What is the tax rate? When are taxes due? How is property assessed?
In the City of Dover, Delaware, penalty interest: one and one-half percent per month. Source: Ordinance #2025-12 – Amending Chapter 102 – Taxation, Articles III & IV (Realty Transfer Tax and Tax Abatement), verified 2026-06-05.
Ordinance #2025-12 – Amending Chapter 102 – Taxation, Articles III & IV (Realty Transfer Tax and Tax Abatement)
adopted ordinance
penalty interest
one and one-half percent per month
interest at the rate of one and one-half percent per month
scout note
Amends Dover's realty-transfer-tax first-time-homebuyer definitions and downtown tax-abatement qualifications under Chapter 102, Articles III and IV.