I'll have an item in the Community Watchdog column soon about the deadline in Suffolk County for filing a tax assessment grievance. You can file a grievance from May 1 until the May 20 deadline. No filings are accepted after that date.
Michael J. Bernard, the Town of Babylon Assessor and President of the Suffolk County Assessors Association, will do a video walk-through of the four-page form that's used statewide (except for NYC, Nassau County and an upstate county), which will be posted on this blog in the future.
You can save yourself the trouble of filling out the forms by taking documentation showing your home is over-assessed to your Town Assessor before the May 1 tax rolls are set. After they're set, the assessor can't change anything - changes have to be approved by the Assessment Review Boards in each of the 10 Suffolk towns.
Check out this Web site if you think your assessment is too high.
