A total of 18 invoice receipts were issued with the serial number 13965913 that won the NT $10 million (US$304,615) special prize in Taiwan’s November-December uniform invoice lottery, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Wednesday, adding another 15 receipts with the serial number 29892710 won the lottery’s NT$2 million grand prize.
Six of the NT$10 million special prize winners were for purchases of less than NT$100, including a Hi-Life customer who bought a drink in Taoyuan for just NT$35 and a customer who spent NT$45 for plastic bags at a life store in Taoyuan.
Among the 18 special prize winners, the biggest spender was a customer who spent NT$16,120 for religious items.
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Among the 15 winners for the NT$2 million grand prize, one spent NT$45 on a drink at FamilyMart in New Taipei’s Zhonghe District, while the biggest spender was for NT$500 of CPC gasoline.
The MOF released the winning invoice lottery numbers for the November-December period on Jan. 25. In addition to the two most coveted prizes, the three numbers for the NT$200,000 first prize are 26649927, 59565539 and 11460822, the MOF said.
The prizes can be claimed from Feb. 6 to May 5.
Meanwhile, the MOF has also drawn prizes exclusively for cloud-based invoices.
A total of 114 receipts and cloud-based receipts have been drawn as winners of the special, grand, and first prizes, as well as cloud-based NT$1 million prizes, according to the MOF.
Under the rules of Taiwan’s receipt lottery, holders of receipts whose serial numbers match the last seven digits of any of the first-prize numbers win NT$40,000, while those with invoices whose serial numbers match the last six digits win NT$10,000.
Other prizes are NT$4,000 for receipts with the last five digits of any first-prize number, NT$1,000 for receipts with the last four digits, and NT$200 for invoices with the last three digits.
To collect a prize, Taiwanese citizens must present their National Identification Card and a winning receipt. Non-citizens are also eligible to win the cash prizes as long as they can present their passport, Alien Resident Certificate or Entry & Exit Permit issued by the National Immigration Agency, according to the ministry.
Prizes up to NT$1,000 can be claimed at convenience stores such as 7-Eleven, FamilyMart, OK Mart, Hi-Life, PX Mart and Simple Mart.
Prizes up to NT$40,000 can be collected from credit cooperatives across Taiwan, and First Commercial Bank, Chang Hwa Bank, and the Agricultural Bank of Taiwan, according to the ministry.
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