16 LONGISLANDPRESS.COM • JUNE 2019
POINT OF VIEW
TAX GREIVANCES
UNFREEZING ASSESSMENT ROLL
By LAURA CURRAN
Nassau County Executive
After eight years, the Mangano administration’s
frozen property tax
assessment roll has officially come
to an end, as I fulfill my promise of
fixing the broken system.
The previous administration left us
with more than $500 million in liability
from property tax grievance
settlements due to inaccuracies.
There was never a plan to address
this mounting debt accumulating
from the broken system — until now.
For the past eight years, homeowners
who successfully grieved year after
year shifted the tax burden onto those
who didn’t. The inherently unfair
system gave grievers a more favorable
ratio and almost guaranteed a
reduction. This ends with the final
Mangano roll of 2019-2020.
After eight years of paralysis, we
took action and completed the first
reassessment of more than 400,000
properties. Nassau does not get one
extra dime from the reassessment, but
we are ending a system where one half
of taxpayers subsidized the other half.
The Nassau County Assessment Review
Commission (ARC) has sent final
determination letters to property owners
who filed grievances on the county’s
2019-2020 tentative assessment
roll, which was published on January
2, 2018. Residents and other property
owners will receive bills based on this
roll in October 2019 for school district
taxes and January 2020 for county,
town, and special district taxes.
This is also the last year for ARC’s
mass-settlement program, which
was an unfortunate by-product of the
frozen roll. Just from settlements this
past year, the county lost more than $7
billion in market value and $20 million
in assessed value — in a rising market.
This significant loss of property
value countywide was driving up
school tax rates. Having a lower
assessed value means you need a
higher tax rate in order to get to the
budgeted tax levy amount for the
school district.
This ends now.
The 2020-2021 tentative roll that was
published on January 2, 2019 used
updated market values from the reassessment
that I ordered when I came
into office. As a result of the accuracy
of the reassessment, ARC will verify
and most likely concur with the class
ratios published by the assessment
department, which will negate any
cause for mass settlements.
I want to assure residents that you
will always have the right to grieve,
but you shouldn’t have to do so to
obtain a fair assessment of your
home.
“We are ending a system where one half of
taxpayers subsidized the other half.”
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