Massachusetts » Referendums
 

Sales Tax Roll Back

Proponent:The Alliance to Roll Back Taxes
Status:On Ballot
 

Enough signatures have been collected to put a question to roll back the state's 6.25-percent sales tax to 3-percent on the November ballot.

 

Sales Tax on Alcohol

Proponent:Liquor stores
Status:On Ballot
 

The ballot question would end a tax on the sale of alcohol in Massachusetts, a measure that was just approved on last year's ballot.

 

Permits for Low-Income Housing

Proponent:The Coalition to Repeal 40B
Status:On Ballot
 

A question to repeal the state's affordable-housing law will appear on the November ballot.

 
 
 
 

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Offices & Officials

Governor: Deval Patrick
Lieutenant Governor: Tim Murray
Attorney General: Martha Coakley
Secretary of State: Bill Galvin