11/10/2025 Assessment Community Weekly
Assessor qualifications and basic certification, frequently asked questions (FAQs) added to our website
We have added an FAQ to our website addressing frequently asked questions about assessor qualifications and basic certification requirements for assessors.
If you have additional questions, we’d love to hear from you! Please send them to orpts.edservices@tax.ny.gov.
Report #10: NYS Tax Return Deceased Report
The NYS Tax Return Deceased Report (Report #10) is now available in the Online Assessment Community to assessors and county directors.
The report lists property owners who:
- are receiving or registered for a STAR benefit, and
- were reported as deceased on a recent New York State income tax return.
This report is for your information; you are not required to take action based on the report. If you choose to use the information in this report, before making any changes to your files, you may wish to cross reference it against local information on the Internet or other sources.
If you come across a property owner that is erroneously listed in the report (that is, they’re not deceased), it is almost certainly due to information mistakenly reported on an income tax return. You can notify us at assessor.report.feedback@tax.ny.gov, and we will update the report when it is next published.
Reminder: We’ve updated our RPS Online information center
We’ve redesigned our RPS Online information center. Included in the redesign are updated FAQs, based on the questions you have asked the RPS Online Project Team.
We’ll continue to update the information center with the latest in RPS Online news and content.
If you have additional questions or input about RPS Online, we’re listening! Please email RPSOnline@tax.ny.gov. We’ll continue to use your questions to update our FAQs webpage further, and your feedback is valuable as we continue to develop and enhance the system.
Note: The URLs for some of the webpages within the RPS Online information center have changed. If you had any of these webpages bookmarked or added to your favorites in your browser, we recommend you recreate your link.
New Judicial case
We've added Matter of Zhonghui Chen v Department of Assessment of the County of Nassau to new Judicial cases.