
Although lottery administrators continue to request its total suppression, the controversial tax that taxes lottery prizes, since January 1, disappears for all those prizes that do not exceed € 40,000. This means that for example the first prize of the Thursday lottery is exempt from taxation, like most of the prizes that are currently given. A tenth of Saturday"s lottery of a draw such as January 18 that charges € 100,000 to the tenth, with the current withholding, € 88,000 is charged after taxes, and if it is from an ordinary draw of € 6, the prize of which is € 60,000 the amount received is € 56,000, the second and third prizes of all draws, except Christmas and children whose amounts are greater, being exempt.