New York A 4984: Requires the state to handle the income verification process for the purposes of the senior citizen tax exemption

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A04984 Summary:

BILL NOA04984 

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SAME ASSAME AS S04805

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SPONSORButtenschon

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COSPNSRLee

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §467, RPT L

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Shifts the conducting of the income verification process for the purposes of the senior citizen tax exemption from municipalities to the department of taxation and finance.

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BILL NOA04984 

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02/10/2025referred to aging

01/07/2026referred to aging

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4984

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Aging

 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to requiring the
 state to handle the income verification process for the purposes of
 the senior citizen tax exemption

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 467 of the real property tax law,
 2 as amended by section 4 of part K of chapter 59 of the laws of 2023, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 5. (a) Application for such exemption must be made by the owner, or
 5 all of the owners of the property, on forms prescribed by the commis-
 6 sioner to be furnished by the appropriate assessing authority and shall
 7 furnish the information and be executed in the manner required or
 8 prescribed in such forms, and shall be filed in such assessor's office
 9 on or before the appropriate taxable status date. Notwithstanding any
 10 other provision of law, at the option of the municipal corporation, any
 11 person otherwise qualifying under this section shall not be denied the
 12 exemption under this section if such person becomes sixty-five years of
 13 age after the appropriate taxable status date and on or before December
 14 thirty-first of the same year.
 15 (b) Effective with applications for such exemption, the application
 16 form shall indicate that all owners of the property and any owners'
 17 spouses residing on the premises must have their income eligibility
 18 verified annually by the department and must furnish their taxpayer
 19 identification numbers in order to facilitate matching with records of
 20 the department. The income eligibility of such persons shall be veri-
 21 fied annually by the department, and the assessing authority shall not
 22 request income documentation from them. All applicants for such
 23 exemption and all assessing authorities shall be required to participate
 24 in this program, known as the senior citizen property tax exemption

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09140-01-5

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 1 income verification program. The commissioner may, in such commission-
 2 er's discretion and in conjunction with the appropriate assessing
 3 authority, extend on an individual basis and as necessary the enrollment
 4 period of the senior citizen property tax exemption income verification
 5 program for property owners who failed to enroll in sufficient time.
 6 Where appropriate, the commissioner, in conjunction with the appropriate
 7 assessing authority, is further authorized to remit directly to such a
 8 property owner a payment in an amount equal to the difference between
 9 the tax bill that the property owner actually received and the tax bill
 10 that the property owner would have received had such property owner
 11 enrolled in a timely manner.
 12 (c) Any information or documentation submitted by an applicant in
 13 connection with applications for or renewal of an exemption authorized
 14 under paragraph (a) of subdivision one of this section to verify income,
 15 shall be deemed confidential, and the assessor, any municipal officer or
 16 municipal employees shall be prohibited from disclosing any such infor-
 17 mation, except for any disclosure necessary in the performance of their
 18 official duties.
 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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