Even if it may have been a factor in former Boston Celtics restricted free agent Grant Williams electing to decamp from Boston to the Dallas Mavericks, Celtics co-owner Steven Pagliuca recently related that Massachusetts’ so-called “millionaire’s tax” was not a factor in the co-governor’s decision to sell his home in the state to relocate to Florida.
Recently retired from his main gig working for Bain Capital, Pagliuca said that “now that I am not coming back and working there, I’m really not living there” in an interview with Boston Business Journal’s Greg Ryan. Still, the Celtics co-owner admitted that taxes are a factor considered by players.
“Generally, punitive tax measures will make it more attractive for higher earners, whether basketball players or not, to go to … lower tax states.”
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As for at least some of the animus to move to the Sunshine State if taxes were not the cause, Pags admitted that the “winters have been fantastic.”
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