10/28/2025 Assessment Community Weekly
Log into the Online Assessment Community to access Report #9
Report #9 lists properties whose owners may be eligible for the senior citizens (467) exemption. To be listed on the report, the owners would typically:
- meet the age requirements for the 2026 Enhanced STAR benefit, and
- have a reported federal adjusted gross income (FAGI) below $58,400 on their 2024 income tax return(s).
The report is for your information; you are not required to take action based on the report.
As you know, eligibility for the senior citizens exemption is not entirely based on FAGI. However, this report may be helpful to assessors who wish to reach out to lower-income seniors and advise them of the availability of the senior citizens exemption. (The statutory maximum income for the sliding scale senior citizens exemption is currently $58,399.99).
The report is not intended to include all properties with incomes under $58,400. For instance, if we are unable to determine the income for a particular property, it would not be listed on the report.
Note: For mobile home and co-op properties that are not separately assessed, the Received 467 on recent roll field will be blank.
Removing STAR credit identifiers from your data files
In the upcoming weeks, we will provide you with a list of this year's STAR credit recipients in your jurisdiction. We determine eligibility for the STAR credit annually. It is not safe to assume that someone who received the credit in one year will receive it again the following year. Therefore, the markers that identify STAR credit recipients should not be carried over from year to year.
STAR credits are income tax credits, and the names of credit recipients are not subject to public disclosure. While the law allows us to provide you with lists of STAR credit recipients, it also states that the information contained on these lists must be considered confidential and may not be subject to further disclosure under FOIL or otherwise. If STAR credit markers are left on the data file after school tax bills have been run, it could result in the inadvertent public disclosure of this confidential data.
Accordingly, you are advised to remove all STAR credit markers from your data file after school tax bills are run to ensure that no inadvertent releases of this confidential data occur. The procedure for doing so depends on the software you use.
RPSV4 Users: After school tax bills have been processed, users of ORPTS’s Tax Bill Print Utility should purge the STAR credit markers from their database. If you don’t remove the markers, a notation that only applies to STAR check recipients may inappropriately display on the town and county tax roll. That would make it possible for members of the public to identify STAR credit recipients simply by looking at those rolls.
To remove the markers, browse to the RPSV4 Updates section of the Online Assessment Community, and follow the instructions in the release notes for the STAR_credit_purge.exe file.
Non-RPSV4 Users: Users of third-party bill printing programs should review their processes with their vendor to ensure that it is not possible to identify the STAR credit recipients from a record that is accessible to the public.
Training reminders
Welcome new assessors and county directors.
- As a new assessor, you have three years to complete the required classes for certification.
- As a new county director, you have four years to complete the required classes for certification.
All assessors and directors must take an approved ethics course within one year of being appointed, reappointed, or re-elected to office. For approved courses and more information, see our Ethics component webpage.
Questions? Email orpts.edservices@tax.ny.gov
New Judicial case
We've added Matter of Germania of Poughkeepsie, Inc. v Town of Poughkeepsie to new Judicial cases.