Friend Buys you A lottery Ticket....

birdbox · 03-04-2014 02:50PM #1

Friend Buys you A lottery Ticket. For your birthday etc and you win a million
Would you....
A...Send a thank you note ?
B...Buy them a holiday etc worth 2/5 K ?
C...Give them half ?
D... Say Nothing ?
E....?

03-04-2014 02:51PM

Pint.

GenieOz · 03-04-2014 02:51PM

Give them half.
You'd be a serious bag of shít if you didn't.

Ihatecuddles · 03-04-2014 02:52PM

Give them half! Would feel even better to share it

force eleven · 03-04-2014 02:52PM

Refund him the price of the ticket. Quits.

Hooked · 03-04-2014 02:53PM

birdbox wrote: »

Friend Buys you A lottery Ticket. For your birthday etc and you win a million
Would you....
A...Send a thank you note ?
B...Buy them a holiday etc worth 2/5 K ?
C...Give them half ?
D... Say Nothing ?
E....?

E....lope

snaphook · 03-04-2014 02:53PM

€100k and a Pint.

hatrickpatrick · 03-04-2014 02:54PM

Give them half. If nothing else, f*ck being rich alone - what's the point of being able to afford to do loads of mad things if you have to do them by yourself?

whomitconcerns · 03-04-2014 02:54PM

half...no way...for a million quid...i would give them 50k so by that ratio Dolores would owe her mate 5.8million..wow...

gazzer · 03-04-2014 02:54PM

I think I would have to give them half. It would be only fair imo

GenieOz · 03-04-2014 02:55PM

whomitconcerns wrote: »

half...no way...for a million quid...i would give them 50k

you realise you'd have nothing if it wasn't for them, right?

Incredibly selfish attitude.

BNMC · 03-04-2014 02:55PM

I'd go for option E. Definitely.

Boom_Bap · 03-04-2014 02:55PM

They are no longer a friend, they are just another peasant.

snaphook · 03-04-2014 02:55PM

Alternatively, if you gave someone a ticket would you expect anything if they won a million??

GreeBo · 03-04-2014 02:56PM

GenieOz wrote: »

you realise you'd have nothing if it wasn't for them, right?

Incredibly selfish attitude.

Do you always give half of your gifts back?

The Master · 03-04-2014 02:56PM

Buy new friends

Gannicus · 03-04-2014 02:56PM

Dunno if I'd give them half but I'd defo give them a good few quid.

GenieOz · 03-04-2014 02:57PM

GreeBo wrote: »

Do you always give half of your gifts back?

If my gifts are ever an opportunity that multiply into something more then yes, I do.
I won €250 on a scratchcard bought for me before, 125 to the person that bought it.

Caliden · 03-04-2014 02:57PM

GenieOz wrote: »

you realise you'd have nothing if it wasn't for them, right?

Incredibly selfish attitude.

And if you gave them half, 33% would be gone straight away on tax. Waste.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/cat/leaflets/cat1.html

snaphook · 03-04-2014 02:57PM

GenieOz wrote: »

you realise you'd have nothing if it wasn't for them, right?

Incredibly selfish attitude.

Why didn't they just buy a ticket themselves in that case.
It's equally selfish to expect to share in someone else's windfall.
An incredibly entitled attitude.

Once you hand it over it isn't yours anymore and are entitled to fawk all.

Hooked · 03-04-2014 02:58PM

snaphook wrote: »

Alternatively, if you gave someone a ticket would you expect anything if they won a million??

Good way of looking at it... I buy someone a lotto ticket, they win a million... I get a pint, 50 grand, half?

I'd be pissed with anything less than half.

So, I'd definitely E...lope!

GenieOz · 03-04-2014 02:59PM

Caliden wrote: »

And if you gave them half, 33% would be gone straight away on tax. Waste.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/cat/leaflets/cat1.html

Unless you say it was a syndicate. not a waste.

snaphook wrote: »

Why didn't they just buy a ticket themselves in that case.
It's equally selfish to expect to share in someone else's windfall.
An incredibly entitled attitude.

Once you hand it over it isn't yours anymore and are entitled to fawk all.

It's not the person expecting the money back. It's what I believe people should be expected to do. It's the right thing imo, and not doing it is selfish.

whomitconcerns · 03-04-2014 02:59PM

I think the lesson here is most people expect half of your winnings if they give you a ticket as a present....so they want to give you a present with strings attached. Some friends!! :P

Riskymove · 03-04-2014 03:00PM

Caliden wrote: »

And if you gave them half, 33% would be gone straight away on tax. Waste.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/cat/leaflets/cat1.html

if you both sign the ticket and claim it together then no tax

Hooked · 03-04-2014 03:01PM

Caliden wrote: »

And if you gave them half, 33% would be gone straight away on tax. Waste.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/cat/leaflets/cat1.html

The revenue can go fücking swivel on it.

Tax me hole... On a lotto win?
Fūck right off.

No way I'd be declaring that!

GreeBo · 03-04-2014 03:02PM

GenieOz wrote: »

If my gifts are ever an opportunity that multiply into something more then yes, I do.
I won €250 on a scratchcard bought for me before, 125 to the person that bought it.

What if 100 friends buy you lotto tickets for your birthday, divide by 100?

GenieOz · 03-04-2014 03:04PM

GreeBo wrote: »

What if 100 friends buy you lotto tickets for your birthday, divide by 100?

Er, if they're all winning lotto tickets then divide each one by two?
I don't know where you're coming from with that.

Caliden · 03-04-2014 03:04PM

Hooked wrote: »

The revenue can go fücking swivel on it.

Tax me hole... On a lotto win?
Fūck right off.

No way I'd be declaring that!

A lotto win isn't taxed but if you gave half /50k / x amount away to someone, that can be taxed as a gift. The taxable amount depends on your relationship to the recipient of said gift.

Seve OB · 03-04-2014 03:04PM

Look at it another way.

You buy 2 lotto quick pick tickets. One for yourself and one for a present.... even let the person decide which ticket they would like.

Your gifted ticket wins. do you expect half the prize?

Your own ticket wins. do you give away half the prize?

mikom · 03-04-2014 03:05PM

I'd donate half to REHAB in their name.

GenieOz · 03-04-2014 03:07PM

stevieob wrote: »

Look at it another way.

You buy 2 lotto tickets. One for yourself and one for a present.... even let the person decide which ticket they would like.

Your gifted ticket wins. do you expect half the prize?

Your own ticket wins. do you give away half the prize?

Wouldn't give away my own ticket, as it's my ticket that I bought.
Wouldn't expect them to give me half either.

However if I received the ticket as a gift, something I otherwise would not have had then yes, I'd give away half.

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