Company: BDJ
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001193125-25-049575
Chunk: 198

Company: BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 198
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’s independent public accountant – Not Applicable

(b) Section 906 Certifications are attached

(c) Notices to the registrant’s common shareholders in accordance with the order under Section 6(c) of the 1940 Act granting an exemption from Section 19(b) of the 1940 Act and Rule 19b-1 underthe 1940 Act, dated May 9, 2009 1

(d) Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Fund has received exemptive relief from the Securities and Exchange Commission permitting it to make periodic distributions of long-term capital gains with respect to its outstanding common stock as frequently as twelve times each year, and as frequently as distributions are specified by or in accordance with the terms of its outstanding preferred stock. This relief is conditioned, in part, on an undertaking by the Fund to make the disclosures to the holders of the Fund’s common shares, in addition to the information required by Section 19(a) of the 1940 Act and Rule 19a-1 thereunder. The Fund is likewise obligated to file with the SEC the information contained in any such notice to shareholders and, in that regard, has attached hereto copies of each such notice made during the period.

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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust

| By: |     | /s/ John M. Perlowski                                    |
|     |     | John M. Perlowski                                        |
|     |     | Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer) of |
|     |     | BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust                 |

Date: February 26, 2025

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

| By: |     | /s/ John M. Perlowski                                    |
|     |     | John M. Perlowski                                        |
|     |     | Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer) of |
|     |     | BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust                 |

Date: February 26, 2025

| By: |     | /s/ Trent Walker                                         |
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