California — maligned as tax-happy — is one of nine states, including Texas and Florida, that levy no state tax on lottery winnings.
All week long, the good residents of Altadena, California, have been eyeing neighbors, counting co-workers who call in sick, and ringing up ex-spouses to size up who may have the single winningEverybody is waiting for the country’s newest billionaire to come forward. Cousins of cousins will suddenly turn up at their doorstep. So will the IRS.
California’s lottery system, including the state tax exemption, was first implemented after voters approved Proposition 37 in 1986. The language exempting state taxes, which was included in the ballot measure, appears to have been a calculated addition by supporters of the measure who were being pilloried for adding a “new and expensive tax” on Californians.
Nowadays, luck helps determine which communities and businesses profit from the sudden influx of lottery winners. In Altadena, Joe Chahayed reaped a reward of $1 million since his Joe’s Mobil gas station is where the winning Powerball ticket was sold. He“This is a very poor neighborhood,” Chahayed told the Orange County Register. “The poor people deserve it.”
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