06/30/2025 Assessment Community Weekly
The 2025 STAR credit season has begun!
We’ve started issuing 2025 STAR credits in municipalities with early school tax due dates. We’ll issue more than one million STAR credits this year to homeowners prior to their school tax due dates.
To see when credits will begin going out in your area, visit our STAR Credit Delivery Schedule.
If you receive questions from homeowners about the STAR credit, direct them to our STAR frequently asked questions (FAQs). They can also use the Property Tax Credit Lookup Tool to see—in real time—if their credit has been issued.
Reminder: STAR Reports available
Before finalizing your final assessment roll, remember to:
- Remove the STAR exemption from the properties listed in the STAR Delinquency Report (Report #5)
- Remove the STAR exemption from the properties listed in the Voluntary Exemption Removal Report – final (Report #6)
For instructions and timelines, visit STAR information for local officials.
Run your 2025 Assessor’s Report as final before submitting the roll to us
Within ten days of publishing your final roll, please ensure that you use the Upload Files tool in the Online Assessment Community to transmit your final roll and assessor’s report to ORPTS.
Do not submit your roll to ORPTS in PDF format. Upload a copy of your RPSv4 database or—if you do not use RPSv4—a 15-c file.
Note: When using the Upload Files tool, we strongly encourage you to use Google Chrome.
RPSV4 users: Before you generate your final roll file, run your assessor’s report and ensure that you’ve selected the Final AR checkbox under Create Option. We’ve received several rolls where the database processing flags were not set to Final and were still in edit status. This could cause a delay in the reconciliation of the assessor’s report and the establishment of the equalization rate.
When you submit your final roll to ORPTS, please include a backup of the database file that was used to run the final assessor's report.
For details, see Roll submission information.
If you have questions, contact ORPTS customer service team.
Deadline to request advisory appraisals
If you’re conducting a reassessment and you would like to request a utility advisory appraisal, the deadline to submit Form RP-7021, Utility Advisory Appraisal Request is 270 days prior to your tentative roll date (by August 1 for localities using the standard assessment calendar).
Please also notify your county customer support team as soon as possible. We cannot deliver advisory appraisals without Form RP-7021 on file for the current year, and your county team must be aware of the reassessment.