Why Should Delaware Care?New Castle County property owners – who have been waiting for months to receive their tax bills – could be waiting even longer. As a coalition of landlords and hotel owners continue their legal battle to step the county from implementing a split tax rate, residents are left in limbo.
New Castle County property owners could see their tax bills delayed even further, as a coalition of landlords and hotel owners continues a legal fight to overturn a property tax system that imposes higher tax rates on commercial than on residences.
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, New Castle County and its six school districts, claiming a recently enacted state law allowing northern Delaware school districts to tax business properties more than residential ones “is unlawful many times over.”…