Form 485BPOS PUTNAM TAX EXEMPT INCOME

February 16, 2017 9:23 AM EST

  As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on   
  February 16, 2017   
 
  Registration No. 2-57165   
  811-02675   

 
 
 
  SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION   
  WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549   
 
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FORM N-1A
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  REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933  / X / 
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  Pre-Effective Amendment No.  / / 
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  Post-Effective Amendment No. 57 / X / 
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  REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY  / X / 
  ACT OF 1940  ---- 
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  Amendment No. 48 / X / 
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  PUTNAM TAX EXEMPT INCOME FUND   
  (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)   
 
  One Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02109   
  (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)   
 
  Registrant's Telephone Number, including Area Code   
  (617) 292-1000   

 



  It is proposed that this filing will become effective 
  (check appropriate box) 
 
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/ /  immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b) 
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/ X /  on January 30, 2017 pursuant to paragraph (b) 
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/ /  60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) 
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/ /  on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) 
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/ /  75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) 
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/ /  on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485. 
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  If appropriate, check the following box: 
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/ /  this post-effective amendment designates a new 
----  effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment. 
 
 
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  ROBERT T. BURNS, Vice President 
  PUTNAM TAX EXEMPT INCOME FUND 
  One Post Office Square 
  Boston, Massachusetts 02109 
  (Name and address of agent for service) 
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  Copy to: 
  BRYAN CHEGWIDDEN, Esquire 
  ROPES & GRAY LLP 
  1211 Avenue of the Americas 
  New York, New York 10036 
 
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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and has duly caused this Amendment to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Boston, and The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 16th day of February, 2017.

 

 

  Putnam Tax Exempt Income Fund
By: /s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, Executive Vice President,
  Principal Executive Officer and Compliance Liaison

 

 

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated:

 

 

Signature Title

 

Jameson A. Baxter* Chair, Board of Trustees

 

Kenneth R. Leibler* Vice Chair, Board of Trustees

 

Robert L. Reynolds* President and Trustee

 

Jonathan S. Horwitz* Executive Vice President, Principal Executive Officer
  and Compliance Liaison

 

Janet C. Smith** Vice President, Principal Financial Officer,
Principal Accounting Officer and Assistant Treasurer

 

Liaquat Ahamed* Trustee

 

Ravi Akhoury* Trustee

 

Barbara M. Baumann* Trustee

 

Robert J. Darretta* Trustee

 

Katinka Domotorffy* Trustee

 

John A. Hill* Trustee

 

Paul L. Joskow* Trustee

 

Robert E. Patterson* Trustee

 

George Putnam, III* Trustee

 

W. Thomas Stephens* Trustee

 

 

 

By: /s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, as Attorney-in-Fact

February 16, 2017

 

*Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective Amendment No.48 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on January 25, 2013.

 

**Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective Amendment No. 56 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on January 27, 2017


Exhibit Index

 

 

XBRL Instance Document Ex-101.ins
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document Ex-101.sch
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase Ex-101.lab
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document Ex-101.pre
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Ex-101.def

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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