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07/14/2025 Assessment Community Weekly

Simplifying the STAR program and STAR forms

The 2025-2026 Enacted State Budget included several provisions to simplify the STAR program.

Homeowners will no longer be required to submit an application to the assessor if they had an ownership change or if they aged into the Enhanced STAR exemption. ORPTS will notify assessors of Basic STAR recipients who become eligible for Enhanced STAR (rather than requiring seniors to apply to their assessors).

After the last 2025 taxable status date at the end of this month, the following STAR exemption forms will be removed from our website:

Property owners who have a change of ownership will report it to the Tax Department using the Homeowner Benefit Portal. If they don’t have internet access, they can call our representatives.

Reminder: Deadline to request utility 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 ORPTS customer service 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.

Start planning your public education campaigns

If you’re doing a reassessment for 2026, it’s not too early to start planning the various ways you’ll help your citizens to understand—and even appreciate—your efforts.

We recommend that you work closely with your ORPTS customer service team to plan and implement your public education campaign. To get started, review our Educating the public webpage.

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