Campaign & Political Finance Reports
Campaign Finance Reporting Requirements
Your first filing is the 8th day preceding the election. For municipal election candidates use form CPF M 102.
The next form filed would be 30 days after the election. The post election report can be considered the final report if candidate has no cash balance, assets, or outstanding liabilities.
The Year-End Report must be filed every year so long as the committee is in existence, or the candidate maintains a campaign fund, has outstanding debts, or is an incumbent elected official.
Schedule E (Disclosure of Assets) should also be filed with the Year-End Report in order for the report to be considered complete.
If a candidate has received no contributions, made no expenditures, incurred no obligations during the reporting period, and does not have a campaign fund in existence, then the candidate may find it easier to file form CPF M 102-0 (Campaign Finance Report). The filing deadlines are the same as above, but only a signature is required.
A subsequent year-end report is required for incumbents and candidates or committees that have continuing balances or liabilities or did not dissolve for the post-election report. The year-end report is due on January 20th of the following year (CPF M 102-0).
Copies of all forms are available in the Town Clerk’s Office. The forms may also be downloaded from the Office of Campaign and Political Finance’s website – http://www.mass.gov/ocpf.