If a proposal to repeal the Massachusetts income tax succeeds, the likely slashing of annual state revenues, from $27 billion to $14 billion, “would be disastrous beyond compare,” especially for nonprofits, State Sen. Dianne Wilkerson (D-Second Suffolk) told more than 100 nonprofit leaders this morning.

“We will not be able to ignore a mandate to drop the income tax,” according to Wilkerson, speaking in Boston to a regional meeting convened by Massachusetts Nonprofit Network, the state’s nonprofit trade association.

She added, “You better learn how your nonprofit can engage [on this issue] without violating any rules.”

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BOSTON—More than 150 organizations from Greater Boston will share concerns with a dozen Boston-area legislators on issues affecting the nonprofit sector at the first regional meeting of the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network-Greater Boston, to be held Tuesday, April 8, 9-11am, at the Boston Foundation.
The meeting’s legislative panel is [...]