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  I don’t follow that show, but your statement is false if any Canadians won it. Americans have to pay income tax on it, Canadians can keep all of their winnings from game shows.
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  that only applies to some countries... germany, australia, canada and others do not tax price money >
  
  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. >
  
  It's not that simple. If your win depends on luck it's tax free in Germany. If you have to work for it (like being in Big Brother or DSDS), it's not. For WWM it's not that clear because you have a certain influence on the outcome, but so far no one of the winners had to pay taxes on their prize money. >
  
  And the UK, never taxed on anything considered winnings >
  
  Not even casinos and such? >
  
  Nope, any winnings are yours to keep >
  
  Nice, an actual non-greedy country for once >
  
  Well I’m sure the thinking is, they’ll get it back in taxes eventually anyway, and this way more money is in the economy, it’s smart really >
  
  Great reasoning and everybody wins >
  
  Until you realize there's a 17% VAT on pretty much everything. >
  
  It's better than our 23% VAT on pretty much everything >
  
  Well, I guess 17% or 23% VAT is still better than the 50% tax rate in the US. :thinking: >
  
  To be fair the show is called "Who wants to be a millionaire?" Not "We will make you a millionaire" >
  
  The answer to which is “everyone except billionaires” >
  
  Who Wants to be a Millionaire - Billionaire Edition would be worth a watch >
  
  First contestant: Elon Musk >
  
  2nd contestant: Jeff Bezos
  3rd: JK Rowling >
  
  These people could do so much better for the community >
  
  “Who wants to be a thousandaire” just doesn’t have the same ring to it >
  
  i mean, say $250-300k savings is not outlandish to have especially with the intelligence of some of the people on the show >
  
  Thats called a house. So if you won the show and owned a house your probably a millionaire. Its just owning a million in assets. >
  
  my eng teacher won 10k on a scratcher amd miss girl only got 6.9k >
  
  “6.9k”
  nice >
  
  Except for people who already had enough wealth to still be a millionaire after the taxes from the million dollar prize. So it’s not that unreasonable. >
  
  Just take monstrous losses on your over-valued properties. If you get caught, only your LLC gets in trouble. Free crime! >
  
  I can't tell if you're being serious but while you don't have civil liability criminal liability still applies, you can still get caught and lose a lot. >
  
  David Chang played Celebrity Who Wants to be a Millionaire and won the million dollar question, he was a millionaire before appearing, won, and was still a millionaire so there's at least one.
  Source >
  
  Plus all the people who won Who Wants to be a Millionaire in countries with sensible tax laws where they don't tax the winnings... >
  
  Being a millionaire is not what it once was, anyway.  These days it is more like upper-middle class. >
  
  i’ll still take it >
  
  Not even the upper in some parts of the country. Just regular middle class >
  
  sad.. but i’ll still take it >
  
  Incorrect! They had "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" in Canada where there are no taxes on game winnings, so you could become a millionaire in Canadian dollars!
  It actually turned out to be something like $USD740,000, which is actually something like $USD100,000 more than American contestants get after tax (all amounts are rough estimates, it was a long time ago and I don't remember exactly). >
  
  They also have Who Wants to be a Millionaire in the UK where the price always has been more than a million dollars (sometimes double due to exchange rates and no tax!) >
  
  Outside of America they are. Winnings aren’t earnings - unless you’re a professional gambler - who would they be taxed? >
  
  I feel like there was an OG millionaire special where the show paid taxes for the winners >
  
  In the UK you wouldn't pay tax on winnings, so £1m would be a genuinely £1m in your account >
  
  We can do that too! It’s a little trick I like to call “tax evasion”. >
  
  The title is technically correct. The show is called Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, not Who Will Actually Be a Millionaire. The winner continues to want to be a millionaire. >
  
  to be fair,  the show was called “Who WANTS to be a Millionaire?” not “Who WILL Be a Millionaire?” >
  
  No, they could have already been millionaires or they could have had $900,000 in their bank account. The correct way to phrase your point would be "no one on 'who wants to be a millionaire' actually won $1,000,000' unless they live in one of the 185 countries that won't tax your winnings" >
  
  IIRC they paid out enough to make you a millionaire after taxes >
  
  They did a couple specials where they made the winnings big enough to cover taxes and still leave you a millionaire. But outside those specials they certainly didn't.