Hitting Lottery for $40Million..What Happens?

[Jimster]

That is a shockingly high tax rate you guys have there.... I'd move to the Cayman Islands, buy a house in Mission Bay (Auckland, New Zealand) and a Jaguar XJR for that house, an Apartment on the Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia) and a Ferrari F355 Spider for that house and an Apartment in Genoa for when I'm in Europe. Then modestly invest in about 6-7 nice cars for my pernament residence.....

After that the rest goes into investment.....

[96TSi]

id buy a shitty 2 bedroom loft and live like a slob. hire a maid to clean up after me, then put 3/4 of it away for my kids and then his kids and so on. the other 1/4 of the money would probably goto a pure gold toilett so i would have a real throne to take a dump in

[zebrathree]

T-80, here I come!



I would also buy an island and create my own state.

[Oz]

Assuming $US14 million = approx. 22 million AUD,

Invest 15 million in a diversified portfolio including property and shares on a number of different stock markets.

The other 7 million I would spend on a huge house (think 8 double bedrooms, 5 storeys) that I would live in with whoever the hell out of my friends wanted to live there.

I would buy out my company, leave the structure in place and give everyone a $10k p/a pay rise.

Buy a BMW M3 and deck it out to the hilt.

The rest I would simply spend on a more extravagent version of my current lifestyle.

[Ssom]

Well, if I won it in NZ, I don't see why the government take any more than 40% of it, so that leaves about US$25 million, which is about NZ$33 million.

With that I'd pay off all my Uni education, I'd build a massive "Party mansion" in the most exclusive part of Wellington (wherever that may be...)- in which I'd put up about 6 or 7 friends, then buy an CL65 AMG Benz, Lamborghini Murcielago, BMW E46 M3, HSV GTS 300, Lancia Delta Integrale, Fraser Clubman, Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato and Honda Integra DC2 Type R and build the Honda Civic show-go car I've always wanted to do, following that give some to my folks and then chuck it into investments in some well run companies (I would want a 25-40% return on my investment) and the property market.

[zebrathree]

Got room for my T80 in there?

In NZ, the government can't lay it's filthy sticky fingers on your hard won dosh because they're winnings and not earnings. They can, however, pick up the 40% or whatever it is on the interest earned as that counts as earnings.

Oh yeah, I'd make the Wellington Vice HQ. Searchlights, a bunker, room for all the Vice mobiles, strip club, complementry bar, and a kennel out the back for Blindside so Vice can stand on the balcony with their champers and laugh laugh LAUGH.

Cheers! *chink*

[blindside.AMG]

Originally Posted by zebrathree

Oh yeah, I'd make the Wellington Vice HQ. Searchlights, a bunker, room for all the Vice mobiles, strip club, complementry bar, and a kennel out the back for Blindside so Vice can stand on the balcony with their champers and laugh laugh LAUGH.

Cheers! *chink*

Your obsession with me has to stop, Reese. I told you a thousand times, I'm not gay. There are plenty more of guys in LA you can date, a lot of them gay too. But not me, sorry.

[zebrathree]

If I were after you I would obviously have exceedingly bad taste.

As I do not have eceedingly bad taste, I fear you are only flattering yourself.

[twospirits]

Hmmm 14 Million in one lump sum. Woohoo.

Okay lets see...
1 Million to buy the land and build a house big enough for my family & cars,
500,000 to divide up between all my friends that believed in me in the past and helped me in getting through life.
500,000 to my nieces/nephew for schooling,
200,000 for vehicles for everyone in my family (thats a lot of Hyundais) (ummm maybe not, they can't drive)
Probably a bmw convertible for cruising,
create my own Hyundai pickup at one of those California shops,
Buy a boat
Go on a cross country trip,
Go on a around the world trip,
Invest about 10 million in stocks and bonds
Give to charity

Can't think of anything else. Oh yeah, give all the mods the proposed raise that Igor promised last year.

TS out (playing lottery tickets)

[Ssom]

Originally Posted by zebrathree

Got room for my T80 in there?

In NZ, the government can't lay it's filthy sticky fingers on your hard won dosh because they're winnings and not earnings. They can, however, pick up the 40% or whatever it is on the interest earned as that counts as earnings.

Oh yeah, I'd make the Wellington Vice HQ. Searchlights, a bunker, room for all the Vice mobiles, strip club, complementry bar, and a kennel out the back for Blindside so Vice can stand on the balcony with their champers and laugh laugh LAUGH.

Cheers! *chink*

You bet your ass it would...... I reckon with some of my money I'd also assemble a team of 11 top thieves so I can rob a Casino in Vegas.....