A New York State Designated "Quality Community"

ASSESSOR

Personnel
Sharon Martin, Assessor
Karen Justus, Assistant
Roland Ferris, Data Collector

Assessor's Responsibilities

Determine and maintain assessments, property inventory records, ownership and exemptions on approximately 5,800 parcels.

Locate all taxable Real Property in our town and identify the ownership of each. Establish a taxable value for all Real Property subject to taxation. List the values of all property on the Assessment Roll.

Assist taxpayers with completing their exemption applications and determine their eligibility. Examples: Senior Citizen, Alternative Veteran, Basic STAR, Enhanced STAR, Disability, Business, Clergy, Agricultural, Non-Profit, etc. The last day for filing all exemption applications for any given year is March 1st.

Important Dates to Remember Affecting the Assessment Process:

• Exemption filing deadline - March 1st. The last day for filing all exemption applications for the current year. Applications may be filed subsequent to March 1st, effective for the following year. (For STAR info, please see below.)
• Taxable Status Date - March 1st, each year. The date property is valued according to ownership and condition each year. Our Tax Rolls are always available for review by the public.
• Grievance Day - 4th Tuesday in May, each year.

Tax Maps

Tax Maps for the Town of Schodack are available on-line. Take note that these .pdf files are very large.

The Assessment Information System.

Our Assessment Information System has been undergoing upgrades (and we've recently added the cities of Troy and Rensselaer to our consortium. Thanks for bearing with us as we make sure the AIS provides a single, easy to use, way to access almost all information maintained by your Assessor including assessment roll data, tax maps, property photographs, tax rates, exemption amounts, comparable sales and comparable assessments. This document management site has been designed as a search tool. Please email me, Sharon Martin, and let me know how to make the even site better for you!

This will be a valuable tool for property owners and appraisers.

Tax Bills

January Property Tax Bills have been mailed out. If you did not receive your bill, please call Katherine Lubbers, Tax Receiver, at 477-7935

Payments received from January 1st - January 31st are with no penalty
Payment received February 1st- - February 29th are with a 1% penalty
Payment received March 1st - March 31 are with a 2% penalty
An additional fee of $2.00 is requested for taxes unpaid as of March 4th, 2008 per Section 987 (1) of Real Property tax Law
NO PARTIAL PAYMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED Per Real Property Tax Law, Section 925

The State of NY has discontinued the STAR Rebate program. The exemptions will not change. In other words, the "rebate" program which provided some tax relief in some cases no longer exists, but STAR Exemptions remain in effect.

The Applications for ALL Exemptions are available in our office or on-line on-line.

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