165 Belgians in one town share €143 million EuroMillions jackpot

Comment #11

Dead_Aim — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 07:25:11 GMT

First of all why is the government getting a cut period!? Second of all they won two billion. If the take lump sum (cut in half) then they pay your quoted taxes. But that is taxes on one billion, not two like they advertised they won. Take 37% of TWO billion and see what they would have to pay. And again, why is the government getting a cut at all? And why 37%, the highest bracket they can charge?More countries don't tax their lottery winners than the ones that do...

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Comment #10

KY Floyd — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 06:48:47 GMT

The recent winner of the 2 billion dollar powerball prize in CA will get taxed 740 Million

Since you want to help subsidize their taxes maybe you could start a GoFundMe page for them. And the good news is you only need to raise $369 million.

Comment #9

welington — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 06:03:07 GMT

Nice win . Congrats to all

Comment #8

Dead_Aim — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 19:15:55 GMT

The movie is Waking Ned Devine (not Ted). not sure if that was me or autocorrect. I blame autocorrect. lol

but it is a movie about the lottery and a whole town too. lol

Comment #7

Dead_Aim — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 17:59:39 GMT

This story reminded me of the Movie Waking Ted Devine , if you haven't seen it you are missing out. It is Funny!!

Tax Free winnings!! I think I heard angels singing when I read that.

Now you wanna be totally disgusted?

If you win Powerball in the States you can be charged up to 37% in taxes and that is just federally. that is even before your state get their share. if you live in one of those that taxes Lottery as well.

And we let them do this to us? WHY?

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Comment #6

js1237 — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 08:51:38 GMT

I got it thanks. I was confusing the converted rate, below.

Each individual winner receives almost 900,000 ($952,128) tax-free, EuroMillions spokesperson Joke Vermoere told Reuters.

Comment #5

Petrust99 — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 04:52:17 GMT

Tax free /Tax free...You get what you see,not advertised.

Comment #4

js1237 — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 04:31:08 GMT

A Big Congrats to all the winners$$$.

Based on the numbers, it seems that the taxes were super low at around 6% and that's what is should also be in the USA...Wishful Thinking.

Comment #3

Mata Garbo — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 01:49:54 GMT

When I think about a small village of 3,700 people celebrating the lucky lottery winners at Christmas time, for some reason I imagine the village to be similar to a Thomas Kinkade painting. Congrats to all the winners and Merry Christmas to all.

Comment #2

Bleudog101 — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 22:14:52 GMT

Beautiful heartwarming story. A very Merry Christmas to all those winners.

Tax free winnings WTG

Comment #1

noise-gate — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 19:57:53 GMT

$900K * Tax Free- l'll take it.

Congratulations to the 165 guys gals. What a way to end the year

165 Belgians in one town share €143 million EuroMillions jackpot

Lottery Post — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 19:25:33 GMT

Christmas came early for one small Belgian village

By Kate Northrop

165 townspeople in Olmen, Belgium are jumping for joy after they collectively won a 142.89 million ($149.92 million) EuroMillions jackpot.

A small village in northern Belgium is bustling with holiday spirit this year after a lottery pool consisting of 165 residents won the EuroMillions jackpot.

On Dec. 6, 2022, a group of townspeople all chipped in 15 for the evening's EuroMillions drawing to a pot organized by a... [ More ]