25 years of English victories
The National Lottery — один из самых известных потребительских брендов Великобритании. Some of her achievements can be mentioned:
95% of income The National Lottery returns to the winners and the society
* When compared in comparable numbers, then Russian lotteries return to winners and society about 60-70% (including: 50% prize fund and 5% earmarked contributions to the state)
The lottery made millionaires in a quarter of a century 5 350 man
To understand the scale: Millionaires are players, winners 1 £ million or more (if you transfer to our money, then these are amounts from 80 million rubles!)
Society as a whole benefits from gambling through the grant system: лотерея финансирует проекты в сферах искусства, sports, heritage, charity, volunteering, health care, education and environmental protection.
Interesting, that the players of the National Lottery literally decide for themselves, whom to support with money. Grant recipient (from 300 to 10 000 pounds) any project can be nominated: ranging from community centers in small towns and villages to iconic landmarks such as the Angel of the North or world-class stadiums.
Annually, на BBC проходит National Lottery Awards — национальная лотерейная премия демонстрирующая, that ordinary people do unusual things with funding from the National Lottery.
Только за прошлый год 17 048 charitable organizations received more than 1,3 billion pounds sterling
The money collected by the National Lotteries is distributed 12 funds, guaranteeing, that the funds will go there, where is it needed. Among them:
- Arts Council of England (mission is to provide great art for everyone) - National Heritage Fund (preserving and transforming the UK heritage through innovative projects) - British Film Institute (creating a thriving cinematic environment) - National Lottery Community Foundation (funds for projects and events for people, helping different communities to thrive) — Creative Scotland (government body supporting the arts of cinema and creativity in all of Scotland) - Council of the Arts of Northern Ireland (art projects, initiatives and activities) - Arts Council for Wales
and 5 funds, developing sports
A large number of grants from the National Lottery (На каждый район почтового индекса Великобритании приходится более 200 granted grants) are an important element of the system, as a result of which lottery money benefits communities across the country, in big and small matters, and everyone - can see and evaluate these results.
In just 25 years of its history, the UK National Lottery has helped collect over 40 billion pounds sterling for more than 565 000 projects. This is an amazing result., and a great example to follow.
Payout of prizes
Winnings (in USA) not necessarily paid in a lump sum , contrary to the expectations of many lottery participants. In some countries, mainly in the USA, the winner can choose between an annuity payment and a lump sum. One-time payment ( cash or lump sum payment ) represents the "smaller" amount, than announced (annuity) jackpot, even before applying any deductions, to which the prize is subject. While withholdings vary by jurisdiction and how winnings are invested, supposed, what's the winner, chooses a lump sum, expects to receive 13 of the advertised jackpot at the end of the tax year. In this way, jackpot winner 100000000 US dollars, who will pick cash, can count on a net amount of 33 333 333,33 USD after filing tax documents for the year, in which the jackpot was won.
Lottery annuities often range from 20 to 30 years. Some lotteries in the USA, especially those, which offer a "lifetime" prize, don't offer a lump sum option. According to some experts, it is better to choose an annuity, than a lump sum, especially those, who have no investment experience.
In some online lotteries, the annual payout is only 25000 dollars, and in the last year, a one-time payment is paid . This type of installment payment is often done by investing in securities, provided by the state. Online lotteries pay winners through their insurance . However, many winners choose the lump sum, as they think, that they can get a higher rate of return on their investment elsewhere.
In some countries, lottery winnings are not subject to personal income tax , therefore, tax implications should not be considered when choosing a payment method. In France, Canada, Australia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Finland and the UK all prizes are immediately paid in a lump sum and are tax-free to the winner. In Liechtenstein, all winnings are tax-free, and the winner can choose to receive a lump sum or annuity in relation to the jackpot prizes.
In the United States, federal courts have consistently asserted, that the lump sum, received from third parties in exchange for rights to lottery annuities, are not capital assets for tax purposes. Rather, the lump sum is subject to normal income tax deductible.
Some people hire a third party, to cash out a lottery ticket. This can be done for, to avoid paying income tax, to hide the gain from alimony or money laundering, obtained from illegal activities; some jurisdictions investigate too frequent "winnings" and may freeze payments, to prevent these abuses.
In jurisdictions, where public disclosure is required for winners, to claim your prizes, some winners may hire an attorney, to create a blind trust for them, so they can claim their prize and remain anonymous. This is for, so that winners can avoid being scammed, jealousy and other flaws, that can occur when winning a lottery jackpot.
History
Legislation from 1698 the year indicated, that all lotteries in England are illegal, other than directly approved by the state. Act 1934 of the year, as well as subsequent acts 1956 and 1976 years, legalized some small lotteries. The state lottery in Great Britain was founded by the government of John Major in 1993 year. The British National Lottery is operated by a private organization, Camelot Group got a lottery under its control 25 May 1994 of the year. The first draw has passed 19 November 1994 years in a television program with host Noel Edmonds. The first winning combination was the following numbers: 30, 3, 5, 44, 14, 22 + bonus ball 10. Seven winners split the jackpot of £ 5,874,778.
Tickets are on sale on the Isle of Man 2 December 1999 of the year.
IN 2002 The British National Lottery underwent a major update to boost ticket sales. The main game has been renamed to Lotto (Lotto), and National Lottery Extra was renamed to Lotto Extra (Lotto Extra). The crossed fingers logo has also been redesigned. However, the entire gaming community is still known as National lottery. It is one of the most popular types of gambling in the UK.
In November 2009 of the year "Camelot" has updated its lottery machines. The new devices are called Arthur, Ginevra, Lancelot and Marilyn, like their predecessors. At the same time, new devices were presented for the game Thunder ball (Thunderball). All new devices correspond to the Magnum II model manufactured by SmartPlay International Inc., new devices for the game Thunder-ball - SmartPlay Halogen II models.
Half a billion happiness
Grand Prize, whose size 435 000 000 dollars, managed to pick up the participant, correctly designated 5 the main numbers of the game and one additional. In the Powerball lottery, they are indicated in red and white., respectively.
One player won, therefore there was no need to distribute the prize amount. The founders of the lottery game do not currently advertise information regarding the personal data of the winner, especially his citizenship. It is only known that, that the winning game ticket was purchased in Louisiana from the Lafayette store.
Hearing such news, many immediately wonder: "How to play foreign lotteries in Russia?». And here there is already good news. As they say, who seeks will always find. In our case, we are talking about options for online participation.
If you are interested in the lottery and are already looking for, how to buy a Powerball ticket (Powerball), you should first familiarize yourself with the rules and features of the game. Buying tickets for domestic lottery games on the Internet is very different from buying tickets for American games.. You should spend enough time studying the nuances, so as not to lose your money.
Over the past few years, Powerball has become available online for players in many countries, including Russia. Respectively, the number of foreign participants and the number of large prizes they won began to grow. This fact so outraged the residents of the United States., that they even began to file complaints with the authorities.
Situation, at first sight, seems pretty ridiculous, because Russians or other foreign players cannot turn away Luck from American participants. The main thing is that such complaints do not in any way affect the participation of Russian players..
A brief history of the Veikkaus Lotto Finland
The first lotteries in Finland were organized in the 1940s. The Finnish government has since licensed all games and regulated the process of playing and receiving prizes.
Finland Lotto is also known as Veikkaus Lotto. It was launched in 1971 year, the first draw took place in January of the same year. With time, Veikkaus Lotto became the most popular in Finland, despite, that the inhabitants of the country can choose among more than 20 games.
Interesting to note, that the format of the game has remained unchanged from the very beginning of its existence. This format makes Veikkaus Lotto completely different from other national lotteries., and also increases the chances of winning.
Fraud and fraud
Lottery, like any other type of gambling, susceptible to fraud, despite the high degree of care, declared by the organizers. There are numerous lottery scams .
Some types of online prepaid scams are lottery-based. Scam starts with spam, Congratulations to the recipient on a recent lottery win. The email explains, that in order to free up funds, the recipient of the email must part with a certain amount (in the form of taxes / fees) according to the rules, otherwise there is a risk of confiscation.
Another form of fraud involves the sale of "systems", whose purpose – increase the player's chances of picking winning numbers in the lottery. These scams are usually based on a customer misunderstanding (maybe, and the seller) probability and random numbers. However, the sale of these systems or software is legal, since they mention, that the product cannot guarantee a win, not to mention the jackpot.
There have also been several cases, when cashiers in lottery shops tried to lure their winnings from customers. In some places, the buyer must hand over the lottery ticket to the cashier, to determine, how much did they win, or, if they won at all, the cashier then scans the ticket, to define one or both. In those cases, when the client does not see or hears a signal about the scan results, some cashiers took the opportunity to declare, that the ticket is a loser or that it costs much less, what he is, and offer to "throw it out". “or secretly replace it with another ticket. Then the cashier puts the ticket in his pocket and takes it as his.
In the BBC series "Real vanity" was the lottery variant is shown, in which a group of scammers pretended to be, what won the lottery, but they were prevented from taking the prize, since man, who wrote the name on the back of the ticket, presumably absent. countries on this day. They managed to convince a stranger to deposit money as collateral, to split the prize pool.
In some cases, the lottery itself has been compromised by fraudsters. 1980 Pennsylvania lottery scandal involved weighing balls in . In a fraud scandal Hot Lotto в random number generator Hot Lotto code has been added, allowing a cheater to predict winning numbers on certain days of the year.
IN 2003 year Canadian geological statistician Mohan Srivastava discovered non-random patterns in the tickets "tic-tac-toe", sold by the Lottery and Gaming Corporation of Ontario . Tic-tac-toe was taken off the shelves and became the first game, ever remembered by OLG.
