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Trumbull Additional Veterans’ Exemption and Unemployability Dwelling Exemption

Trumbull’s Code § 18-30 gives a $20,000 additional exemption to a wartime veteran and $3,000 to a veteran with a disability rating, under the state income limit, and § 18-31, adopted October 6, 2025, gives the dwelling exemption to a TDIU-rated veteran, capped at two acres and the town’s median residential assessment.

Also called: property tax, 12-81g, veterans exemption, assessor, Trumbull.

For: Veteran or service member, survivor.

Where it applies

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Code § 18-30, citing Public Act 16-191, gives a veteran entitled under C.G.S. 12-81(19) an additional exemption of $20,000 off assessed value, a veteran entitled under 12-81(20) an additional $3,000, and a surviving spouse entitled under 12-81(22) an additional $20,000, in each case for income not more than the 12-81l maximum. It took effect for assessment years from October 1, 2016, with the increased amounts from October 1, 2017, and was last amended by Res. No. TC26-134 on June 5, 2017. Code § 18-31, adopted by Res. No. TC30-172 on October 6, 2025 for assessment years from October 1, 2025, enacts the 2025 veterans’ acts: the dwelling exemption of 12-81(83)(F) for the surviving spouse of a veteran rated 100 percent permanently and totally disabled who died after January 1, 1941 and before October 1, 2024, the 12-81qq exemption for the surviving spouse of a person killed in action, and, in lieu of the 12-81(20) exemption, the 12-81pp dwelling exemption for a veteran rated totally disabled through individual unemployability. The town limits the land component to two acres and every exemption under the section to the median assessed value of residential property in Trumbull. The assessor’s veteran exemptions page prints a $3,000 regular veteran’s exemption, applied to real estate or a motor vehicle, on a DD-214 filed with the Town Clerk by September 30. That is the statutory wartime exemption of 12-81(19) with the additional exemption of 12-81g(a), which doubles it for income under the 12-81l limit; the 2026 grand list limits are $46,300 single and $56,500 married. The page links the D-2 form and OPM’s September 8, 2025 memo on the annual January 1 filing for the 12-81(83) exemption, and cites the 2025 and 2024 house bills behind the TDIU and permanent and total exemptions.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Trumbull Additional Veterans’ Exemption and Unemployability Dwelling Exemption
GateRule
Wartime service or a VA rating, set by state lawThe exemptions rest on C.G.S. 12-81(19) to (26): 90 days of wartime service with a qualifying discharge filed with the town clerk, or a VA disability rating. Amounts above the base turn on rating and income. The rating filter does not hide this entry.

Figures

Each figure is dated with the day it was read. A local figure moves whenever the statute or the local ordinance does, so confirm it with the office that grants it before you rely on it. Statute verified gives the day the weekly section check last found the statute standing on the legislature’s own code site; a figure without it rests on a statute the check does not read yet.

Dated figures for Trumbull Additional Veterans’ Exemption and Unemployability Dwelling Exemption
FigureAmountRead from
Local additional exemption, as Trumbull Code § 18-30 sets it$20,000 for a 12-81(19) veteran, $3,000 for a 12-81(20) veteran, $20,000 for a surviving spouse under 12-81(22), for income under the state limitC.G.S. § 12-81fTrumbull Code of Ordinances § 18-30Read
Unemployability (TDIU) dwelling exemption, as Trumbull Code § 18-31 sets itThe dwelling in lieu of the 12-81(20) exemption, up to two acres of land and the median assessed value of Trumbull residential propertyC.G.S. § 12-81ppTrumbull Code of Ordinances § 18-31Read
Regular veteran’s exemption, as Trumbull’s page prints it$3,000 off assessment, on real estate or a motor vehicle, for a DD-214 filed with the Town Clerk by September 30C.G.S. § 12-81gTown of Trumbull, Veteran ExemptionsRead

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