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  They do in Germany. A host of a German internetshow won 64 thousand € and had to pay taxes on them.
  The law says, that because he had to do something for the money (answering questions) he has to pay taxes on it. 
  At least thats how i recall it.
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  that only applies to some countries... germany, australia, canada and others do not tax price money