The Christmas Lottery will distribute 2,772 million euros in prizes this year
According to provisional data, the average per capita expenditure in the ACV is 87.43 euros, while in Navarre it is 58.62 euros. It remains to be seen whether Hego Euskal Herria is lucky as it was two years ago.
As every year, on Monday, 22 December, theExtraordinary Draw of the Christmas Lottery will take place. This year will distribute2,772 million euros in prizes, 70 million euros more than last year.
According to provisional data, the Christmas Lottery has been allocated 195 and 39.7 million euros, respectively, in the Basque Autonomous Community (CAV) and Navarre. In other words, the average expenditure is 87.43 and 58.62 euros /inhabitant.
Last year the Gordo refused to visit Hego Euskal Herria, but the rest of the prizes left 43 million euros.
The first prize, the Gordo, is 4 million euros per series (400,000 euros per tenth), the second prize is 1.25 million euros (125,000 euros per tenth) and the third prize is 500,000 euros (50,000 euros per tenth), and there are also two fourth prizes (200,000 euros per series and 20,000 euros per tenth) and eight fifths (60,000 euros per series and 6,000 euros per tenth).
Those who receive a prize equal to or less than40,000 euroswill not be taxed. Above that, they will have to contribute 20% to the Treasury. Thus, those who have a tenth corresponding to the main prize will receive 328,000 euros, those who have a second prize will receive 108,000 euros and those who have a third prize will receive 40,000 euros.
The jackpot has fallen about 40 times in Hego Euskal Herria.
The first prize of the extraordinary Christmas lottery draw has fallen 40 times in the administrations of the Basque Country and Navarre. Bilbo has been the luckiest in the capitals, the main prize has been sold 16 times in the capital city: 1814, 1908, 1933, 1937, 1955, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1970, 1986, 2012, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2023.
In Donostia-San Sebastián has played eight times, in 1888, 1910, 1920, 1975, 1986, 2003, 2018 and 2023. In Pamplona berriz, this first prize has been sold in six, in 1829, 1853, 1974, 2018 and 2022. In Vitoria-Gasteiz, luck is against them.
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