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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Congratulations to the lottery company who was allowed to advertise a $400m prize as $1.28b.

[–] Kecessa 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep, that's the real issue!

Over here it's not taxed so prizes are smaller but they represent reality!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

where? In Europe (euromillions) only prizes below 5k are exempt of taxation everything else is taxed 20%

[–] Kecessa 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Canada

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

ok, nice!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So tax the tickets and not the prizes? I could get behind that.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

You'd get significantly more if you didn't take it in a lump sum