West Hartford Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions

The Assessment Office’s notice for the 2025 grand list, for applications from February 3 to October 1, 2025, gives the local additional exemption the Town Council adopted as an assessment reduction of $10,000 or 10 percent of assessed value, whichever is greater, for income up to $70,200 single or $80,100 married. It gives the state additional exemption’s limits as $45,200 and $55,100, and $18,000 and $21,000 of adjusted gross income for a veteran rated 100 percent. VA disability payments do not count, and both programs are renewed every two years. Code § 161-13, adopted in 1988 and last amended on October 14, 2014, authorizes the C.G.S. 12-81f exemption for a wartime veteran and spouse whose income meets the state limit or exceeds it by no more than $25,000, at the greater of $10,000 or 10 percent of assessed value, and from the October 1, 2014 grand list the 12-81g(b) option for a veteran rated 100 percent. The notice’s local limits are the state’s 2025 limits plus $25,000. OLR’s 2023 survey recorded West Hartford as offering 12-81g(b) but not 12-81f, which the code and the notice both show it offers. The notice prints the subsection (a) limits for a veteran rated 100 percent, not the subsection (b) limits of $21,000 single and $24,000 married. Ask the assessor which applies. Code § 161-7 exempts a disabled veteran’s specially equipped vehicle.