Veterans' Tax Credits

Optional Veterans' Tax Credit

The current credit amount is $750.

  • New applications must be submitted between January 1 and April 15.
  • Applications to be completed in the Assessor's office.
  • Must provide proof of residency (license), DD-214 / 215, and if the property is in a trust, a copy of the trust.

All Veterans' Tax Credit

The current credit amount is $750.

  • New applications must be submitted between January 1 and April 15.
  • Applications to be completed in the Assessor's office.
  • Must provide proof of residency (license), DD-214 / 215, and if the property is in a trust, a copy of the trust.

Total & Permanent Service-Connected Disability Credit

Beginning tax year 2026 credit amount will be $5,000.

  • New applications must be submitted between January 1 and April 15.
  • Applications to be completed in the Assessor's office.
  • Must provide proof of residency (license), DD-214 / 215, and if the property is in a trust, a copy of the trust.
  • Must provide a disability letter from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, detailing Veteran is Totally & Permanently Disabled due to a service-connected disability and that the recipient is being paid at a specified rate due to un-employability, according to RSA 72:35.

Surviving Spouse Veterans' Credit

The current credit amount is $2,000.

  • New applications must be submitted between January 1 and April 15.
  • Applications to be completed in the Assessor's office.
  • Must provide proof of residency (license), DD-214 / 215, and if the property is in a trust, a copy of the trust.
  • Applicant must provide a letter from the respective branch of service stating death during active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces.

Certain Disabled Veterans' Exemption

Full exemption of 100% per RSA 72-36-a.

Any person, who is discharged from military service of the United States and who meets the veteran eligibility criteria established by RSA 21:50, and who owns a home which has been specially adapted by the Veterans Administration through an approved Special Adapted Housing (SAH) or Special Home Adaptation (SHA) grant or owns a home that has been specially adapted and has been acquired using proceeds from the sale of such an SAH or SHA home, the person or person's surviving spouse, as defined in RSA 72:29, V, shall be exempt from all taxation on said homestead, provided that:

I. The person:

(a) Is 100 percent permanently and totally disabled as prescribed in 38 C.F.R. 3.340 Total and permanent total ratings and unemployability; or
(b) Is a double amputee of the upper or lower extremities or any combination thereof, or paraplegic, as the result of service connection; or

(c) Has blindness of both eyes with visual acuity of 5/200 or less, as the result of service connection.

II. Satisfactory proof of such service connection disability is furnished to the assessors.