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Treasury

TreasuryPurpose Statement

The Division of Treasury is joint custodian of the state's general checking account with the Office of the State Comptroller, managing over $300 billion in annual transactions. Additionally, Treasury is statutorily responsible for overseeing $6 billion in sole custody funds of certain state agencies and public authorities held in over 120 accounts. Treasury provides a broad array of financial services such as investment and cash management, depository and disbursement, reconciliation, and check cancellation and reissuance. Treasury is also responsible for the sale and distribution of both cigarette tax and stock transfer stamps.

Christopher Curtis
Deputy Commissioner and State Treasurer

Major functions

Treasury consists of the following bureaus and units and their roles:

Bureau of Investments and Cash Management

Investments and Cash Management: Manages a $6 billion fixed income portfolio consistent with statute and Treasury/agency investment guidelines. The unit also ensures deposits are fully collateralized, manages liquidity to fund daily disbursements, audits payment files prior to release and processes disbursement requests for sole custody accounts. Additionally, the unit collaborates with the Office of the State Comptroller on a daily basis to release electronic payments from the State’s General Checking account to fund payroll, vendor payments, the State Supplemental Program (SSP), debt service and the State Short Term Investment Pool (STIP).

Bureau of Financial Operations Control and Analysis

  • Accounting: Manages all receipts into the state’s general checking account by depositing checks and monitoring incoming electronic payments. The unit also manages the receipts, disbursements, and fraud protection for sole custody accounts of certain state agencies and public authorities.  Additionally, the unit conducts a daily reconciliation of the general checking account and a daily and monthly reconciliation of DOL unemployment funds.

  • Depository Control: Responsible for stopping and reissuing checks issued from the general checking account, which includes vendor, payroll and SSP checks. The unit also manages checks which have been returned as undeliverable by the post office.

  • Reconciliation: Reconciles Treasury managed sole custody accounts each month for various state agencies and public authorities, documenting and resolving any discrepancies discovered during this process. Additionally, this unit monitors the fraud protections for the general checking account.

  • Refund & Reissuance: Releases check and direct deposit payments for PIT refunds and the STAR credit program, prints replacement checks, processes forgery cases, tracks undeliverable checks and ensures adequate fraud protection. Additionally, the unit fulfills orders for cigarette tax stamps and stock transfer stamps. 

  • Warrant Control and Disbursement: Disburses all general checking check payments including state payroll, vendor and SSP checks. In addition, the unit prints and disburses sole custody checks and releases cigarette tax stamps to agents.  

Additional information

Contact information

Note: The Division of the Treasury cannot assist you with any tax-related questions including return status, payments, or balance due. See Contact us for tax-related inquiries.

Do not email the Division of the Treasury regarding the status of your return or payment; we are unable to respond or to forward your inquiry.  

By email: Treasury.Inquiry@tax.ny.gov

By mail:

NYS DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE
DIVISION OF THE TREASURY
P.O. BOX 22119
ALBANY NY 12201-2119

By private delivery:

NYS DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE
DIVISION OF THE TREASURY
110 STATE STREET, FLOOR 2
ALBANY NY 12207
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