THE Christmas Lottery Millions of Spaniards play it and hope that their current account will change with the millions of euros at stake. All over Spain, people are lining up to buy their tenth and wait … the meeting of December 22, where they hope that the children of San Ildefonso sing your number.
And many people take the opportunity to buy a tenth of it, for example, during their vacation. This can also happen that a stranger I want to queue up to buy a tenth. Can they really?
Can a foreigner participate in the Christmas Lottery?
In principle, if you are an adult, you can buy a ticket normally. The problem is what will happen if that happens. How can they get it back?
To do this, it is necessary to differentiate between prices below 2,000 euros, recoverable online. In this case, there would be no problem for them. Complications arise when this price is equal to or higher than the figure.
What is Spanish regulations regarding the collection of prices is that these must be collected in an affiliated banking entity, so that 20% is imposed on the Treasury if the price is greater than 40,000 euros. So, in the event that a foreigner wins the Christmas lottery, he will have to go to Spain to collect his tenth.
This is how a Spaniard can collect the Christmas lottery
And what happens to Spaniards who live outside the country? It is the same case as for foreigners. Collecting a Christmas lottery prize has nothing to do with nationality, but with where the person lives, so if the prizes are more than 2,000 euros, they must return to Spain to receive the prize.
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