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A2438Assembly2017-2018 SessionSame asS5400

Limit Tax Address Changes

Official title

“Relates to tax billing addresses”

Sponsor James SkoufisAD-99+7 co-sponsorsAffects Housing
Status
Vetoed
Impact
3/10
Low
Outcome
Vetoed

Bill progress

Vetoed

What's happening

This bill amends real property tax law to exempt assessors from entering mortgage institutions or their agents as tax billing addresses.

Why it matters

  1. Shifts administrative responsibility away from local assessors. by no longer requiring them to enter mortgage institutions or their agents as the tax billing address, potentially streamlining assessor workloads and reducing errors or disputes over billing information.

  2. Could impact homeowners with mortgages. whose tax bills often go directly to their lender for escrow payment; this change may require property owners to take a more active role in ensuring their taxes are paid on time and correctly.

  3. Alters communication flow between municipalities, lenders, and taxpayers. , possibly increasing the risk that property owners miss critical tax notices if their address is not updated or maintained properly.

  4. May reduce influence or involvement of mortgage servicers in property tax processes. , emphasizing the taxpayer’s direct responsibility for receiving and managing property tax bills.

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Who cares

  • Local assessors

    The bill would exempt them from having to enter a new tax billing address when that address is a mortgage investing institution or its agent.

  • Mortgage investing institutions and their agents

    Assessors would no longer be required to enter tax billing addresses identifying these institutions or agents.

  • Property owners with mortgage-related tax billing addresses

    The bill would remove the requirement for assessors to record those addresses, while leaving unchanged the prohibition on changing the owner's name under this section.

Headline styles

Limit Tax Address Changes

Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor
James Skoufis

Assembly Member · Assembly District 99

History

  1. Tabled
  2. Vetoed memo.157
  3. Delivered to governor
  4. Returned to assembly
  5. Passed senateVote 62–0
  6. 3rd reading cal.796
  7. Substituted for S5400A
  8. Referred to rules
  9. Delivered to senate
  10. Passed assembly
  11. Ordered to third reading rules cal.471
  12. Rules report cal.471
Show 6 earlier actions
  1. Reported
  2. Reported referred to rules
  3. Reported referred to ways and means
  4. Print number 2438a
  5. Amend and recommit to real property taxation
  6. Referred to real property taxation

Companion bill

The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.

S5400Senate

Limit Tax Address Changes

Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor William J. Larkin Jr.

Impact 3 · Low0% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

2438--A

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 20, 2017

Introduced by M. of A. SKOUFIS, FINCH, MONTESANO, RAIA, BRABENEC, MAGNARELLI, STIRPE, FRIEND -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, BUCHWALD, MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to tax billing addresses

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section 518 of the real property tax law, as amended by chapter 145 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:

§ 518. Change in tax billing address. Where the assessor receives a report of a transfer occurring after the taxable status date, or is otherwise notified of a change in tax billing address, the assessor shall enter the new tax billing address on the data file, as that term is defined in section fifteen hundred eighty-one of this chapter. Where no such data file exists, the assessor shall enter the new tax billing address on the assessment roll. If the assessor does not have custody of the assessment roll when such report is received, he or she shall report the new tax billing address to the person having custody of the tax roll, which person shall enter the new tax billing address on the tax roll. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to authorize a change of the name of the owner included in the data file or appearing on the roll. Where such "tax billing address" is a mortgage investing institution or agent thereof, the assessor shall not be required to make an entry.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD03993-02-7

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