{"id":12537,"date":"2026-07-29T20:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T00:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=12537"},"modified":"2026-07-29T20:43:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T00:43:56","slug":"the-veteran-tax-credit-dispute-resolution-4-6-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=12537","title":{"rendered":"The Veteran Tax Credit Dispute Resolution, 4\/6\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4\/6\/2026 Town Council debate\u00a0concerning the implementation and legality of an increased\u00a0veterans tax credit. Councilor Bouchard cites a\u00a0legal opinion\u00a0suggesting the town cannot apply the credit retroactively, potentially rendering the current program vulnerable to\u00a0court challenges. Conversely, Councilor Faber argues that according to the\u00a0Department of Revenue Administration (DRA), the tax break should have taken effect immediately as originally intended. Town Manager Shaun Mulholand stated that DRA opinion is contrary to the towns legal opinion. The discussion highlights a significant\u00a0communication breakdown\u00a0between the town manager, the assessor, and council members regarding administrative timelines. Ultimately, the leaders are grappling with\u00a0conflicting regulatory advice\u00a0while attempting to rectify a procedural mistake that impacted local veterans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Veteran Tax Credit Dispute Resolution, 4\/6\/2026\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yxVuuvn5tLI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Related Posts<\/strong>:<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=12533\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=12533\">The Veterans Tax Credit Implementation Dispute, 5\/18\/2026<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=12537\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=12537\">The Veteran Tax Credit Dispute Resolution, 4\/6\/2026<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10655\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10655\">Video: Increasing the Veterans Tax Credit to $5000?, 5\/19\/2025<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=11406\">Video: Londonderry Talk &#8211; Ron Dunn Candidate for Town Council, 2\/22\/2026<\/a> <br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=1233\">Veterans Tax Increases to $750, 6\/1\/2022<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4\/6\/2026 Town Council debate\u00a0concerning the implementation and legality of an increased\u00a0veterans tax credit. Councilor Bouchard cites a\u00a0legal opinion\u00a0suggesting the town cannot apply the credit retroactively, potentially rendering the current program vulnerable to\u00a0court challenges. Conversely, Councilor Faber argues that according to the\u00a0Department of Revenue Administration (DRA), the tax break should have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12544,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537\/revisions\/12544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}