Receipt lottery: here’s who could win on 13 August – the prizes are tax-free

Once you have obtained your lottery code, you can present it with every purchase made at participating retailers and businesses. Your receipt will generate virtual tickets to enter the lottery: one virtual ticket for every euro spent. If the amount spent is more than one euro, any decimal amount in excess of 49 cents will generate another virtual ticket.

You have 90 days from receipt of the notification to claim your prize; once this period has elapsed, prizes can no longer be claimed and will be paid to the Treasury. The Customs and Monopolies Agency notifies winners of their prize via certified email (if a certified email address has been provided in the ‘reserved area’) or by registered post with acknowledgement of receipt to the residential address or tax domicile recorded in the National Register of Resident Population (ANPR) or in the Tax Register (if the certified email address has not been provided in the ‘reserved area’ section, or is not active, or if the inbox is full at the time of notification).

For successful applicants too, priority will be given to notification via certified email (PEC); notification by registered post with acknowledgement of receipt to their tax address will be used only if the certified email address is not active or the inbox is full at the time of notification.

One of the key points to bear in mind is that winnings are not taxed. This is also stated in the FAQs: ‘Lottery prizes are not subject to any tax.’ All the more reason to take part.