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Department of Taxation and Finance

12/09/2024 Assessment Community Weekly

Reminder: Remove STAR credit identifiers from your data files

We determine eligibility for the STAR credit annually. It is not safe to assume that someone who received the credit in one year will receive it again the following year. Therefore, the markers that identify STAR credit recipients should not be carried over from year to year.

Moreover, STAR credits are income tax credits, and the names of credit recipients are not subject to public disclosure. While the law allows us to provide you with lists of STAR credit recipients, it also states that the information contained on these lists must be considered confidential and may not be subject to further disclosure under FOIL or otherwise. If STAR credit markers are left on the data file after school tax bills have been run, it could result in the inadvertent public disclosure of this confidential data.

Accordingly, you are advised to remove all STAR credit markers from your data file after school tax bills are run to ensure that no inadvertent releases of this confidential data occur. The procedure for doing so depends on the software you use.

RPSV4 Users: After school tax bills have been processed, users of ORPTS’s Tax Bill Print Utility should purge the STAR credit markers from their database. If you don’t remove the markers, a notation that only applies to STAR check recipients may inappropriately display on the town and county tax roll. That would make it possible for members of the public to identify STAR credit recipients simply by looking at those rolls.

To remove the markers, browse to the RPSV4 Updates section of the Online Assessment Community, and follow the instructions in the release notes for the STAR_credit_purge.exe file.

Non-RPSV4 Users: Users of third-party bill printing programs should review their processes with their vendor to ensure that it is not possible to identify the STAR credit recipients from a record that is accessible to the public.

The IVP Tool: Open 24/7/365

You may be getting ready to take off a few days over the holidays, but the IVP Tool isn't taking a break. 

Maybe you just received an Enhanced STAR application from a snowbird. There’s no need to wait to enter the property into the IVP Tool; it’s always there for you!

Would you rather transmit IVP forms to ORPTS for data entry? Easy! See How to transmit IVP forms to the Tax Department. Just remember the cardinal rule: Regular email is not a secure way to transmit anything with a Social Security number. So use the secure email option described on that webpage.

Key IVP links:

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