Town of Jerusalem

TOWN ASSESSOR

Email: assessor@jerusalem-ny.org
Telephone: 315-595-2840
Fax: 315-305-3507

Email: ZAP@jerusalem-ny.org
Telephone: 315-595-2840
Fax: 315-305-3507

• Assessment of real property
• Administration of School Tax Assessment Reduction (STAR)
• Veterans' exemptions
• Agricultural Assessment - Click here for more information
• Agricultural building exemptions

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2021 Town-wide Revaluation Project Information:

• Reassessment Q/A - PDF
• Understanding Equalization rates - PDF
• Town of Jerusalem Sales - PDF 12 MB

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DATES TO REMEMBER:

• March 1st - Taxable Status Day
  (exemption filing deadline and status of completion or condition of real property)
• May 1st - Tentative Assessment Roll filed annually
• Fourth Tuesday in May - Grievance Day
• July 1st - Final Roll filed annually and Valuation Date

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Small Claims Assessment Review (SCAR)

If you are dissatisfied with the determination of the Board of Assessment Review, you may seek judicial review of your assessment pursuant to Article 7 of the Real Property Tax Law (RPTL).

If you are the owner of one, two or three family residential structure and reside at such residence, or, if you are the owner of unimproved property which is not of sufficient size as determined by your assessing unit to contain a one, two or three family residential structure, you may seek small claims assessment review pursuant to Title 1-A of Article 7 of the RPTL. Petitions for judicial review must be filed within thirty (30) days of the last date allowed by law for the filing of the final assessment roll for your assessing unit, or the published notice of such filing, whichever is later. Petition forms for Small Claims Assessment Review may be obtained from the County Clerk's Office.

For information on filing a Small Claims petition:
https://ww2.nycourts.gov/litigants/scar/petitions.shtml

Small Claim petitions can be filed 7/1-7/30.

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New York State Department of Taxation and Finance
Contest your assessment Web page:
https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/property/contest/contestasmt.htm

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Useful Links:

• 2021 Tentative Assessment Roll
• Official Notices: Tentative Assessment Roll - Assessor Verification
• What is a reassessment and why are they needed?
• CURRENT TAX RATES
• Link to Assessment Rolls
• Link to Yates County Property Information Online:
  Note: this database is updated only once a year and MAY NOT reflect current data.
• Link to Property Taxes & Assessments (What you should know ORPTS presentation)
• Link to Penn Yan School Tax lookup

Videos:

• About Property Taxes & Assessments
• Contesting An Assessment
• Is Your Assessment Fair?