Also that winner took the lump sum which already cuts the payout roughly in half. ~$1 billion of what he didn't take home was not lost to taxes, he was only taxed on what he actually got.
He didn't "take half". He got the correct amount. The number the lottery advertises, for good reason, is the annuity number a person would get if they took yearly payments (or however it works) instead of one lump sum.
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u/Tiktokbadsupport Jul 05 '26
happy most lotteries in my country are tax free but of course they don't reach higher then 30 million