Title 12, Title 12: Taxation

Secs. 12-104 to 12-107. Tree-growth land: Certificate by State Forester; taxation; revocation of certificate; when owner may cut wood. Sections 12-104 to 12-107, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 1788–1791; 1963, P.A. 490, S. 13.)

Sec. 12-107a. Declaration of policy. It is hereby declared (1) that it is in the public interest to encourage the preservation of farm land, forest land, open space land and maritime heritage land in order to maintain a readily available source of food and farm products close to …

Sec. 12-107b. Definitions. When used in sections 12-107a to 12-107e, inclusive, and 12-107g: (1) The term “farm land” means any tract or tracts of land, including woodland and wasteland and any underwater farmlands used for aquaculture, constituting a farm unit; (2) The term “for…

Sec. 12-107c. Classification of land as farm land. (a) An owner of land may apply for its classification as farm land on any grand list of a municipality by filing a written application for such classification with the assessor thereof not earlier than thirty days before or later…

Sec. 12-107d. Regulations re evaluation of land as forest land. Implementation of standards and procedures. Certification requirements. Fees. Notice of termination of forest land classification. Application for classification as forest land. Appeal. Report to State Forester. (a) …

Sec. 12-107e. Classification of land as open space land. (a) The planning commission of any municipality, in preparing a plan of conservation and development for such municipality, may designate upon such plan areas which it recommends for preservation as areas of open space land…

Sec. 12-107f. Open space land. (a) Declaration of policy encouraging preservation by tax-exempt organizations. It is hereby found and declared that it is in the public interest to encourage organizations which are tax-exempt for federal income tax purposes to hold open space land…

Sec. 12-107g. Classification of land as marine heritage land. (a) An owner of land may apply for its classification as maritime heritage land, as defined in section 12-107b, on any grand list of a municipality by filing a written application for such classification with the asses…

Sec. 12-108. Stored property as property in transit. Goods, wares and merchandise of a nonresident individual or organization not having an office or place of business in this state, shipped into this state by such nonresident individual or organization and placed in storage in t…

Sec. 12-109. Listing and valuation of tax-exempt property. All property exempted from taxation except public highways, streets and bridges, shall be listed, valued and assessed annually by the assessor of each municipality and such valuation shall be added by the assessor to the …

Sec. 12-110. Sessions of board of assessment appeals. (a) The board of assessment appeals in each town shall meet at least once in the month of September, annually, provided any meeting in the month of September shall be for the sole purpose of hearing appeals related to the asse…

Sec. 12-111. Appeals to board of assessment appeals. (a)(1) Any person, including any lessee of real property whose lease has been recorded as provided in section 47-19 and who is bound under the terms of a lease to pay real property taxes and any person to whom title to such pro…

Sec. 12-112. Limit of time for appeals. No appeal from the doings of the assessors in any town shall be heard or entertained by the board of assessment appeals unless referred to it at one of its meetings during the month of September in the case of an appeal related to motor veh…

Sec. 12-113. When board of assessment appeals may reduce assessment. The board of assessment appeals may reduce the assessment of any person as reflected on the grand list by reducing the valuation, number, quantity or amount of any item of estate therein, or by deleting any item…

Sec. 12-114. Adjustment of assessment by board of assessment appeals. The board of assessment appeals may adjust the assessment of personal property belonging to any person, or the valuation, number, quantity or amount of any item of property reflected therein, even if such perso…

Sec. 12-115. Addition to grand list by board of assessment appeals. The board of assessment appeals in any town or city may, within three months from the date prescribed by law for the completion of its duties, as set forth in section 12-111, add to the grand list of a town any t…

Sec. 12-116. Assessment and taxation under special acts. Wherever under the provisions of any special act relating to the assessment and taxation of real and personal property, such assessment and taxation is based on the actual valuation of such property, such assessment and tax…

Sec. 12-117. Extension of time for completion of duties of assessors and board of assessment appeals. (a) The period prescribed by law for the completion of the duties of any assessor, board of assessors or board of assessment appeals may, for due cause shown, be extended by the …

Sec. 12-117a. Appeals from boards of tax review or boards of assessment appeals. (a)(1) Any person, including any lessee of real property whose lease has been recorded as provided in section 47-19 and who is bound under the terms of such person's lease to pay real property taxes,…

Sec. 12-118. Appeals from Connecticut Appeals Board for Property Valuation. Section 12-118 is repealed, effective July 6, 1995. (1949 Rev., S. 1800; February, 1965, P.A. 65, S. 2; 299; 1967, P.A. 5; 1969, P.A. 318, S. 1; P.A. 74-183, S. 189, 291; P.A. 76-436, S. 165, 681; P.A. 78…

Sec. 12-118a. Validation of pending appeals. Section 12-118a is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1969, P.A. 318, S. 2; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 12-119. Remedy when property wrongfully assessed. When it is claimed that a tax has been laid on property not taxable in the town or city in whose tax list such property was set, or that a tax laid on property was computed on an assessment which, under all the circumstances,…

Sec. 12-119a. Waiver of addition to assessments. Municipal option to reduce addition to assessments. (a) Any municipality may, by ordinance, provide that the assessor or board of assessors, in the case of any amount added to an assessment pursuant to section 12-42, 12-43 or 12-53…

Sec. 12-120. Assessor or board of assessors to send abstract of assessment lists to Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management. The assessor or board of assessors of each town, after the assessment lists have been examined and corrected by the board of assessment appeals, s…

Sec. 12-120a. Annual report from Office of Policy and Management to General Assembly committee on finance, revenue and bonding concerning real and personal property tax data for towns in the state. The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall, annually, not later th…

Sec. 12-120b. Uniform administrative review procedures for certain state-reimbursed property tax exemptions and credits. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Claimant” means a person, company, limited liability company, firm, association, corporation or other business entity having …

Sec. 12-120c. Annual certification from assessor or board of assessors to Office of Policy and Management on amount of certain property tax exemptions. On or before May first, annually, the assessor or board of assessors of each municipality shall certify to the Secretary of the …

Sec. 12-121. Compensation of assessors and boards of assessment appeals. The compensation of assessors and boards of assessment appeals, except in such towns as have an incorporated city within their limits, the boundaries of which city are coterminous with the boundaries of such…

Secs. 12-121a to 12-121d. Personal property exempt from assessment. Sections 12-121a to 12-121d, inclusive, are repealed. (P.A. 73-351, S. 1–4; P.A. 74-334, S. 1–5; P.A. 75-213, S. 50, 53.)

Sec. 12-121e. Reduction in assessment of certain rehabilitated buildings. The assessor of any municipality that has adopted an ordinance pursuant to subparagraph (H)(xv) of subdivision (7) of subsection (c) of section 7-148 may reduce the assessment of any building that has been …

Sec. 12-121f. Validations re assessment lists. (a) An assessment list in any town, city or borough is not invalid as to the taxpayers of the taxing district as a whole because the assessor committed any one or more of the errors or omissions listed in subdivisions (1) to (15), in…

Sec. 12-40. Notice requiring declaration of personal property. The assessors in each town, except as otherwise specially provided by law, shall, on or before the fifteenth day of October annually, post on the signposts therein, if any, or at some other exterior place near the off…

Sec. 12-40a. Committee for training, examination and certification of assessment personnel. Fees. Certification by Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management. (a) There shall be a committee for the purpose of establishing a program and procedures for the training, examinati…

Sec. 12-41. Filing of declaration. (a) Definitions. “Municipality”, whenever used in this section, includes each town, consolidated town and city, and consolidated town and borough. (b) Motor Vehicles. No person required by law to file an annual declaration of personal property s…

Sec. 12-42. Extension for filing declaration. Assessor preparation of declaration when none filed. (a) Any person required by law to file an annual declaration of personal property may request a filing extension with the assessor of the municipality. Such request shall be made on…

Sec. 12-43. Property of nonresidents. (a) Each owner of tangible personal property located in any town for three months or more during the assessment year immediately preceding any assessment day, who is a nonresident of such town, shall file a declaration of such personal proper…

Sec. 12-44. Penalty addition by certain municipal associations. Twenty-five per cent of the amount of the valuation of any property taxable by any city, borough, school district, fire district or other municipal association which bases its grand list upon that of the town in whic…

Sec. 12-45. Return to assessors of personalty in trust. Each sole trustee residing in this state, having in his hands personal property liable to taxation belonging to the trust estate, shall make return thereof to the assessors of the town where he resides. If such personal prop…

Sec. 12-46. Penalty for neglect by trustees, guardians or conservators. If any trustee or trustees, guardian or conservator, whose duty it is to make such return or cause the same to be made, neglects so to do, he or they shall forfeit to the town in which such return should have…

Sec. 12-47. Listing of estates of insolvent debtors and decedents. The estate of any insolvent debtor or deceased person, not distributed or finally disposed of by the Court of Probate and which is required to be set in the list for taxation, may be set in the list in the name of…

Sec. 12-48. Tenant for life or years to list property. When one is entitled to the ultimate enjoyment of real or personal estate liable to taxation, and another is entitled to the use of the same as an estate for life or for a term of years by gift or devise and not by contract, …

Sec. 12-49. Lists to be verified. The assessors in each town shall require each person giving in a tax list to sign, date and deliver to them a statement upon such list in the following form; and each person giving in a tax list shall sign, date and deliver to the assessors a sta…

Sec. 12-50. List may be filed by spouse, attorney or agent. The list of taxable property required to be filed annually by any taxpayer may be filed by the husband or wife or by an authorized agent or attorney of a taxpayer. Such husband or wife or agent or attorney shall make oat…

Sec. 12-51. List may be filed by holder of encumbrance. The holder of any encumbrance on, or interest in, any real estate which is subject to taxation and the owner of which has failed to give in the list thereof for the purposes of taxation, in the manner and within the time pre…

Sec. 12-52. Assessor not to accept defective list or neglect to return list. Penalty. Any assessor who accepts the list of any person, not made and perfected according to law, shall forfeit all compensation for acting as assessor and, for each list so accepted, shall be fined not…

Sec. 12-53. Addition of omitted property. Audits. Penalty. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Omitted property” means property for which complete information is not included in the declaration required to be filed by law with respect to (A) the total number and type of all it…