Plymouth Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions (Clauses 22 to 22F)

The Town of Plymouth grants the veterans’ exemptions of G.L. c. 59, s. 5, clauses 22 to 22F, through its board of assessors. The statute sets them as dollars off the tax bill, $400 under clause 22, $750, $1,250 and $1,500 under 22A to 22C and $1,000 under 22E, and exempts the whole domicile under 22D and 22F; a town can add to them only by accepting a local option, clause 22I, clause 22J or section 5C½. Every figure on this entry carries its source and the day it was read. The Assessors’ Office page prints $600 under clause 22, $1,125 under 22A, $1,875 under 22B, $2,250 under 22C and $1,500 under 22E, each 150 percent of the statutory amount, and full exemption under 22D, 22F and 22H. The page does not say which local option produces the additional half; a uniform 50 percent addition is what either section 5C½ or clause 22J allows, and the town meeting vote behind it was not found. The page asks for two consecutive years’ residence in Massachusetts before filing, as the statute now does. Chapter 115 benefits, the Commonwealth’s needs-based help with rent, food, fuel and medical costs, are applied for through Plymouth Veteran Services. Their amounts are set by the Commonwealth and are the same in every city and town; the statewide chapter 115 entry describes them.