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Department of Taxation and Finance

07/29/2024 Request for 2024-2025 school tax rates

In addition to our annual request for school tax rates, we’re including additional helpful information below.

Dear School Business Officials,

Each year we ask you to provide your school tax rates to our department as early as possible so that we can process STAR credits for the homeowners in your district. In addition, below you will find links to online information that may be helpful to you and your district.

Please provide your 2024-2025 tax rates by August 12

If your school district issues tax bills on or around September 1. Please provide us with your 2024-2025 tax rates by Monday, August 12. We will use the tax rates to calculate STAR credits for homeowners in your district.

If your rates will not be finalized by that date:

  • please provide us with your expected rates by August 12, and
  • include in your email the date that your board will meet to finalize the rates.

How to provide the rates

  1. Use the Tax Rate Data Spreadsheet, which includes instructions.
  2. Enter school tax rates per $1,000 of assessed value for each municipal segment in your school district, excluding the library levy, if any.
  3. Indicate if the tax rates are expected or final.
  4. Send your completed spreadsheet to school.taxrates@tax.ny.gov.

If your school tax rates will be provided by someone other than your school business official (for example, in Suffolk County, the final tax rates are provided by each town), please forward this request to the appropriate person as soon as possible.

If you provide expected tax rates and the final rates differ from the expected rates. please send an amended spreadsheet to us.

Questions? Email school.taxrates@tax.ny.gov.

Note: In addition to this communication, our staff will send emails individually to each school business officials. After we receive your final tax rates, we will not contact you again on this topic. Thank you for your prompt assistance. 

School districts and STAR

For more about school district roles related to STAR, see the 2024 STAR Program Implementation Guide.

Other helpful STAR links:

Equalization Rates for School Tax Apportionment

If you haven’t used our equalization rates lookup tool lately, it’s particularly helpful for school districts that levy taxes among multiple municipalities. See Rates for School Apportionment.

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