Form 485BPOS PUTNAM TAX FREE INCOME
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E-mail| As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on | ||
| December 16, 2019 | ||
| Registration No. 002-98790 | ||
| 811-04345 | ||
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| 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. 49 | / X / | |
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| REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY | / X / | |
| ACT OF 1940 | ---- | |
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| Amendment No. 49 | / X / | |
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| PUTNAM TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST | ||
| (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter) | ||
| 100 Federal Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110 | ||
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code) | ||
| Registrant's Telephone Number, including Area Code | ||
| (617) 292-1000 | ||
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| 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 November 30, 2019 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 | |
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| ROBERT T. BURNS, Vice President | ||
| PUTNAM TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST | ||
| 100 Federal Street | ||
| Boston, Massachusetts 02110 | ||
| (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 | ||
This Post-Effective Amendment relates solely to the Registrant's Putnam AMT- Free Municipal Fund and Putnam Tax Free High Yield Fund series. Information contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement relating to any other series of the Registrant is neither amended nor superseded hereby
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 December, 2019.
| Putnam Tax-Free Income Trust on behalf of |
| Putnam AMT-Free Municipal Fund |
| Putnam Tax-Free High Yield 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 |
| Kenneth R. Leibler* | 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 |
| Katinka Domotorffy* | Trustee |
| Catharine Bond Hill* | Trustee |
| Paul L. Joskow* | Trustee |
| Robert E. Patterson* | Trustee |
| George Putnam, III* | Trustee |
| Manoj P. Singh* | Trustee |
| By: /s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, as Attorney-in-Fact |
| December 16, 2019. |
| * Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed herewith. |
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