Stonington Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions

The Assessment Department’s veterans brochure requires residency by the October 1 assessment date and an honorable discharge filed by September 30, and sets the exemption at $4,000. The disability schedule it prints is $8,000 for a 10 to 25 percent rating, $10,000 for 26 to 50 percent, $12,000 for 51 to 75 percent and $14,000 for 76 to 100 percent or age 65 and over, which it marks as amended by Public Act 19-171. The statutory amounts are $1,000 under 12-81(19) and $2,000 to $3,500 under 12-81(20); the brochure’s higher figures are those amounts raised by the revaluation increases of 12-62g, and the same ratio holds across every tier. The brochure adds that a qualified veteran is automatically entitled to an additional exemption, twice the exemption if income-qualified, with income limits it prints as $45,200 single and $55,100 married, the 12-81l amounts for the 2025 grand list; a biennial application is required. A veteran rated 100 percent permanently and totally disabled has the dwelling exemption of 12-81(83), applied to the dwelling or, if the veteran owns no real estate, one motor vehicle, claimed annually by January 1. OLR’s 2023 survey recorded Stonington as offering the 12-81h exemption of one specially equipped motor vehicle and the 12-81kk primary-residence exemption, 10 percent of assessed value for a veteran with adjusted gross income of $50,100 or less. Stonington’s brochure mentions neither, and no Stonington ordinance was found: the town’s code is on no host that could be read. Ask the assessor which options apply.