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Danbury residents urge council to raise income threshold, drop five-year residency and clarify draft elder tax-relief ordinances
Summary
At a Jan. 27 public hearing, residents including a longtime advocate and a CPA urged the Danbury City Council to increase a proposed $10,000 income threshold to $20,000, remove a five-year residency requirement, and clarify documentation and notice procedures for elderly and disabled tax relief.
Danbury — Residents at a public hearing Monday urged the City Council to revise proposed changes to several elderly tax-relief ordinances, arguing the draft would reduce eligibility and leave some longtime recipients worse off.
Charlie Sotero, a lifelong Danbury resident, said the draft ordinance language contains a $10,000 figure "which gives you $10,000 above the state recommendation," and warned that "people are gonna be losing their status" under the new thresholds. He recommended increasing that figure to $20,000, removing any new five-year residency requirement, allowing certain Social Security treatment adjustments, and eliminating sunset provisions that could let the benefit lapse without further…
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