Delaware: what the state takes
Delaware charges its own income tax on top of federal tax. Here is the rate, the return, the date and where the official rules live.
Agency page last read 11 September 2026.

State rate
Banded
2025 Delaware bands. Wilmington residents pay a further city wage tax
Resident return
Form 200-01
Delaware Division of Revenue
Due
30 April
Weekends and holidays can push it on
Delaware gives residents a later date than the federal return.
Try a figure
Yearly income
How you file
Delaware tax
$3,557
Top state rate you touch
6.6%
- Kept before federal tax$57,591
- Federal income tax$13,852
- Delaware tax$3,557
Band by band
State deduction taken off first: $5,700. Taxed amount: $69,300.
- $0 to $2,000 at %$0
- $2,000 to $5,000 at 2.2%$66
- $5,000 to $10,000 at 3.9%$195
- $10,000 to $20,000 at 4.8%$480
- $20,000 to $25,000 at 5.2%$260
- $25,000 to $60,000 at 5.55%$1,943
- $60,000 to above at 6.6%$614
Filing in Delaware
- Who collects it
- Delaware Division of Revenue
- Return
- Form 200-01
- Deadline
- Usually 30 April
Federal comes on top
Whatever your state does, the IRS wants Form 1040 by 15 April, plus Social Security and Medicare through your wages or self employment tax. State tax paid can sometimes be deducted federally if you itemise, within a yearly cap.