Getting the Correct Tax ID on you Listings

You may verify the proper property id number from the tax records in the MHMLS system through the Tax Search section of the Search Module. You may also auto-populate tax info to your listing automatically by using the tax look-up while in Listing Load. The system uses the full official New York State SWIS 26 digit property id number.

If you use the property id number from a current tax bill you will notice that it is only 22 digits. Some towns truncate the property id number making it confusing. If you encounter this below is the translation to add the missing values to convert the 22 digits to the proper 26 digits.

If the Parcel Id on the tax bill is 132800-9898-01-379911-0000 which is 22 digits, to make it 26 digits add two zeros before the 9898 and two zeros after the 9898 (FYI – in this example 9898 is the map designation) and remove the dashes. The Parcel Id now becomes 13280000989800013799110000.