07/17/2023 Assessment Community Weekly

Start planning your public education campaigns

If you’re doing a reassessment for 2024, 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.

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 Friday, September 1. Your timely review is very important because we’ll use the sales data to begin the process of calculating 2024 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