Lotteries ask to raise the price of the Christmas ticket to 25 euros and increase the prizes
The lotteries demand that the State Lotteries and Betting Offices (SELAE) increase the commission they charge for the sales of the Christmas draw, which is set at 4%, compared to 6% for other draws, about 0.90 euros gross, which barely leaves them a profit margin. To do this, they propose raise the price of the tenth from 20 to 25 euros and, to compensate the consumer, also increase the amount of all prizesincluding stones. Currently, the first prize is worth 4 million euros for the series, which means 400,000 euros per tenth.
Lotteries assure that the cost of this measure would reach 52 million euros for Lotteries, whose profit is around 2.4 billion euros. The tenths of the Christmas draw They cost 20 euros from 2022. The association recalls that until 2011 the prizes were not taxed by the Treasury and that in the past, between the 70s and 1991, the tenth prize already rose from 1,000 to 3,000 pesetas, an increase that was proportionally much greater than the one they now propose.
For some time now, lotteries have also been demanding a price increase in the rest of the National Lottery tickets. In this way, the increases would go from 3 to 6 euros in the National Lottery ticket on Thursday; and from 6 to 10 euros for the tenth in the ordinary Saturday draw.
