Conn. Gen. Stat. § 12-47

The estate of any insolvent debtor or deceased person, not distributed or finally disposed of by the Court of Probate and which is required to be set in the list for taxation, may be set in the list in the name of such estate, or of the trustee, administrator or executor thereof, as such, at his option. Such property or any part thereof, when so set in the list, shall be liable for all taxes legally imposed thereon, for one year from the time when they become due.