DelawareLIVE Weekly Review – June 16, 2024

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Review Includes: Ruth Briggs King launches campaign for lieutenant governor Celebrate Juneteenth with these events in Delaware Carney signs bill to create hospital review board Move to help state eliminate food deserts heads to House Architects: No room for childcare in Leg Hall Charter leaders happy with flexibility new legislation could give Click on the image below to …

Realty transfer tax

GOP move to cut realty transfer tax tossed onto trash heap

Betsy PriceGovernment, Headlines

  Another Republican attempt to lower the costs of buying a house by reducing taxes associated with it was shot down along party lines Wednesday. Rep. Lyndon Yearick’s House Bill 343 would have dropped the real estate transfer tax from 4% now to $3% in January 2018. That was the rate it was in 2016 before being raised in 2017 …