Delaware: If property taxes unpaid, dun income tax refund?
| DOVER, Del.
Delaware聽lawmakers are considering a new system to allow school districts and counties to secure unpaid property聽taxes聽from a person's income聽tax聽refund.
unpaid property聽taxes聽cost聽Delaware聽schools millions of dollars.
Lawmakers say Indian River School District is owed $2.9 million in unpaid聽taxes. Capital School District in Dover is missing about $2 million in property聽taxes聽from the past three years. Laurel School District is owed $700,000.
School districts say they need all the funding they are owed as other sources of funding are cut.
A聽tax聽intercept system is already used to retrieve funding for debts such as child support.
A bill could see a vote in the state House of Representatives next week. Last year, a similar bill stalled in the Senate.
