How did the court-ordered reassessment conducted in The First State last year – the first one in decades – end up causing such a spike in property taxes and school taxes for many Delawareans? And, why were there apparent discrepancies between residential and non-residential properties?
A Special Committee gathered Tuesday at Legislative Hall in Dover for the first of four hearings to get some answers, and set the stage for possible legislative proposals.
House Majority Leader Kerri Evelyn Harris, D- Dover, said during her opening statement that “some people were seeing increases in their tax bills in hundreds, others in thousands of dollars.”…