I owned a property XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX PA for may years and had it rented. During these years I paid the required housing permit fees and business privilege taxes on my rental receipts. In XXXX I sold the property on a long term agreement of sale and notified the city that the property was sold. They reviewed the contract ( for a fee ) and approved the sale and understood it was no longer a rental property and I would no longer be required to pay these fees. In XXXX I received a letter XXXX indicating that I had not paid privilege tax or permit fees since XXXX and issued a bill which included past fees and penalties. I reminded them of the letter which they issued to me in XXXX and provided it to them. All of this was done in the same department XXXX, but with different employees. I spoke with everyone, except the Solicitor XXXX who did not return my calls or emails ) and was told " we changed our policy ''. My response is and always has been, they could change the policy on new transactions, but my contract was already exempt. Needless to say, this fell on deaf ears and they have continued to bill me and have sent this to a collection agency. My credit has been damaged badly and I seem to have no recourse. I settled on the property after the buyer made his last payment at the end of XXXX, but I still am fighting XXXX on this. Attached is the letters XX/XX/XXXX exempting me from the fees, the letter XX/XX/XXXX trying to collect past fees, the statements from the collection agency, the most recent letters from the collection agency and XXXX indicating that I still owe the fees, and a page on my credit report showing the collection and my otherwise perfect credit. This has cased me great harm, I can not get the same rates or credit that I should be entitled to. Please help me with this problem. Thank you, XXXX XXXX