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• goldrush

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  Sep 22, 2005, 6:49 am

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  OZ Lotto luck continues to pour into NSW as another OZ Lotto truckload of cash delivers $4 million to Maroubra in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs.
  
  The lucky winner is now $4 Million richer after scooping the entire First Division National Prize pool in OZ Lotto last night.
  
  Although they are a registered player NSW Lotteries has been unable to contact them by telephone this morning. A message awaits the lucky winner and all they have to do is ring back, to be told they are now a multi millionaire.

   

  http://www.nswlotteries.com.au/news/newsindex.html?story=1895
• Todd

  

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  ($4 miilion AUD = $3 million USD, for those interested.)

   

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• acronym007

  

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  Correct if I'm wrong but that's also tax-free? Nice!!!!
• dvdiva

  

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  It's like Canada and Europe, tax free and cash. It's too bad US lotteries don't follow suite on this.
  
• BobP

  

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  It isn't tax free, the tax is paid in the tickets purchased, not out of the jackpot.  Everyone pays a tiny bit of tax so the winner doesn't have to, unless they take the prize back to the states.  A good system if you ask me.  Nice lottery games if only they had a 3# prize :-(sigh), my eight lines have three correct more often then not, but those four number wins come too far apart.  Still at less then fifty cents a play from the U.S. for the Monday Million I'm not complaining too much.    More on it here http://www.lotto-logix.com/ozlotteries.html  Throw another platypus on the barbie, wonder what those things taste like, duck or rat? Well if I win I can afford not to eat it.   BobP
  
  
  
• acronym007

  

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  Here's the point, the jackpot is tax free!!!! I wish the US would follow suit.
• Chewie

  

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  Yeah, right! Politicians are already lining up to eliminate money from their own control. Lets see, the people who vote their own pay scale, the people who vote their own medical benefits, the people who vote their own retirement, the people who rely on Pork Projects to get re-elected - sure they'll look out for the little guy. You're taxed when you are born. You're are taxed when you die. Thanks to Clinton, the dead were taxed six months after they were buried. Tax free Lottery? Thats funny. Hehehehehe.

  

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