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A801Assembly2017-2018 Session

Repeal Property Tax Review

Official title

“Repeals section 735 of the real property tax law relating to small claims assessment review determinations”

Sponsor Clifford CrouchAD-122Affects Housing
Status
In Assembly Committee
Real Property Taxation
Impact
3/10
Low
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Real Property Taxation

What's happening

This bill repeals section 735 of the New York real property tax law concerning small claims assessment review determinations.

Why it matters

  1. Removes an avenue for property owners to challenge property tax assessments. Section 735 outlines the small claims assessment review process, which allows homeowners (often without an attorney) to dispute property assessments they believe are too high. Repealing this section could make it harder for individuals to seek property tax relief.

  2. Could lead to increased costs and complexity for taxpayers. Without the small claims review mechanism, property owners may have to pursue more formal (and costly) legal challenges, which can be intimidating or inaccessible for many.

  3. May reduce local government administrative burden. Eliminating this process could streamline workloads for local assessment review bodies, but at the potential expense of taxpayer fairness and access to simple dispute resolution.

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Repeal Property Tax Review

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Clifford Crouch

Assembly Member · Assembly District 122

1 Multi-sponsor

History

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

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

801

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 9, 2017

Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. OAKS -read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation

AN ACT to repeal section 735 of the real property tax law relating to small claims assessment review determinations

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

Section 1. Section 735 of the real property tax law is REPEALED.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD04373-01-7

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