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Tax has always been one frightening thing to have in mind and even there is a big number of business people who become the enemies of the government because they always try to do a lot of things to run away from paying tax. Tax has been a monster and it is not surprising at all because tax, in certain countries, can reach some unbelievable amount.

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Everyone must have remembered the 2nd biggest Powerball prize in history won last month. There were two lottery players winning a total of $590 million from the Power Ball and one of them, Mark Hill from Missouri, has claimed their prize and opted to take the prize cash, taking home around $200 before taxes. The other winner has not shown up yet until this week, when a man from Arizona stepped forward to claim his share.

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What you give you’ll get back. That’s an old saying and not everybody believes that but what happens to a Hayward resident named Frank Schmock has proven that it is true. He is a 69 year old man who has been taking care of his sick grandson suffering from cystic fibrosis and waiting to have the lung transplanted. He just won $$350,000 from a lottery which he has been a regular punter for more than 20 years but only after he takes care of his handicapped grandson that he wins such a big money.

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Almost all cashiers selling lottery tickets tell the ticket buyers to remember them if they win the lottery but not many of them care to share or even remember to share their winning prize to the lottery tickets sellers though they said so. Most of them forget their words once they win and celebrate their victory with the people they love.

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A EuroMillion jackpot worth £64 million will seem to go to the National Lottery Good Causes as no one has stood up yet for this lottery jackpot drawn a few months ago. This big amount of money, if not claimed until Wednesday, 11 pm, will definitely be used for the education or other public’s needs. That amount of money will add to more than £29 billion kept in the fund. The amount of money raised from the National lottery ticket sales has nearly reached £30 billion since it is launched in 1994.

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The last Powerball drawing on Wednesday was possibly the most waited as the jackpot has reached $579 million, the second biggest prize in the lottery history in the US. The prize could reach that amount because there were no winners for the past 16 weeks.

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Perhaps the thought of keeping a lottery winner’s name a secret can bring more benefits and keep the winners away from frauds and even murders, referring to a murder case trial which is still in progress in Tampa, Florida.  Debby Moore, (40) who is accused of killing a lottery winner, Abraham Shakespeare back in 2009,  probably did not have any cruel intentions to kill him and steal his money if she hadn’t known that he was a $30 Million jackpot winner.

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Nobody could match the Powerball number for the last couple of weeks making the jackpot skyrocket into $425 Million for the drawing on Wednesday, Nov 28th. It is a big money and if a punter is lucky, he will be a new millionaire in the world. He could really change his life and the life of people around him. But do you think the lottery winner should reveal his name or stay anonymous?

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It seems that people’s interest in playing lottery in the UK has increased rapidly over the years and it really helps to increase the business profits and also other funds. The Camelot group, the company that holds the license for the National Lottery in Britain presents some facts in their reports indicating that more people spend more money for lottery playing.

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Rossen Rusimov, a 47 year old father of two children must be the happiest and the luckiest man in Pernik, Bulgaria as he has become a new millionaire in the area after winning 4.7 million Bulgarian leva or as much as 2.4 million euro. He was one of the victims of the 5.8 Richter earthquakes hitting this mining town in May 2012 but now he would have more than enough money to rebuild his home, his business and help others.

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