Shelton Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions

Shelton’s assessor page gives veterans who served in wartime, or who have a disability rating from the Veterans’ Administration, the veteran’s exemption off the assessment of their property, on an honorable discharge filed with the City/Town Clerk by September 30. Applications with the Assessor’s Office run from February 1 to October 1. The page prints no amounts or income limits. The city’s web site moved from www.cityofshelton.org, which now serves an Outlook login, to www.shelton-ct.gov. Code § 15-2, adopted as Ord. No. 484 on October 10, 1985, has the Board of Aldermen approve the additional exemption of $1,000 for veterans of limited income as set forth in C.G.S. 12-81f, with any future increase requiring further board approval. As 12-81f(c) grants the additional exemption to a veteran’s surviving spouse entitled under 12-81(22), a widow or widower qualifying under that subdivision receives the $1,000 exemption under the section. Code § 15-2.1, adopted as Ord. No. 615 on March 14, 1991 under 12-81h, exempts in full one motor vehicle specially equipped for a veteran’s disability, applied for annually by the assessment date. OLR’s 2023 survey records Shelton as offering the 12-81kk primary-residence exemption, 10 percent of the assessed value of the dwelling of a veteran with federal adjusted gross income of $50,100 or less. Shelton’s code, current through October 2024, carries no such section, and the assessor page does not mention it. Ask the assessor.