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MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUND. v. SECRETARY OF ADMIN.

398 Mass. 40 (1986)

494 N.E.2d 1311

MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION, INC., & others vs. SECRETARY OF ADMINISTRATION & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcia Drake Seeler, Wayne S. Henderson, Margaret H. Marshall, Richard A. Wiley, & Leonard M. Singer for the plaintiffs.

Francis X. Bellotti, Attorney General, E. Michael Sloman & Stephen S. Ostrach, Assistant Attorneys General, for the defendants.

Julia K. Johnson & Burton A. Nadler for John W. Olver & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

LYNCH, J.

This complaint for declaratory judgment, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County and reported here by a single justice, seeks a declaration that the provisions of St. 1985, c. 593, § 6, which establish a graduated system of exemptions from the Massachusetts personal income tax are unconstitutional. The case was reported to us by a single justice for our decision of the following question: "Do the provisions of Section 6 of Chapter 593...

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