Citizens for Limited Taxation is the largest taxpayers association in Massachusetts. CLT was founded in 1974 to defend state taxpayers against a proposed state graduated income tax, which it defeated on the 1976 statewide ballot and again on the 1994 ballot. CLT also limited property taxes with Proposition 2½ in 1980 and created a state tax cap in 1986.

CLT is staffed by Barbara Anderson (executive director), Chip Ford (director of operations), associate director Chip Faulkner and executive assistant Loretta Hayden.

Citizens for Limited Taxation vigilantly strives to limit taxes, return to the taxpayers of Massachusetts as much of their hard-earned income as possible, and limit the size, growth, power and reach of government at all levels.  In 1999 CLT celebrated its 25th year as the lone voice of the beleaguered Massachusetts taxpayer.

CLT's 25th Anniversary Banquet
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A Promise to Keep: 5% was the most recent CLT ballot committee. Beginning in the fall of 1997, our ballot committee organized two statewide petition drives (1997 and 1999) with the intent of rolling back the eleven-year old "temporary" income tax increase.

The first effort was defeated by the Massachusetts Teachers Association and the Tax Equity Alliance of Massachusetts in a bruising court challenge of our signatures. After months of back-and-forth signature recounts, our petition was rejected by the court for falling 26 signatures short.

With the support and leadership of Governor Paul Cellucci, our second attempt in 1999 produced over twice the required number of signatures, some 150,000.

Question 4 on the November 2000 ballot, our "temporary" tax rollback, won overwhelmingly by 59-41 percent of the statewide vote.

Please contact us for more details on how you can help us defend you against More-Is-Never-Enough big government and its minions who shamelessly shill for it. Better yet ... join us and help yourself survive the insatiable greed of bigger government special interests like the teachers' and public employees' unions which relentlessly feed at the public trough, at your expense.

As the wise old Benjamin Franklin noted: "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we will all hang separately."

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The (Proposition) 2½ PAC, CLT's political action committee, supports candidates who commit to defend the citizens from intrusive and oppressive state government, and who take the CLT "No New Taxes" pledge.  Its executive director is Francis "Chip" Faulkner.

On the national level, CLT is a member of the "Leave Us Alone Coalition" of the Washington-based Americans for Tax Reform, and a member of the National Taxpayers Union.

CLT also is a member of the World Taxpayers Associations, which meets bi-annually in one of the member nations to compare national tax policies and discuss international taxpayer strategies.