UUP man hits out at lottery's 'unfair tax'

The British National Lottery is a bad tax which hits lower income families, an Assembly member insisted today.

UUP man hits out at lottery's 'unfair tax'

The British National Lottery is a bad tax which hits lower income families, an Assembly member insisted today.

Just days after Belfast woman Iris Jeffrey scooped the UK’s highest ever lottery win – £20m (€29.9m) – Ulster Unionist MLA Esmond Birnie said the draw was a sly form of taxation.

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