A 1524: Relates to financial statements for assessments of condos, cooperative buildings and cooperative communities; requires financial statements to be prepared using GAAP; requires auditing for certain buildings by CPAs.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1524 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to financial statements for assessments of condominiums, cooperative buildings and cooperative communities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 581 of the real property tax law 2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows: 3 (f) (i) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all financial 4 statements prepared in the course of assessing the value of a condomin- 5 ium building, cooperative building or cooperative community shall be 6 prepared using generally accepted accounting principles. 7 (ii) All financial statements provided annually to shareholders or to 8 prospective purchasers of units or shares must be prepared using the 9 accrual basis of accounting. 10 (iii) For purposes of this subdivision, "generally accepted accounting 11 principles" shall mean the principles of either governmental accounting 12 standards (GAS) or GAAP as specified by authoritative national stan- 13 dard-setting bodies. 14 (iv) Should International Financial Reporting Standards accounting 15 standards (IFRS) be adopted for use in the United States of America by 16 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, these same standards shall 17 constitute using generally accepted accounting principles for the 18 purpose of this subdivision. 19 (v) For the purpose of this section, condominium buildings, cooper- 20 ative buildings or cooperative communities with over ten units must have 21 their financial statements annually audited by a fully licensed New York 22 state certified public accountant. 23 (vi) The attorney general's office shall have the appropriate authori- 24 ty to enforce the provisions of this paragraph. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04440-01-5