09/30/2024 Assessment Community Weekly

Last call! Oct. 1 is the deadline to apply for Aid for Cyclical Reassessments

If you conducted a 2024 reassessment and your final roll date is July 1, the deadline to apply for state aid is tomorrow, October 1. For details and application forms, see Aid for Cyclical Reassessments.

Reminder: Assessor/Director Hotline downtime

From noon on Monday, September 30 through Wednesday, October 2 at 1:00 p.m., our Assessor/Director Hotline will not be available. During this time, please leave us a voicemail, and we will respond to you by close of business on Thursday, October 3.

If you have an urgent matter, please email Assessor.Hotline@tax.ny.gov and note that it is urgent in the subject line.

When will the STAR fact sheet for new homeowners be updated for 2025?

We encourage local officials and real estate professionals to make our STAR fact sheet available to new homeowners. Doing so helps remind new homeowners to register for the STAR credit.

Bear in mind that we don’t update the handout for the following year until January. This is because homeowners are still registering for the 2024 STAR credit through the end of the calendar year.

Unlike the STAR exemption and other property tax exemptions, you do not need to own your home on taxable status date to be eligible for the STAR credit. Instead, you must own your home and it must be your primary residence as of the last day to pay school taxes without interest or penalty.

Some localities that don’t use the standard assessment calendar have school tax due dates as late as mid-January. Therefore, the online registration for the STAR credit will continue to ask for 2022 income information through the end of the calendar year.  

We’ll release the updated handout for the 2025 STAR credit in early January.

Judicial cases

New Judicial cases:

• Pooh Bear 59, LLC v Tax Commn. of the City of N.Y
• Rivercross Tenants' Corp. v Tax Commn. of the City of N.Y.