• Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    How the fuck can you win 96 million on a lottery and only receive 57 mil?

    Is that a Freedom©®™ thing the rest of us wouldn’t understand? 😂

    • Mac@mander.xyz
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      3 months ago

      Taxes.
      …Which the rest of the world understands well. So why don’t you?

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        3 months ago

        In germany the lottery is state owned and the tax is applied before money is added to the jackpot. So if the jackpot is 50mil you get 50mil

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          Yeah getting taxed on winnings is fucking insane, and they just say “it is what it is”

          Is there any way they don’t get fucked in the arse every time they get money 😂

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            3 months ago

            Find a big(trillions) finance firm to move your money into tax differed assets. They’ll move the money around so it doesn’t get taxed and provide ways to access however much money you need right now. Probably loans against whatever assets you bought.

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        I don’t understand being taxed on winnings, to be honest

        But yous get taxed on working abroad 😂😂

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          But yous get taxed on working abroad 😂😂

          not american, but i believe this only applies if you pay less income tax in the country you’re working in than what the US would tax, and given the US income tax is relatively low compared to the rest of the world it rarely actually kicks in

          and, it actually kinda makes sense IMO - the US is one of the most global countries in the world: as a US citizen you benefit (???) from the USes extensive international presence (eg if you’re held for ransom in a developing country, or in danger the US state department or military could intervene and probably do the most out of any country) even if you’re not in the country… and all that costs money, so it kinda makes some amount of sense

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      You have a choice: get 57M or get an annuity that costs 57M and pays out 96M over two decades

      If you took the 57 million and invested it in an index fund you would probably do better than 96M over the same timespan, though you would probably be taxed more and have to be responsible enough to not spend the money instead