07/11/2022 Assessment Community Weekly
Start planning your public education campaigns
In addition to beaches and boating, summer provides an opportunity to start planning for upcoming public education efforts. If you’re doing a reassessment for 2023, it’s not too early to start planning the various ways you’ll help your citizens to understand—and even appreciate—your efforts.
We recommend that you work closely with your ORPTS Customer Service Team to plan and implement your public education campaign. To get started, review our Educating the public webpage, which we recently updated.
Review your sales reports
Now that most of you have finalized your rolls, this is a great time to begin reviewing your sales reports in the Online Assessment Community. The deadline to transmit sales corrections is September 2, so don’t delay. Your timely review is very important because we’ll use the sales data to begin the process of calculating 2023 equalization rates and RARs.
For more information, see Sales usability criteria.
On the arms-length report, there is a column which indicates whether the sale is COD/RAR usable. If you find a mistake or need to correct a sale, follow these instructions:
- RPS users: within your RPS file, make the correction and then re-transmit it by going to Standard Reports > Sales > Sales Transmittal Report. Please email the RPS035 to ORPTS.saleint@tax.ny.gov. The ORPTS sales database and online sales reports will be updated with the corrections.
- If you submit paper reports, use Form RP-5217 ACR, Sale Correction Form. Email the completed forms to ORPTS.saleint@tax.ny.gov or mail them to:
NYS TAX DEPARTMENT – ORPTS
ATTN: DATA MANAGEMENT UNIT
W A HARRIMAN STATE CAMPUS – BLDG. 8A
ALBANY, NY 12227-0801
Upcoming STAR reports
- Final Roll Corrections Report (Report #7): late next week
- STAR Credit Eligible Report (Report #8): first week of August
Judicial cases
New Judicial cases:
- Gunsalus v. County of Ontario
- NYCTL 2018-A Trust v Keshia Realty Corp.
- NYCTL 1998-2 Trust v College Equity Fund Inc.