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12/16/2024 RPS Online Surveys and Assessment Community Weekly

RPS Online surveys now available

Please take a moment to complete five new RPS Online mini surveys (only two to four questions each). Your feedback is invaluable to the ongoing development of RPS Online. We’re listening!

Please complete the surveys by January 10.

Surveys:

  • Custom Reports: Please provide input on your frequency of use, categories of data used, obstacles, and improvement opportunities.
  • Custom Letters: Please provide input on your frequency of use, size of labels needed, what you use custom labels for, obstacles, and improvement opportunities.
  • Custom Labels: Please provide input on your frequency of use, topics of letters, obstacles, and improvement opportunities.
  • Custom Batch Update: Please provide input on your frequency of use, topics of letters, obstacles, and improvement opportunities.
  • Update Utility: Please provide input on your frequency of use, categories of data used, obstacles, and recommendations for improvement opportunities.

The RPS Online Constituents Group will review the results of the surveys and make recommendations to ORPTS and the RPS Online Project Team.

Many thanks to the members of the group who helped to develop the surveys.

If you have questions or input about RPS Online, please send them to RPSOnline@tax.ny.gov. We will take your feedback into consideration as we continue to develop the system, and we will use your questions to build a frequently asked questions webpage for the assessment community.

Updates to Form RP-466-a-vol and the Assessor Manual now available

We’ve updated Form RP-466-a-vol, Application for Volunteer Firefighters/Ambulance Workers Exemption to reflect Chapter 372 of the Laws of 2024. The new law now provides a local option for municipalities and school districts to offer the exemption to volunteers who live in their jurisdiction but serve in a neighboring city, village, town, county, or school district.

We also updated the accompanying Assessor Manual webpage to reflect the law change.

Deadline extended to January 8: Tax Department seeking experienced real property tax professional for new job opening

The Tax Department’s Office of Tax Policy and Analysis (OTPA) is hiring a Tax Policy Analyst 1. The individual hired will assist in evaluating the effects of proposed or enacted tax law and regulatory changes on taxpayers, stakeholders, the state economy, and the state fiscal plan.

This individual will work closely with ORPTS on various aspects of property tax policy, research, and legislation.

Interested candidates must have:

  • a bachelor’s degree, and
  • two years of experience conducting research studies requiring the analysis and interpretation of government policy issues and the preparation of written reports.

A master’s degree in public administration, public affairs, policy sciences, political science, government, or a related field may be substituted for one year of the general experience.

Two years of experience in assessment or real property tax administration is preferred.

For details, see the job posting. Applications are now due by January 8.

New Judicial case

We've added Matter of Peaceful Val. Hous. Dev. Fund Corp. v Town of Johnsburg to new Judicial cases.

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