Why Should Delaware Care?Last year’s first-in-a-generation property reassessment and its lasting fallout have reverberated across Delaware, particularly in New Castle County. Lawmakers introduced several tax reforms this past session, including one preserving the current split school tax rate system.
Gov. Matt Meyer allowed a property tax bill to take effect without his signature on Thursday, permitting school districts in New Castle County to continue taxing residential and business properties at different rates.
The bill follows statewide property tax reassessments completed in recent years that sparked an ongoing debate over how Delaware taxes land…