New Castle County property owners can expect to receive their long-awaited redone annual tax bills after a judge denied a challenge by a coalition of landlords that the split rates they depend on were unconstitutional.
In late September, homeowners were waiting to receive a revised county tax bill issued following a split of residential and commercial rates for school taxes when a coalition of commercial landlords and hotel owners sued the state, county and its six school districts last month, claiming a recently enacted state law allowing northern Delaware school districts to tax business properties more than residential ones “is unlawful many times over.”
Delaware Vice Chancellor Lori Will issued her ruling Thursday that disagreed with that argument…