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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6103
January Session, 2021
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Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)
AN ACT CONCERNING PR OPERTY TAX EXEMPTION S FOR
PROPERTY USED FOR CH ARITABLE PURPOSES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subdivision (7) of section 12-81 of the general statutes is 1
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 2
1, 2021, and applicable to assessment years commencing on or after October 1, 3
2021): 4
(7) (A) Subject to the provisions of sections 12-87 and 12-88, the real 5
property of, or held in trust for, a corporation organized exclusively for 6
scientific, educational, literary, historical or charitable purposes or for 7
two or more such purposes and used exclusively for carrying out one or 8
more of such purposes or for the purpose of preserving open space land, 9
as defined in section 12-107b, for any of the uses specified in said section, 10
that is owned by any such corporation, and the personal property of, or 11
held in trust for, any such corporation, provided (i) any officer, member 12
or employee thereof does not receive or at any future time shall not 13
receive any pecuniary profit from the operations thereof, except 14
reasonable compensation for services in effecting one or more of such 15 Raised Bill No. 6103
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purposes or as proper beneficiary of its strictly charitable purposes, and 16
(ii) in 1965, and quadrennially thereafter, a statement shall be filed on or 17
before [the first day of] November first with the assessor or board of 18
assessors of any town, consolidated town and city or consolidated town 19
and borough, in which any of its property claimed to be exempt is 20
situated. Such statement shall be filed on a form provided by such 21
assessor or board of assessors. Such form shall be posted on the Internet 22
web site of such assessor or board of assessors, if applicable. The real 23
property shall be eligible for the exemption regardless of whether it is 24
used by another corporation organized exclusively for scientific, 25
educational, literary, historical or charitable purposes or for two or more 26
such purposes; 27
(B) On and after [July 1, 1967] October 1, 2021, housing subsidized, in 28
whole or in part, by federal, state or local government and housing for 29
persons or families of low and moderate income shall not constitute a 30
charitable purpose under this section. As used in this subdivision, 31
"housing" shall not include real property used for [temporary] housing 32
belonging to, or held in trust for, any corporation organized exclusively 33
for charitable purposes and exempt from taxation for federal income tax 34
purposes, the primary use of which property is one or more of the 35
following: (i) An orphanage; (ii) a drug or alcohol treatment or 36
rehabilitation facility; (iii) housing for persons who are homeless, 37
persons with a mental health disorder, persons with intellectual or 38
physical disability or victims of domestic violence; (iv) housing for ex-39
offenders or for individuals participating in a program sponsored by the 40
state Department of Correction or Judicial Branch; [and] or (v) short-41
term housing operated by a charitable organization where the average 42
length of stay is less than six months. The operation of such housing, 43
including the receipt of any rental payments, by such charitable 44
organization shall be deemed to be an exclusively charitable purpose. 45
For the purposes of this subdivision, payments made by federal, state or 46
local government for the treatment, support or care of individuals 47
housed in the real property described in subparagraphs (B)(i) to (B)(v), 48
inclusive, of this subdivision shall not constitute housing subsidies; 49 Raised Bill No. 6103
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Sec. 2. Section 12-89 of the general statutes is repealed and the 50
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2021, and 51
applicable to assessment years commencing on or after October 1, 2021): 52
The board of assessors of each town, consolidated town and city or 53
consolidated town and borough shall inspect the statements filed with 54
it [and required by] pursuant to sections 12-81, as amended by this act, 55
and 12-87 from scientific, educational, literary, historical, charitable, 56
agricultural and cemetery organizations, and shall determine what part, 57
if any, of the property claimed to be exempt by the organization [shall 58
be] is in fact exempt. [and] The board of assessors shall place a valuation 59
upon [all] any such property [, if any, as is] found to be taxable. [, 60
provided any] Any property acquired by any tax-exempt organization 61
after [the first day of] October first shall first become exempt on the 62
assessment date next succeeding the date of acquisition. In determining 63
what part, if any, of a property claimed to be exempt is in fact exempt, 64
the board of assessors shall consider whether the property is owned or 65
held in trust for a corporation organized exclusively for charitable 66
purposes and exempt from taxation for federal income tax purposes. If 67
the board of assessors determines that property claimed to be exempt is 68
taxable, the board of assessors shall state upon its records the rationale 69
for such determination. Any organization filing a tax-exempt statement, 70
aggrieved at the action of the assessor or board of assessors, may appeal, 71
within the time prescribed by law for such appeals, to the board of 72
assessment appeals. Any such organization claiming to be aggrieved by 73
the action of the board of assessment appeals may, within two months 74
from the time of such action, make application in the nature of an appeal 75
therefrom to the superior court for the judicial district in which such 76
property is situated. 77
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2021, and
applicable to assessment
years commencing on or
after October 1, 2021
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Sec. 2 October 1, 2021, and
applicable to assessment
years commencing on or
after October 1, 2021
12-89
Statement of Purpose:
To require assessors and boards of assessors to post certain property tax
exemption statement forms on such assessors' and boards' Internet web
sites, specify that payments made by federal, state or local governments
for the treatment, support or care of certain individuals shall not
constitute housing subsidies for the purposes of determining what is a
charitable purpose and require boards of assessors to consider whether
certain property claimed to be exempt is owned or held in trust by
federal tax-exempt charitable organizations.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]