Euromillions- what would your family get?!

I won the lottery last week. I must remember to go in and exchange it for a couple of scratch cards.

Fun topical trivia: the first and main message from the national lottery in Luxembourg, across all of its PR about €millions, is to maintain anonymity in case of a win.

€130m...even the Mrs wouldn't ever know

Semi-seriously though: no cash hand-outs to anyone, but a corpo structure created (behind oodles of further holdings cos to obfuscate who's behind), with a raft of non-exec appointments (family members, very few close 'quasi-family' friends), each with a moderate annual salary (up to €50-75k say, enough to improve average life substantially, not enough to upend lives/shock the system too hard) and full income tax/social sec contributions for respective health+pension rights. Besides educational trust funds for the younguns. And all to be funded from interests/dividends on invested/sheltered principal.

Get that sorted first, then relax and think about what I'd really like to do.

€130 million?

I'd give €100 million to my parents and keep the rest to spend how I please.

My aunt won the pools for something like £500k+ in the 1970's which obviously was quite the sum of money in those days. I remember her telling us that it pretty much "ruined" their lives as they knew it. Friends and family either accused them of flashing the cash or being mean...... They literally couldn't win. On top of that people called to their door looking for handouts all hours of the night. She ended up upping sticks and moving in the end.

My mothers cousin then (other side) won something like €12m in the irish lotto in the 00's and played an absolute blinder. Said nothing to a soul, denied everything when rumors started spreading but didn't go so much as on holiday then when it all died down she quietly sold up and moved to the other side of the country to "be near her son". We were far enough away in the family tree that you wouldn't have expected a cup of coffee out of her so I really admired the way they played it. They even published their names in the paper and the husband went around saying he was going to sue for getting the story wrong (obviously they never did and if you google her name the story still pops up).

So with all that being said, I'd learn nothing and tell everyone then look after them for life..... I reckon I would become awfully eccentric though

I would elongate my nipples miles into the sky like very long whips, locate a plane and then inscribe onto a window the amount I had just won by taking advantage of the temperature differential between my roasting hot nips and freezing altitude.

For starters.

Obviously there is a tax on giving money to siblings but rather than putting them down as an equal winner if you had four siblings could you put each of them down ar 5% and say that was their contribution to the"yearly" syndicate?

How about setting up a company, say a property management company (to manage say 5 rental properties), and making all your family executive directors. Then injecting loads of cash into the business, say 10m, and the company then buys all the stuff like cars/houses, and pays all/most bills, and for holidays etc for each of the directors..

Would that be a way of dodging some tax?

Family would get nothing, they're all either dead or financially comfortable.

Mr O'Bumble wouldn't even get told. Shure he'd just drink it if I gave him any.

I'm become self-employed in a very vague kind of way that no one really understood, but which required several overseas work trips each year, and which left me free to do some charity work while not travelling. And some lucky solicitor or accountant would be kept busy administering the anonymous donations I'd drip free to various charities over time.