Pinellas County Tax Collector Email Addresses Changing Soon

PINELLAS COUNTY, FL – All Pinellas County Tax Collector email addresses will change over to a “.gov” format after business hours this Friday, March 3.

Beginning officially on Monday, March 6, all tax collector emails will end in @pinellastaxcollector.gov addresses, instead of @pinellastaxcollector.gov. The front end of the emails will be unaffected. Since a .gov email domain is only available to legitimate U.S.-based government organizations, this move will reassure citizens that they are communicating with the actual and official governmental office of the tax collector. The .gov signifies trust and credibility to the public and migrating to a .gov domain means that correspondence from the office is less likely to be confused with other, potentially illegitimate, sources. In fact, it is the top-level domain for governmental organizations in the U.S.

Additionally, this transition will align the organization’s email addresses with the tax collector’s modernized website that rolled out last May, pinellastaxcollector.gov.

“We are continually searching for ways to improve how we interact with our customers,” Tax Collector, Charles W. Thomas says, “The .gov domain is already a trusted stamp of legitimacy that will help customers feel more secure when emailing us.”

Once the migration occurs, tax collector customers are encouraged to only use the new “pinellastaxcollector.gov” email addresses to prevent delays in correspondence. However, correspondence sent to the former, @pinellastaxcollector.gov email addresses will redirect to the new domain indefinitely to ensure communication with the public is not disrupted.

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ABOUT THE PINELLAS COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR’S OFFICE: The Pinellas County Tax Collector’s Office is a constitutionally elected office. Responsibilities include collecting and distributing state and local taxes and providing driver license and motor vehicle registration services to Pinellas County residents. For more information, visit pinellastaxcollector.gov.