12/29/2025 Assessment Community Weekly
Final reminder: Aid for Cyclical Reassessments upcoming due date
For municipalities planning to participate in the Aid for Cyclical Reassessment program, initial, amended, and new plans must be submitted no later than 120 days prior to tentative assessment roll date. For municipalities on a standard assessment calendar, December 31, 2025 is the deadline for 2026 plans.
If you have questions regarding the aid program or changes to an existing plan, contact your ORPTS customer service team.
Reminder: Remove STAR credit identifiers from your data files
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.
Moreover, 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, we advise you 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’ 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.
New RPSV4 Guidelines for Collecting Manufactured and Modular Homes
Last year the Valuation Issues Team, a subcommittee of the Real Property Tax Administration Committee (RPTAC), identified a need for clarification of the appropriate use of inventory and property class codes associated with manufactured housing.
It became clear during these discussions that there was a need for clear guidelines for appropriate data collection of modular homes as well. A sub-team worked to compile this information.
You may find the document on the assessor manuals page under data collection here.
Judicial Cases
New Judicial cases:
- Farmingdale Pub. Lib. v Farmingdale Union Free Sch. Dist.
- Matter of Foreclosure of Certain Tax Liens Pursuant to Art. 11, Title 3 of the Real Prop. Tax Law (County of Schoharie)