Form 485BPOS PUTNAM TAX FREE INCOME
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| As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on |
December 14, 2016
Registration No. 2-98790
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. 42 | / X / |
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| REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY | / X / |
| ACT OF 1940 | ---- |
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| Amendment No. 42 | / X / |
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PUTNAM TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
One Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02109
(Address of principal executive offices)
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, 2016 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-FREE INCOME TRUST
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
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 14th day of December, 2016.
| 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 |
| 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
December 14, 2016
| * Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective |
| Amendment No. 33 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement filed on | |
| November 28, 2012. |
| ** Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective Amendment | |
| No. 41 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on November 25, 2016 |
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