Finding Aid Search Results
1
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This series of daybooks ("tax diaries") documents daily receipts of delinquent taxes paid to the comptroller during the grace period prior to the sale of the property for unpaid taxes. Each entry shows the years taxes are owed; name and address of person paying tax; county and lot or tract; date and .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
2
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This series lists names of persons owning land in Sullivan County for which taxes were unpaid for the tax years 1924-1926. Each entry includes only the name of the property owner and a reference number. The source to which the number refers is unknown..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
3
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Title:
Series:
B1805
Dates:
1799-1818
Abstract:
This series consists of drafts of town assessment rolls prepared for county treasurers by tax assessors. Information includes name of possessor of real or personal property; description of real estate (acreage, farm, mill, tannery, etc.); value of real estate; value of personal estate; and total assessed .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
4
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Title:
Series:
B1611
Dates:
1725-1840
Abstract:
These volumes were created by the comptroller's office to record information related to quit rents on patents granted by the colony, including payments of arrears, quit rent sales, redemptions, and conveyances. Information is grouped by patent. Each patent has a separate heading that gives register .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
5
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Title:
Series:
B1612
Dates:
1754-1848
Abstract:
Quit rents were a remnant of feudal dues that were levied during both the colonial and early statehood periods. Quit rents were very unpopular and were finally abolished by the Constitution of 1846. This series consists of certificates (printed forms) that document payments and commutation of annual .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
6
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Title:
Series:
B1616
Dates:
[circa 1866-1885]
Abstract:
This volume lists information gathered from applications for cancellations of tax-sales. All of the applications were made in 1885 for tax-sales held as early as 1866. Information given for each entry includes name of applicant; date of application; description of land; tax-sale year; ground of application; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
7
Creator:
New York (State). Financial Restructuring Board for Local Governments
Title:
Series:
B2766
Dates:
2014, 2019
Abstract:
This series consists of archival copies of the publicly accessible website of the New York State Financial Restructuring Board for Local Governments..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
8
Creator:
New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Task Force on School Finance and Real Property Taxation
Title:
Series:
L0146
Dates:
1979-1980
Abstract:
This series contains transcripts and statements from hearings on legislative options for establishing new real property tax systems in New York State. The testimony includes information on how the existing system affects commercial interests, the impact on the State's economy of shifting taxes from .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
9
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
In 1850, the legislature transferred the function of selling and conveying land for unpaid taxes to the county treasurers. The comptroller continued to receive copies of lists of unpaid non-resident taxes and of lands redeemed and finally conveyed. In 1855 the legislature restored the former system .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
10
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Title:
Series:
B1604
Dates:
1919-1926
Abstract:
These registers were compiled by the comptroller's office from reports received from county treasurers regarding unpaid taxes on resident lands (belonging to state residents) in the Forest Preserve. Information recorded includes county and town; lot number; name and/or description of tract; name of .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Abstract:
This series documents the issuance of deeds to purchasers of lands sold for unpaid taxes, in exchange for surrender of purchase certificates. Information includes date the certificate was received; name of purchaser or grantee; date of deed; and date and manner of delivery. Summary data on number of .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
12
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
Legislation enacted in 1799 (amended in 1801) established a system of assessing and taxing real and personal property and required tax commissioners or (beginning in 1801) county supervisors to submit to the State Comptroller a copy of the county's tax rolls and a list of unpaid taxes. This series consists .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
13
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
Volumes in this series contain detailed information regarding unpaid taxes on non-resident lands: town, lot number, description, assessed value, amount of unpaid tax, date of sale, person making payment, and amount paid. Abstracted information, apparently used to prepare lists of lands available for .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
14
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This series consists of registers describing non-resident property on which taxes were owed which the Comptroller's Office "rejected" because the descriptions were incomplete, inconsistent, inaccurate or for another technical reasons. The descriptions were used to produce accurate lists of lands to .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
15
Creator:
New York (State). Department of Audit and Control. Bureau of Municipal Research and Statistics
Title:
Series:
13322
Dates:
1939-2001, 2004-2013
Abstract:
Annual schedules are required to be filed with the State Comptroller's Office according to Article 3, Section 30, subsection 4 of the State General Municipal Law, and are submitted on forms provided by that office. Each schedule contains a detailed itemization of the current tax levy for the county .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
16
Creator:
New York (State). Department of Taxation and Finance. Law Bureau
Title:
Series:
15941
Dates:
1893-1969
Abstract:
This series contains documents from the Dept. of Taxation office of agency counsel relating to real property tax exemptions; utility property tax exemptions; utility property assessments; appeals of local assessments; equalization rates (county and state); pending legislation on real property taxation .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
17
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Title:
Series:
B1620
Dates:
1891
Abstract:
This volume was apparently created by the Erie County Guaranteed Search Company and submitted to the State Comptroller. An accompanying memorandum indicates that the volume documents occupied or resident lands in Erie County mistakenly sold as unoccupied or non-resident lands for unpaid taxes in the .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
18
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This series provides summary information on cancellation of tax sales held to sell lands for unpaid taxes. While tax-sales for as early as 1800 are referred to, and a few cancellations are included for as late as 1946, the cancellations generally date from 1818-circa 1930. Usual causes for cancellation .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
19
Creator:
New York (State). Department of Audit and Control
Title:
Series:
B1610
Dates:
1700-1935
Abstract:
These maps were collected and/or created by the Office of the State Comptroller for the purpose of identifying land to be sold for unpaid taxes. The maps depict land in every area of the state, and especially in the Adirondack, Catskill, and western regions. Many maps are extremely detailed and frequently .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
20
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This series documents the announcement of pending tax-sales and redemptions of lands. Included are affidavits of publication of tax sale and redemption notices for land to be sold for taxes; county treasurers' receipts; notices of mortgage liens on land to be sold for taxes; published lists of lands .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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