Title 12, Title 12: Taxation

Sec. 12-146b. Withholding of municipal payments for failure to pay property taxes. Any municipality, as defined in subsection (a) of section 12-41, may withhold any payment, or portion thereof, due to any business enterprise pursuant to any contract entered into on or after Octob…

Secs. 12-146c and 12-146d. Payments by residents in the armed forces called to active service for military action in Iraq or Afghanistan. Payments by residents who are spouses domiciled with members of the armed forces called to active service for military action in Iraq. Section…

Sec. 12-146e. Payments by residents in the armed forces called to active service who are serving outside the state. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 12-146, a municipality shall not charge or collect interest on any property tax or any installment or part thereof that is…

Sec. 12-146f. Municipal option to waive interest accrued during periods on delinquent property taxes owed by social or recreational club. Notwithstanding the provisions of the general statutes or of any special act, municipal charter or home rule ordinance, any municipality may, …

Sec. 12-147. Payment and deposit of moneys collected by collector. Treasurer to examine books. Except as otherwise provided by law, each tax collector shall, on or before the tenth day of each month, pay to the treasurer of the municipality all moneys collected by him previous to…

Sec. 12-148. Identification of taxpayers. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general statute or special act, the tax collector of any municipality may use names and numbers or numbers only to identify the persons from whom moneys are collected each month in accordance with…

Sec. 12-149. Lists of taxpayers to be preserved until settlement with collector. Section 12-149 is repealed, effective October 1, 2013. (1949 Rev., S. 1830; P.A. 13-276, S. 43.)

Sec. 12-150. Penalty. Any person who violates any provision of section 12-134, 12-147 or 12-153 shall forfeit to the municipality where such violation occurs the sum of one hundred dollars. (1949 Rev., S. 1831; P.A. 13-276, S. 26.) History: P.A. 13-276 eliminated references to Se…

Sec. 12-151. Record-receipt books. Section 12-151 is repealed, effective October 1, 2013. (1949 Rev., S. 1832; P.A. 77-614, S. 139, 610; P.A. 79-610, S. 3, 47; P.A. 13-276, S. 43.)

Sec. 12-152. Tax on portion of property assessed as a whole. The assessors of any town in which property is located, a portion of which has been conveyed since the date of its assessment, shall, upon request of the owner of such portion, place a valuation thereon, and the tax col…

Sec. 12-153. Receipts for partial payments in cases of transfer. Whenever a partial payment is made on any tax account because of the transfer of title of part of any property represented by such account, the collector shall, if requested, indicate on such partial payment receipt…

Sec. 12-154. Proceedings against collector for failure to pay taxes collected or to perform duties. If any collector of taxes fails to pay taxes collected within the time limited by law or by the community imposing such tax, any judge of the Superior Court, on application of the …

Sec. 12-155. Demand and levy for the collection of taxes and water or sanitation charges. (a) If any person fails to pay any tax, or fails to pay any water or sanitation charges within thirty days after the due date, the collector or the collector's duly appointed agent shall mak…

Sec. 12-156. Sale of equity or particular estate under tax levy. Section 12-156 is repealed, effective July 6, 1995, and applicable to tax sale notices which are posted, filed or published on or after that date. (1949 Rev., S. 1837; P.A. 95-228, S. 14, 15.)

Sec. 12-157. Method of selling real estate for taxes. (a) When a collector levies one or more tax warrants on real estate, he or she shall prepare notices thereof, containing the name of the taxpayer, a legal description of the real property or citation to an instrument in the la…

Sec. 12-158. Form of collector's deed. Liability of municipalities for breach of warranty. (a) The deed given by any collector for real estate sold by him for taxes shall be in substance in the form following: Know all men by these presents, that, whereas the (here insert the nam…

Sec. 12-159. Collector's deed as evidence. Irregularities. Any deed, or the certified copy of the record of any deed, purporting to be executed by a tax collector and similar, or in substance similar, to the above, shall be prima facie evidence of a valid title in the grantee to …

Sec. 12-159a. Court orders in actions to contest validity of collector's deed or to enjoin tax sale. (a) In any action brought to prove the invalidity of a collector's deed or enjoin tax sale proceedings, other than an action based on fraud, the court shall, if the complaining pa…

Sec. 12-159b. Time for action contesting validity of collector's deed. No action alleging the invalidity of a collector's deed, substantially, in the form provided in section 12-158, on any grounds other than fraud, shall be brought by any person except within one year from the d…

Sec. 12-160. Poor debtor's oath. Section 12-160 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 1841; 1971, P.A. 11, S. 2.)

Sec. 12-161. Collection by suit. All taxes properly assessed shall become a debt due from the person, persons or corporation against whom they are respectively assessed to the town, city, district or community in whose favor they are assessed, and may be, in addition to the other…

Sec. 12-161a. In proceedings by municipality to collect delinquent taxes on personal property, owner shall pay court costs, appraiser's fees and attorneys' fees incurred. In the institution of proceedings by any municipality to enforce collection of any delinquent tax on personal…

Sec. 12-162. Alias tax warrant. Service of warrants upon financial institutions. Request for information. (a) Any collector of taxes, in the execution of tax warrants, shall have the same authority as state marshals have in executing the duties of their office, and any constable …

Sec. 12-163. Jeopardy collection of taxes. Written notice. (a) If, between the assessment date and the tax due date, any tax collector, after exercising due diligence, determines that the collection of any tax will be jeopardized by delay, he shall, subject to the provisions of t…

Sec. 12-163a. Receivership of rents for the collection of delinquent taxes. (a) Any municipality may petition the Superior Court or a judge thereof, for appointment of a receiver of the rents or payments for use and occupancy for any property for which the owner, agent, lessor or…

Sec. 12-164. Tax uncollectible after fifteen years. Interest on improvement liens. (a) No payment of taxes shall be enforced by any collector or other proper officer against any person, persons or corporation against which they are respectively levied except within fifteen years …

Sec. 12-165. Municipal suspense tax book. Each municipality shall have a suspense tax book. At least once in each year each collector of taxes in each municipality shall deliver to the board of finance or other similar board by whatever name called or, if no such board exists, to…

Sec. 12-166. Powers and duties of collector. Unless the context otherwise requires, “tax”, wherever used in this section, includes each property tax and each installment and part thereof due to a municipality, as such tax may have been increased by interest, penalties, fees and c…

Sec. 12-167. Reports of tax collectors. Each tax collector, at the end of each fiscal year of his town, city, borough, district or other municipality, shall forthwith deliver to the board of finance or other similar board by whatever name called or, if no such board exists, to th…

Sec. 12-167a. Affidavit concerning facts within personal knowledge of affiant re giving of notice of tax sales. Recording and indexing. A tax collector or his agent, or a grantee of a tax collector's deed, or the heirs, successors or assigns of such grantee, may execute and swear…

Sec. 12-168. Tax collector not personally liable in the absence of negligence or wilful misconduct. Whenever used herein, the “municipality” has the meaning given to it in section 12-141 and “tax moneys” include the receipts from each property tax or assessment, and each installm…

Sec. 12-169. Payment of taxes due on Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday. When the final day for payment of any tax or any installment thereof occurs on Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday, payment may be made without interest or penalty on the following business day. (1949 Rev., S…

Sec. 12-169a. Motor vehicle property tax check-off for local scholarship fund. (a) A municipality, by ordinance adopted by its legislative body, may establish a local scholarship fund to provide financial assistance for postsecondary education for residents of the municipality. (…

Sec. 12-169b. Addition of municipal expenses to property taxes for real estate violating health, safety or housing codes. If a municipality does not file a lien under any provisions of the general statutes to recover costs for the inspection, repair, demolition, removal or other …

Sec. 12-170. Penalty for official misconduct. Each assessor, member of the board of assessment appeals, selectman, committee or collector, who does any unlawful act or omits to do any necessary act connected with the levy, assessment or collection of any tax, shall forfeit fifty …