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a. There shall be kept in the several offices of the department of finance, books of the annual record of the assessed valuation of real estate to be called "the annual record of the assessed valuation of real estate indicated by parcel numbers in the borough of.........", in which shall be entered in detail the assessed valuation of each separately assessed parcel indicated by a parcel number within the limits of the several boroughs.
b. The assessed valuation of each such parcel shall be set down in such books in two columns. In the first column shall be stated, opposite each such parcel, the sum for which such parcel would sell under ordinary circumstances if wholly unimproved; and in the second column, the sum for which such parcel would sell under ordinary circumstances with the improvements, if any thereon.
c. Such books shall be prepared in such manner that the assessed valuations entered therein shall be under sections and block headings as may be most convenient for use in connection with the tax maps described in section 11-203 of this chapter.
a. The assessed valuation of all taxable real property indicated by identification numbers shall be entered in the main office of the department of finance, and in the branch office in the borough where the same is assessed.
b. The assessors in the districts in the several boroughs which may be assigned to them for that purpose shall furnish to the commissioner of finance at the main office of the department of finance, a detailed statement under oath of the assessable real property indicated by an identification number in such districts, and shall file a duplicate of such statement in the branch office.
c. There shall be kept in the main office of the department of finance, books of the annual record of the assessed valuation of real estate to be known as "the annual record of the assessed valuation of real estate indicated by identification numbers", in which shall be entered the assessed valuations of the real property mentioned in this section.
a. Before opening the several books of annual record of assessed valuation for public inspection, the commissioner of finance shall fix the valuations of property for the purpose of taxation throughout the city at such sums as will, in the commissioner's judgment, establish a just and equal relation between the valuations of property in each borough and throughout the entire city.
b. To this end the assessors or other persons having charge of the borough offices are required to transmit to the commissioner of finance in each year a report of the assessed valuation of real property in the several boroughs at such time prior to the fifteenth day of January as such commissioner may prescribe.
The omission from the several books of annual record of assessed valuations or from the assessment-rolls in respect to the entry therein of the name of the rightful owner or owners of real estate, whether individuals or corporations, shall not invalidate any tax or assessment. In such case, however, no tax shall be collected except from the real estate so assessed.
a. The commissioner of finance may apportion any assessment in such manner as he or she shall deem just and equitable, and forthwith cause such assessment to be cancelled and new assessments, equal in the aggregate to the cancelled assessment, to be made on the proper books and rolls. Within five days thereafter the commissioner of finance shall cause written notice of the new assessments to be mailed to the owners of record of the real estate so assessed at their last known residence or business address, and an affidavit of the mailing of such notice to be filed in the main office of the department of finance.
b. When such notice is mailed after the first day of February such owners may apply for correction of such assessments within twenty days after the mailing of such notice with the same force and effect as if such application were made on or before the first day of March in such year.
Upon receiving notice of a correction of an assessment made by the tax commission, the commissioner of finance shall cause the amount of the assessment as corrected to be entered upon the proper books of annual record and the assessment-rolls for the year for which such correction is made.
a. There shall be published annually in the City Record a list of all reductions in real property assessments granted by the tax commission identifying the name of the property owner, the address and the amount of reduction.
b. 1. No reduction shall be granted for an income-producing property unless there is submitted to the tax commission a statement of income and expenses in the form prescribed by the tax commission and which shall be, in the case of property with an assessed value of $5,000,000 or more, certified by a certified public accountant. The commissioner granting such reduction in assessment shall state in a short memorandum the basis upon which the reduction is granted.
2. (a) Definitions. For purposes of this paragraph, the term "adjustment year" means the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019 and the fiscal year beginning July 1 of every fifth year thereafter.
(b) In the adjustment year beginning July 1, 2024, and in every adjustment year thereafter, the tax commission shall calculate, in accordance with subparagraph (c) of this paragraph, the assessed value threshold for purposes of paragraph 1 of this subdivision. An increase or decrease in such assessed value threshold, if any, shall apply beginning with the fiscal year immediately following the adjustment year.
(c) The assessed value threshold for purposes of paragraph 1 of this subdivision shall be an amount equal to the assessed value threshold in effect for the current adjustment year increased or decreased by the aggregate percentage change in the assessed value of all properties in tax classes two and four as reported by the department of finance on the final assessment roll applicable to the current adjustment year when compared to the assessed value of all properties in tax classes two and four as reported by the department of finance on the final assessment roll applicable to the immediately preceding adjustment year, rounded to the nearest one hundred thousand dollars.
(d) In the adjustment year beginning July 1, 2024, and in every adjustment year thereafter, the tax commission shall provide notice of the assessed value threshold for purposes of paragraph 1 of this subdivision by submitting notice of such assessed value threshold for publication in the City Record and posting written notice of the assessed value threshold on the tax commission's website and on any relevant forms for the fiscal year immediately following the adjustment year issued by the tax commission that an owner of an income-producing property must submit to be granted a reduction in assessment.
(Am. L.L. 2019/042, 2/24/2019, retro. eff. 1/1/2019)
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