Plainfield Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions

The assessor’s exemptions sheet requires a veteran who served more than 90 days in wartime, or who is disabled, to have recorded an honorable discharge with the Town Clerk by October 1 of any year to receive an exemption against the July tax bill. It prints no amount; the statutory wartime exemption is $1,000 of assessed value under 12-81(19), and a veteran with a VA rating receives $2,000 to $3,500 under 12-81(20) on a rating filed with the assessor. The sheet’s “Veteran’s Additional Exemption” increases the exemption for veterans who meet the necessary income requirements, filed with the assessor by October 1 of any year and reapplied every other year with proof of income. That is the state additional exemption of 12-81g(a), twice the exemption already received, for income under the 12-81l limit, $46,300 single and $56,500 married for the 2026 grand list. The sheet also prints an active duty exemption on one passenger motor vehicle for a Connecticut resident serviceperson, and, outside the veterans’ programs, $1,000 for Social Security disability, $3,000 for legal blindness and a full motor vehicle abatement for specially equipped vehicles applied through town ordinance. Plainfield answered OLR’s 2023 survey by reporting no municipal-option exemption of any kind, and no Plainfield ordinance granting one was found; the town’s site posts its charter but no code of ordinances.