6740 County Road #32
Canandaigua, New York 14424
Phone: (585) 229-2400
Fax: (585) 229-4319
May 30, 2022
Memorial Day
All Day
Location: Town Offices Closed
June 12, 2022
Bristol Fun Day-tentative date
11:00am-4:00pm
Location: Levi Corser Park
Kelly L. Ducar
Sole Assessor
Office hours:
Tuesday 12:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Wednesday 9:30 am to 3:30 pm
Thursday 12:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Phone: (585) 229-2400, ext. 3
Fax: (585) 229-4319
E-mail address: assessor@townofbristol.org
Assessment Information
The following video helps explain your property taxes and the role of the Assessor's Office in determining your property value. Borrowed from the Sarpy County Assessors Office. Click on Property Taxes explained below to view.
Star credit Check program for new homeowners after 2015: https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/property/star/
STAR Resource Center: https://www.tax.ny.gov/star/
Why switch to the STAR credit from the STAR exemption: https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/property/star/switch.htm
******NEW*******New York State School Tax Relief (STAR) Program
The STAR program is now a personal income tax credit for new homeowners after 3/1/15.
NYS Department of Tax & Finance is the facilitator of this new process. Click here to register with NYS.
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 - March 1st
The Assessor is required by New York State law to value property as it is on this date. A partially completed building will receive a partial assessment based on its estimated percentage of completion as of March 1st. If you suffer a loss to your property (ex: fire, demolition) after this date you will see no reduction for that loss on forthcoming roll. Exemption forms must be filed by this date also.
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.
Cold War Veterans Exemption - NEW
On October 29, 2009 the Ontario County Board of Supervisors authorized the Cold War Veterans exemption for county real property tax purposes. Eligible veterans will be honorably discharged from active duty service wholly served between September 2, 1945 and December 26, 1991, and outside the war time periods designated in NYS RPTL§458-A. The exemption is available on primary residences only.
Follow this link to the application form and instructions.
Please remember, the filing deadline in the Town of Bristol is March 1st of each year.
Solar & Wind Energy Systems Exemption - Opted Out
The Town of Bristol has opted out of all energy system real property tax assessment exemptions afforded pursuant to RPTL § 487. It is the further intent by the adoption hereof to include all the types of applicable energy systems pursuant to RPTL § 487 in that opting out. Local Law #1 2020-001