Wethersfield Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions

The assessor’s exemptions and tax credits page gives a veteran of 90 days of wartime active duty, on a DD-214 filed with the Town Clerk before October 1, “a $3,000 plus an additional $1,500 exemption” for the following July’s tax bill. A veteran with a VA rating on Form 20-5455a receives $9,000 for a 10 to 25 percent rating, $11,250 for 26 to 50 percent, $13,500 for 51 to 75 percent and $15,750 for 76 to 100 percent or age 65 with at least a 10 percent rating; the page describes half of each as the state additional exemption effective on the 1986 list. The statutory amounts are $1,000 and $2,000 to $3,500, so the page’s figures are those raised by the revaluation increases of 12-62g, though not on the ratio the higher tiers show. Veterans of low income qualify for an additional exemption of twice the regular exemption, the state program of 12-81g(a), for total income under $56,500 married or $46,300 single including a surviving spouse, applying February 1 to October 1; a veteran VA rates 100 percent disabled qualifies at $21,000 married or $18,000 single excluding Social Security. The page also prints a local option: “Local Option by Town of Wethersfield grants an additional $7,000 exemption to vets with an income level below $56,500 for a married couple, or $46,300 for a single” person, filed February 1 to October 1. That is the 12-81f additional exemption at the state limit. A parallel local option adds $2,000 for a blind claimant. No Wethersfield ordinance adopting either was found and the town did not answer OLR’s 2023 survey; ask the assessor.