A debt collector is attempting to collect XXXX dollars in association with the City and County of XXXX XXXX XXXX. The letter offers the reason being my failure to file a " Declaration of Closed Business '' form. This debt letter was issued to me on XXXX XXXX, 2016, ten years after having XXXX and XXXX years after having operated XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, a XXXX XXXX. A declaration of closed business form was not filed for either business as I was unaware that it was a mandatory action. An email communication was submitted to XXXX on XXXX XXXX, 2016 asking about the claim a response was provided. ( reference number XXXX ) Upon speaking with a representative for Linebarger Goggan Blair and Sampson, LLP and after having submitted a request for validity of this claim in writing to their firm on XXXX XXXX, 2016 with no reply it was announced that the request was 1 ) not yet received and 2 ) the request was forwarded to the city and county of XXXX XXXX. Today contact was made to XXXX via cell phone, ( reference number XXXX ) asking about this claim and needing to know how to obtain the business account number in question so to complete the Declaration of Closed Business Form for submittal to the city and county of XXXX XXXX. The woman speaking exclaimed that she did not have the information of the business in question and so I provided her with the information mentioned at the start of this letter regarding my business involvement in XXXX XXXX from XXXX. It would be good to know how to obtain the information for form completion and weather or not this is a valid claim. Thank You. 
