Taiwan's Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced Saturday the uniform-invoice prize winning numbers for September and October 2017 Taiwan's Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced Saturday the uniform-invoice prize winning numbers for September and October 2017 (Taiwan News photo)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - Taiwan's Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced Saturday the uniform-invoice prize winning numbers for September and October 2017, with the NT$10 million special prize winning number being 26638985. Are you a lucky winner?

Special Prize 26638985 NT$10 million for matching all the digits from the above special prize winning number. Grand Prize 37266877 NT$2 million for matching all the digits from the above grand prize winning number. First Prize 15720791、21230260、55899892 NT$200,000 for matching all the digits from any of the above first prize winning numbers. Second Prize NT$40,000 for matching the last seven digits from any of the first prize winning numbers. Third Prize NT$10,000 for matching the last six digits from any of the first prize winning numbers. Fourth Prize NT$4,000 for matching the last five digits from any of the first prize winning numbers. Fifth Prize NT$1,000 for matching the last four digits from any of the first prize winning numbers. Sixth Prize NT$200 for matching the last three digits from any of the first prize winning numbers. Additional

Sixth Prize 248、285、453 NT$200 for matching the last three digits of the Additional Sixth Prize winning number. Regulations for

Prize Money

Claims In order to receive the prize money, a winner must fill out the form on the back of the uniform invoice and present this with his or her ID card at any post office from 2017/12/06 to 2018/3/05. A winner need not collect the prize money in person. Such person as is entrusted by a winner to collect his or her prize money should present his or her own ID card along with the winning person's ID card and the winning uniform invoice at the post office in order to receive the prize money. If the uniform invoice receipt does not indicate the amount of the sale, the winner is not qualified to collect the prize money. If the buyer shown on the uniform invoice receipt is a government agency, state-run enterprise, public school, military unit or a business entity, t he winner is not qualified to collect the prize money. For winners of the fourth, third, second, first, grand or special prize, 20% withholding tax is levied on the prize. Each invoice may win only one prize. For more details, please check the Uniform Invoice Award Regulations. If a winner has any questions about claiming the prize money, please call the Service Line: (02)2396-1651.

According to the MOF, this issue has an estimated 14 Special Prize winners. The ministry reminds all the winners of this uniform invoice lottery to claim their prizes between December 6 this year and March 5, next year.

For winners of the special, grand, first, second, third and fourth prize, a 20 percent withholding tax is levied on the prize.

In order to receive the prize money of this issue, a winner must fill out the form on the back of the uniform invoice and present it with his or her ID card at any post office from December 6, 2017 to March 5, 2018, the MOF said. NT$200 winners can also present the winning invoices to any of convenient stores around Taiwan, where they can either add the value to their payment cards or purchase merchandise of the equivalent value, but the value must not be less than NT$200 as no change will be given back.

The uniform-invoice lottery, better known as the Taiwan receipt lottery, is a form of state lottery managed by the MOF. The lottery, designed to boost tax revenues, was introduced on Jan. 1, 1951. The lottery has successfully encouraged locals to obtain receipts for every purchase made with businesses with a certain amount of monthly turnover.