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Playing the receipt lottery
If you examine the receipts (or so called uniform-invoices) given when you purchased stuff from shops in Taiwan, you will find that each has an unique 8-digit number at its top. This is a lottery number where the winning numbers are published on the 25th of every odd month of the year. The lottery is a gimmick used by the government so that businesses in Taiwan have to report actual revenues to the tax office. (Receipts are proof of revenues and the lottery motivates the consumers to ask for them :P) Foreigners can claim the prizes too. ;)
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