Statistics
Equalization Rate: 59% (2014)
Residential Ratio: 58% (2013)
Uniform Level of Assessment: 59% (2014)
Taxable Status Date: March 1, 2014
Valuation Date: July 1, 2013
Tentative Roll: May 1, 2014
Grievance Day: May 28, 2014
Final Roll: July 1, 2014
Last Revaluation: 1998
Number of Parcels in Municipality: 2835 (2014 roll)
Additional Information:
2014County/Town/Village Tax Rate: (dollars per thousand)
If you live in the Mt. Hope Fire protection district 16.4406
If you live in the Howells Fire District 16.7419
If you live in Otisville (town tax for village residents 13.0976
Plus village tax for village residents (6/12) 12.7529
Plus Pine Bush School Residents – Thrall Library 1.3645
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Actual Breakdown of the above:
County 6.6837
Town “A” 6.4139
Highway 1.1762
Howells Fire 2.4681
Mt. Hope Fire 2.1668
Hidden Valley Sewer flat fee of $1405 a year (roll section 21 & 22)
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School Tax Rate 2013-2014:
Minisink Valley 38.6405% (increase 2.26%)
Port Jervis 49.5391% (increase 1.9%)
Pine Bush 39.6136% (increase 5.77%)
Contacts
Sole Assessor, Professional:
Town of Mount Hope
Dennis R. Ketcham IAO
1706 Route 211 West
Otisville , NY 10963
Email: rpsmthope1@hvc.rr.com
Phone: 845-386-9868
Fax: 845-386-1100
Public Hours:
Monday evenings 6-8pm
Links:
Exemption Forms Online from NYS Taxation & Finance
How to File for a Review of Your Assessment
Link to General Information
Final Assessment Roll 2014 Link
FAQs:
Uniform Percentage of Value
The percentage of market value (full value) used by an assessing unit to establish uniform assessments. This value must appear on the tentative roll. Real Property Tax Law Section 305 specifies, “all real property in each assessing unit shall be assessed at a uniform percentage of value…”
Taxable Status Date
The ownership and physical condition of real property as of this date are assessed (valued) according to price fixed as of the valuation date. All applications for property exemptions must be filed with the assessor by this date.
Residential Assessment Ratio (RAR)
A percentage established by the State Board of Real Property Services according to law, using the ratio of assessed value to the sales price for each usable residential sale in a recent one-year period. Ratios are then listed from highest to lowest; the midpoint (median) ratio is selected as the RAR. The RAR can be used to prove that a residential property is assessed at a higher level than other homes on the assessment roll. Your locality’s RAR indicates at what percent of full value residential properties are assessed. For example, a RAR of 20 indicates that residential properties are assessed at approximately 20 percent of their full value.
Equalization Rate
“State equalization rate” means the percentage of full value at which taxable real property in a county, city, town or village is assessed as determined by the state board.” (RPTL Section 102) The rate is a ratio of the sum of the locally determined assessed values for all taxable parcels for a given assessment roll divided by ORPS’s estimate of total full value for that same roll.