Lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday that would indefinitely extend New Castle County school districts’ controversial ability to tax commercial and residential properties at different rates.
Authored by Rep. Kim Williams (D-Stanton), the bill was filed among a slew of property tax-related proposals by lawmakers who took part in the Delaware General Assembly’s months-long committee investigation into the fallout from last year’s first-in-a-generation property reassessments.
Enacted last summer as a one-time fix, the separated tax rates – sometimes called split rates – were meant to provide residents with temporary relief from the post-reassessment tax bill sticker shock…