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09/08/2025 Assessment Community Weekly

Save the Date: RPS Online Tour

Over the next few weeks, the RPS Online Project Team is hitting the road and hosting presentations across New York State.

At each presentation, they’ll:

  • discuss implementation and training,
  • give demos of fundamental functions,
  • provide an opportunity to login and experience RPS Online firsthand, and
  • answer your questions.

At this time, they have presentations scheduled in:

  • Guilderland (Albany County): Wednesday, 9/17, 9:30 am - 1:30 pm
  • City of Fulton (Oswego County): Wednesday, 10/1, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
  • Batavia (Genesee County): Thursday, 10/16, 1:00pm – 4:00pm

Coming up

Keep an eye on your email. Later this week we’ll send out an online tool to RSVP for an event.

Attendance at each event will be limited to 50 members of the assessment community on a first come, first served basis.

The RPS Online Project Team will also host virtual presentations, and they may schedule an additional in-person event.

STAR credit reminder

We’ve begun issuing STAR credits to eligible homeowners in school districts across the state that have school tax due dates of September 30. By mid-September, we expect to issue more than 800,000.

If you’re approached by a homeowner wondering when they’ll receive their credit, please direct them to the STAR Credit Delivery Schedule for general timeframes.

Important: Our Contact Center representatives cannot provide a specific delivery date. Homeowners may receive their check or deposit before or after their neighbor or family member. To see whether we've already issued their STAR credit, or to see prior years' credits, they should use our Property Tax Credit Lookup tool.

STAR program participants can also use the Homeowner Benefit Portal to check on the status of their registrations, as well as to:

  • enroll in STAR Credit Direct Deposit,
  • switch from the STAR exemption to the credit, and
  • take action to resolve issues.

Final Reminder: Reappointments are due

For most of you, the current term for county real property tax (RPT) directors and sole appointed assessors expires this month. The next term begins October 1, 2025 and ends September 30, 2031.

We recommend you confirm with your county or municipal official that they sent the necessary information to our office for processing.

Note: Please don't resubmit the appointment or reappointment form if you have already submitted it.

Required certification process

Bear in mind that, after being appointed, assessors have three years to complete the required classes for certification.

After being appointed, county RPT directors have four years to complete the required classes for certification.

Questions? Email orpts.edservices@tax.ny.gov

Exemption for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers extended

Last month, Governor Hochul signed into law an amendment to Chapter 670 of the Laws of 2022. The amendment extends the deadline for municipalities offering a volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers exemption (per RPTL § 466-a through § 466-k) to switch to the new statewide exemption (RPTL § 466-a) until December 9, 2028.

For more information regarding Chapter 670 of the Laws of 2022 and the deadline to switch exemptions, see:

For more information regarding the exemptions for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers, see:

Questions? Contact your municipal attorney

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