ํ๋์ค ๋ณต๊ถ ๋ฐฑ๊ณผ์ฌ์ — ์ข ๋ฅ๋ถํฐ ์ธ๊ธ๊น์ง
ํ๋์ค์ ์ด๋ฉด์ ๋ ๊ถ๊ธํ๋ ๊ฒ ํ๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ก ๋ณต๊ถ์ด์์ด์. ์ข์ ๊ฟ์ ๊พผ ๋ ์ด๋ฉด ๊ดํ ํ ๋ฒ์ฉ ์ฌ์ ์ ์ด์ ์ ์ณ๋ณด๊ณค ํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ค ๋ฌธ๋ ๊ถ๊ธํด์ง ๊ฒ๋ค — ํ๋์ค์ ๋ณต๊ถ ์ข ๋ฅ๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง๋ ์๋์ง, ์ญ์ฌ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ช ํ ๋น์ฒจ ์ฌ๋ก๋ ๋ฌด์์ด ์๋์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ๋น์ฒจ๋๋ฉด ์ธ๊ธ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋๋์ง — ๋ฅผ ํ ๋ฒ ์ ๋๋ก ์ ๋ฆฌํด๋ดค์ต๋๋ค.
๐️ ํ๋์ค์ ๋ณต๊ถ ์ข ๋ฅ
ํ๋์ค ๋ณต๊ถ์ ๊ตญ์๊ธฐ์ FDJ(Franรงaise des Jeux)๊ฐ ๋ ์ ์ด์ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ข ๋ฅ๊ฐ ์๊ฐ๋ณด๋ค ๋ค์ํฉ๋๋ค.
Loto (๋ก๋)
ํ๋์ค์ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ ๋ณต๊ถ. ์ฃผ 3ํ ์ถ์ฒจํ๋ฉฐ, 49๊ฐ ์ซ์ ์ค 5๊ฐ์ 10๊ฐ ์ค ํ์ด๋ฒํธ 1๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ฆ ๋๋ค.
EuroMillions (์ ๋ก๋ฐ๋ฆฌ์ธ)
ํ๋์ค๋ฅผ ํฌํจํด ์ ๋ฝ 9๊ฐ๊ตญ์ด ํจ๊ป ์ด์ํ๋ ์ด๊ตญ๊ฐ์ ๋ณต๊ถ์ ๋๋ค. ์ญํ์ด ์ด์๋๋ฉด 1์ต์ ๋ก๋ฅผ ํ์ฉ ๋๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๋ ํฉ๋๋ค. ํ๋์ค์์๋ 'My Million'์ด๋ผ๋ ๋ณด๋์ค๊ฐ ๋ถ์ด, ๋งค ์ถ์ฒจ๋ง๋ค ํ๋์ค ์ฐธ๊ฐ์ ์ค ๋ฐฑ๋ง์ฅ์ 1๋ช ์ ๋ณ๋๋ก ๋ณด์ฅํฉ๋๋ค.
Keno (์ผ๋ ธ)
๋งค์ผ ์ถ์ฒจํ๋ ์ซ์ ๋งํ๊ธฐ ๊ฒ์์ผ๋ก, ๋งํ ์ซ์ ๊ฐ์์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ์๊ธ์ด ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง๋๋ค.
Illiko (์ผ๋ฆฌ์ฝ) — ์ฆ์ ์คํฌ๋์น
๋์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ธ์ด์ ๋ฐ๋ก ํ์ธํ๋ ์คํฌ๋์น ๋ณต๊ถ ์๋ฆฌ์ฆ์ ๋๋ค. Cash, Astro, Banco, Blackjack ๋ฑ ๋ค์ํ ํ ๋ง๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค.
Amigo, EuroDreams ๋ฑ
์ด ๋ฐ์๋ ์๋ฏธ๊ณ , ์ ๋ก๋๋ฆผ ๊ฐ์ ์ถ์ฒจ์ ๊ฒ์๋ค์ด ๋ด๋ฐฐ๊ฐ๊ฒ(ํ๋ฐ)๋ FDJ ์ฑ์ ํตํด ํ๋งค๋ฉ๋๋ค.
๐ ์ญ์ฌ์ ๋จ์ ํ๋์ค ๋ณต๊ถ ๋น์ฒจ ์ํผ์๋
์น๊ตฌ 5๋ช , ์ธ์ ์ฒซ ๋ณต๊ถ์ผ๋ก ํ๋์ค ์ญ๋ ์ต๊ณ ์ก์ ์ฐ๋ค
์ผ๋ํ๋์ค ์ง์ญ์ ์น๊ตฌ 5๋ช ์ด ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ํจ๊ป ๋ณต๊ถ์ ์ฌ๋ดค๋๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฒ ํ๋์ค ์ญ๋ ์ต๊ณ ์ก์ธ 2์ต 5์ฒ๋ง์ ๋ก ์ ๋ก๋ฐ๋ฆฌ์ธ ์ญํ ๋น์ฒจ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ด์ก์ต๋๋ค.
์ต๋ช ์ ๋น์ฒจ์ '๊ธฐ(Guy)', ๋น์ฒจ๊ธ์ผ๋ก ์ง๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์งํค๋ค
2020๋ 12์, ํ๋์ค ์ญ๋ 2์ ๊ท๋ชจ์ ๋น์ฒจ๊ธ์ ๋ฐ์ ํ ๋จ์ฑ์ ์ธ๋ก ์ '๊ธฐ'๋ผ๋ ๊ฐ๋ช ์ผ๋ก๋ง ์๋ ค์ก์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๋น์ฒจ๊ธ ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ์์ฐ·ํ๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํธ๋ฅผ ์ํ '์๋์ผ๋ง(Anyama)' ์ฌ๋จ ์ค๋ฆฝ์ ์ฌ์ฉํ์ต๋๋ค.
2024๋ , ํ๋์ค ๋ก๋ ์ญ๋ ์ต๊ณ ์ก 2,200๋ง์ ๋ก
2024๋ ํ ์ฐธ๊ฐ์๊ฐ ํ๋์ค ๋ก๋ ์ญ์ฌ์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฐ ๊ธ์ก์ธ 2,200๋ง์ ๋ก์ ๋น์ฒจ๋์ต๋๋ค.
๋น์ฒจ ๋ณต๊ถ์ ์ ์ ๋๋ฏธ ์์ ์จ๊ธด ์ฌํ์๋ค
ํ๋์ค ๋จ์๋ถ๋ฅผ ์ฌํํ๋ ๊ด๊ด๊ฐ ์ปคํ์ 2,600๋ง์ ๋ก์ง๋ฆฌ ๋น์ฒจ ๋ณต๊ถ์ ์์ด๋ฒ๋ฆด๊น ๋ด ์์์ ์ ์ ๋๋ฏธ ์์ ์จ๊ฒจ๋๋ค๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค.
๐ถ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ๋น์ฒจ๋๋ฉด ์ธ๊ธ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ ๊น
๊ฒฐ๋ก ๋ถํฐ ๋งํ๋ฉด, ํ๋์ค์์ FDJ ๋ณต๊ถ(๋ก๋·์ ๋ก๋ฐ๋ฆฌ์ธ·์คํฌ๋์น ํฌํจ) ๋น์ฒจ๊ธ ์์ฒด์๋ ์๋์ธ๊ฐ ๋ถ์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ์์ธ๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค.
- ๋น์ฒจ๊ธ์ ํฌ์ํ์ ๋ — ๋น์ฒจ๊ธ ์์ฒด๋ ๋น๊ณผ์ธ์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ ๋์ ํฌ์ํด์ ์๊ธด ์ด์·๋ฐฐ๋น·์๋์ฐจ์ต์๋ ๋จ์ผ์ ๋ฅ ์ธ(PFU, 30%)๊ฐ ๋ถ์ต๋๋ค
- ๋น์ฒจ๊ธ์ ๋๋ ์ค ๋ — ๊ฐ์กฑ์ด๋ ์ง์ธ์๊ฒ ๋น์ฒจ๊ธ ์ผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ์ค๋ค๋ฉด ์ฆ์ฌ์ธ ๋์์ด ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์๋ ์๊ฒ๋ 10๋ง์ ๋ก, ํ์ ์๋งค์๊ฒ๋ 80,724์ ๋ก๊น์ง๋ ๊ณต์ ๋๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์ด์ ๊ธ์ก์ ์ธ๊ธ์ด ๋ถ์ต๋๋ค
- ๋ถ๋์ฐ์ ์ด ๋ — ๋น์ฒจ๊ธ์ผ๋ก ๋ถ๋์ฐ์ ๊ตฌ์ ํ๋ฉด ์ดํ ์ฌ์ฐ์ธ๊ฐ ๋ถ๊ณผ๋๊ณ , ์์ฐ ๊ท๋ชจ๊ฐ ํฌ๋ฉด ๋ถ์ ์ธ ๋์์ด ๋ ์๋ ์์ต๋๋ค
๊ฑฐ์ฃผ์์ ๋น๊ฑฐ์ฃผ์, ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ตฌ๋ถํ ๊ณต์ ์๋ฃ๊น์ง๋ ํ์ธํ์ง ๋ชปํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ค์ ๋ก ๊ณ ์ก์ ๋น์ฒจ๋๋ค๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋์ ํ๋์ค ์ธ๋ฌด์ฌ๋ ๊ณต์ฆ์ธ๊ณผ ์๋ดํ์๊ธธ ๊ถํฉ๋๋ค.
The French Lottery Encyclopedia — Games, Tax Rules, and All
There's one thing that's always made me curious since living in France: the lottery. Whenever I had a good dream, I'd buy a ticket just to test my luck. That curiosity eventually turned into real questions — how many kinds of lottery are there in France, what are some famous winning stories, and how does taxation actually work if a foreigner wins? So I looked into it properly.
๐️ Types of French Lottery Games
France's lottery is run exclusively by the state-owned operator FDJ (Franรงaise des Jeux), and there are more varieties than you'd expect.
Loto
France's national lottery, drawn three times a week. Players pick 5 numbers out of 49, plus 1 lucky number out of 10.
EuroMillions
A transnational lottery run jointly by 9 European countries including France. Rollover jackpots can easily exceed €100 million. In France, a bonus called "My Million" guarantees one French participant becomes a millionaire at every single draw.
Keno
A daily number-matching game where the prize depends on how many of your chosen numbers come up.
Illiko — Instant Scratch Cards
A family of scratch-off tickets you scratch with a coin and check on the spot, with themes like Cash, Astro, Banco, and Blackjack.
Amigo, EuroDreams, and More
Other draw-based games like Amigo and EuroDreams round out the lineup, sold at tobacco shops ("tabac") or through the FDJ app.
๐ Famous Episodes from French Lottery History
5 Friends, First Ticket Ever, France's Biggest Win Ever
A group of five friends from the รle-de-France region bought a lottery ticket together for the very first time — and won France's largest-ever jackpot, a €250 million EuroMillions prize.
The Anonymous Winner "Guy" Used His Fortune to Protect the Earth
In December 2020, a man who won France's second-largest jackpot ever became known to the press only by the pseudonym "Guy." He used most of his winnings to establish the Anyama Foundation, dedicated to protecting nature and the environment.
2024: France's Biggest-Ever Loto Win, €22 Million
In 2024, one player won €22 million — the largest amount ever won in the French Loto's history.
Tourists Hid Their Winning Ticket Among the Dishes
A tourist couple traveling through southwest France, worried about losing their winning €26 million EuroMillions ticket, reportedly hid it in a stack of dishes at their accommodation.
๐ถ How Does Taxation Work If a Foreigner Wins?
The short answer: winnings from FDJ lottery games in France — Loto, EuroMillions, and scratch cards included — aren't subject to income tax. But there are a few exceptions worth knowing.
- If you invest the winnings — the prize itself is tax-free, but any interest, dividends, or capital gains earned by investing that money are subject to France's flat tax (PFU, 30%)
- If you give some of it away — sharing part of your winnings with family or friends triggers gift tax. Children can receive up to €100,000 and siblings up to €80,724 tax-free, with anything above that taxed
- If you buy real estate — purchasing property with the winnings brings ongoing property tax, and a large enough estate could trigger wealth tax
We couldn't find official guidance specifically distinguishing residents, non-residents, and foreigners. If you actually win a large prize, it's best to consult a French tax advisor or notary directly.
์ ๊ฐ ์๊ธฐ๋ก๋ ํ๋์ค๋ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ํ์ด์ผ๋ก ๋น์ฒจ๋ ๋ณต๊ถ ๋น์ฒจ๊ธ์ ์ธ๊ธ์ ๋งค๊ธฐ์ง ์๋ ๊ฑธ๋ก ์๊ณ ์์ด์. ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ ์ค์ ๋ก ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ์์ ๋น๊ฑฐ์ฃผ์, ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ์ ํํ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฅธ์ง๊น์ง๋ ์ ๋ ํ์คํ ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ๋ชป ์ฐพ์์ต๋๋ค. ํน์ ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ ์ ํํ ์์๋ ๋ถ ๊ณ์๋ฉด ๋๊ธ๋ก ์๋ ค์ฃผ์ธ์ — ์ค์ ๋ก ๊ฒช์ด๋ณด์ จ๊ฑฐ๋, ๊ด๋ จ ์ธ๋ฌด ์ง์์ด ์์ผ์ ๋ถ๋ค์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ ํฌ์๊ฒ๋, ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ ์๋ถ๋ค๊ป๋ ํฐ ๋์์ด ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค.
From what I understand, France doesn't tax lottery winnings even for foreigners, since it's treated as personal luck rather than income. But I honestly couldn't find solid sources on exactly how this plays out for residents versus non-residents versus foreigners specifically. If anyone here actually knows this for certain — whether from experience or from tax expertise — please leave a comment. It'd help us and other readers a lot.