Company: BDJ
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001193125-25-049575
Chunk: 94

Company: BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 94
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 financial statements and financial highlights, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements and financial highlights. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements and financial highlights. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2024, by correspondence with custodians or counterparties; when replies were not received, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. Deloitte & Touche LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
February 25, 2025 We have served as the auditor of one or more BlackRock investment companies since 1992.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm 173

Important Tax Information (unaudited)

The following amounts, or maximum amounts allowable by law, are hereby designated as qualified dividend income for individuals for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024:

| Trust Name | Qualified DividendIncome |
| BGR        |               $8,876,987 |
| BDJ        |               37,667,714 |
| BOE        |               10,955,631 |
| BGY        |                9,933,846 |
| CII        |                8,711,972 |
| BME        |                  932,858 |
| BCX        |               21,906,083 |
| BUI        |                5,606,513 |

The Trusts hereby designate the following amounts, or maximum amounts allowable by law, as capital gain dividends, subject to a long-term capital gains tax rate as noted below, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024:

| Trust Name | 20% Rate Long-TermCapital Gain Dividends |
| BDJ        |                              $71,310,181 |
| BGY        |                               14,548,390 |
| CII        |                               52,486,414 |
| BME        |                               27,644,801 |
| BSTZ       |                               76,763,205 |
| BST        |                               54,438,359 |
| BUI        |                               19,545,019 |

The Trusts intend to pass through to their shareholders the following amounts, or maximum amounts allowable by law, of foreign source income earned and foreign taxes