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A787Assembly2017-2018 Session

Ignore Pollution in Property Taxes

Official title

“Excludes environmental contamination from consideration as a factor for real property assessment”

Sponsor J. Gary PretlowAD-89Affects Housing
Status
In Assembly Committee
Real Property Taxation
Impact
5/10
Moderate
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Real Property Taxation

What's happening

This bill amends property tax law to exclude environmental contamination as a factor in real property tax assessments.

Why it matters

  1. Property values for tax purposes will no longer be reduced due to environmental contamination. , meaning owners of contaminated properties will be taxed as if the contamination does not exist. This could lead to higher property tax bills for those with polluted or brownfield sites.

  2. Could discourage some property owners from reporting or disclosing contamination. , since the revelation of pollution will not offer them tax relief, potentially affecting transparency and remediation efforts.

  3. May shift the local property tax burden. by increasing assessments on contaminated properties, which could impact redevelopment incentives and the financial calculus for cleaning up polluted land.

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Ignore Pollution in Property Taxes

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
J. Gary Pretlow

Assembly Member · Assembly District 89

Chair, Ways and Means

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History

  1. Referred to real property taxation
  2. Referred to real property taxation

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

787

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 9, 2017

Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation

AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to excluding environmental contamination from consideration as a factor for assessment

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

Section 1. Section 706 of the real property tax law is amended by adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:

3. For the purposes of assessment, environmental contamination shall be excluded from consideration.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to real property with a taxable status date on or after such date.

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

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD05053-01-7

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