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The homeowner tax rebate credit is a one-year program providing direct property tax relief to about 2.5 million eligible homeowners in 2022.
If you qualify, you don't need to do anything; we'll automatically send you a check for the amount of your credit.
If you’re eligible and you haven’t received your check, you generally can expect to receive it between the time that school tax bills are issued and when the school tax payments are due in your community. Our contact center cannot provide you with a specific timeframe.
To be eligible, you must have:
Note: You do not need to calculate your income to receive the homeowner tax rebate credit. We will calculate income for eligibility purposes, and we will issue the credit based on that determination.
The amount of your rebate credit will depend on:
To find the amount you'll receive for the homeowner tax rebate credit:
To understand how we calculated your credit amount, choose which type of homeowner you are:
The amount of your homeowner tax rebate credit cannot be more than the amount of your net school tax liability for the 2022–2023 school year after taking into account your 2022 STAR benefit. For example:
By law, the Tax Department cannot issue a homeowner tax rebate credit for less than $100.
For the homeowner tax rebate credit, income is defined as federal adjusted gross income (FAGI) from two years prior (tax year 2020), modified so that:
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