$1 billion+ (915 million euros)--What would be the first thing you'd do if you won?

quarefarmers · 10-01-2016 10:11pm

Give it to my friend in the know,hopefully he'd turn it into 3 billion

NomadicGray · 10-01-2016 11:30pm

deepesthole wrote: »

Not to advocate one over the other, I went for thelotter.com. Couldn't pay by Paypal though.
The company holds the ticket so can claim the prize, but they have a contract with you to transfer the money. I've no idea how legally binding that is!

Dont you have to prove you were in the country when you bought the ticket. How do online companies get around that?

ygolometsipe · 10-01-2016 11:47pm

This prize is too big now, they should give the first 1000 winners
a million.

halkar · 10-01-2016 11:52pm

Probably get heart attack first

jester77 · 10-01-2016 11:57pm

This guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvE84AGMWpE

deepesthole · 11-01-2016 12:15am

NomadicGray wrote: »

Dont you have to prove you were in the country when you bought the ticket. How do online companies get around that?

From what the site said, they "hold" the ticket. So they collect the win and then hand it over.
It's the handing over half a billion dollars I'm most skeptical about, but I'm sure they'd be sued to hell and back if they didn't.

Sleepy · 11-01-2016 1:51pm

How does the taxation work if you buy the ticket on-line?

Would you pay the income tax in Ireland or would you have to elect a state in the US to hand the tax to?

mad muffin · 11-01-2016 1:58pm

I have a ticket in it. I'll let you know when I win.

King George VI · 11-01-2016 2:25pm

Wham bars, I'd buy hundreds and thousands of boxes of wham bars.

FatherTed · 13-01-2016 9:41pm

Up to 1.5 billion now:
http://www.powerball.com/

Drawing is tonight.

smash · 13-01-2016 9:51pm

I heard there's a video going around of some cctv footage from a restaurant where the staff thought they'd won. There's 42 of them jumping up and down until they realise they're looking at a ticket from a different draw.

FatherTed · 13-01-2016 10:05pm

smash wrote: »

I heard there's a video going around of some cctv footage from a restaurant where the staff thought they'd won. There's 42 of them jumping up and down until they realise they're looking at a ticket from a different draw.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemcneal/so-close-yet-so-far#.pvv8OnbrA

Mantis1234 · 13-01-2016 10:17pm

I'd buy a small Island and set up my own little Private Military Company. I'd do the dirty work for people that need dirty work done, slowly bringing in money and expanding the company. Eventually it would grow massive and I would form my own country. I would use advanced medical technology to stay alive for as long as possible. When I die I would pass my legacy onto my son who would continue my long term goal of taking over the world.

Gandhi · 13-01-2016 10:27pm

Sleepy wrote: »

How does the taxation work if you buy the ticket on-line?

Would you pay the income tax in Ireland or would you have to elect a state in the US to hand the tax to?

According to the guide for Canadians buying tickets, Uncle Sam takes at least 30% as you are a non-resident alien. The Canadian government then takes nothing, which is nice. Not sure our lads would be so generous.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/powerball-canada-5-things-1.3401641

P1nkSheep · 13-01-2016 11:41pm

Id buy a house in Sandbanks

Sh1tbag OToole · 13-01-2016 11:55pm

Buy a load of land in Dublin off NAMA that is intended for shopping centres and office buildings or 'units' but instead just build 1 little thatched cottage in the middle of each site, put a few trees around it and a nice shed and a swing. Let them out for free to people down on their luck. Maybe do the same with some existing Celtic Tiger buildings, knock them and put a small cottage on the site. Or buy a load of Spar shops and make them exactly like they would have looked in 1950 complete with grumpy proprietor