It is not a scam but it may be an unnecessary or misdirected letter. It appears some old files on home ownership/rental were not purged at some point and now the Dept. of Revenue is sending renewal notices to numerous people who either no longer own or no longer rent out their property. It may be (certainly not confirmed that this is true) that Blackhawk just asked for renewal of rental tax certificate for all properties in their records before checking to see if they still managed those properties. Anyway, it is not a scam but if you don't own or don't rent out what you own in TV, you can pretty much ignore the letter. If you want to feel lots better about it, call or write the Dept. of Revenue about it. Writing is better because then you will have it documented in writing that you questioned a mistake. BTW, was the letter properly addressed to you by name or was it some other name? There have been cases of these letters being sent to people who own/rent property but no longer live at the address to which the letter was sent. That is nothing more than a simple addressing error on the part of the Dept of Revenue or whomever failed to file a Change of Address with them.
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