The Barnegat Township Committee looks to be the lead agency in urging the governor of New Jersey and the state Legislature to increase the property tax deduction for veterans and surviving spouses to $500. That would double the current amount of $250.

In a resolution approved by the committee last week, officials said New Jersey residents “suffer from the highest property taxes in the country” and “the residents of Barnegat owe everything we have in this great country to our veterans.”