Chapter 247 - 160 Security Work
The remaining scratch-off tickets totaled 5440 US dollars, and federal and personal income taxes still needed to be paid. California has a tax-exemption policy on lottery winnings, while other states might require an 8% or 12% state tax, but in California, you only need to pay federal tax and personal income tax.
Lottery amounts exceeding 600 US dollars, foreigners have to pay 30% federal tax, while locals only need to pay 25%.
If it were a normal redemption process, it would definitely be done by letting Americans like Jesse or Jennifer, who are old White Flag People, to go redeem and sign for it. However, a lottery ticket actually has a wide range of value and uses, there are people on the streets willing to buy these tickets at a higher price.
Allen Zhang simply drove Jesse to the Sunkist Bar, which was open for business today, already gathered plenty of booze-lovers; however, no strippers had been recruited yet, the steel pole was still unused.
Mary was serving drinks to customers, and a new white bartender was also recruited, surprising him, "Big boss, you’re inspecting again?"
Looking at the two distinctly different white beauties, one tall and one small. Mary was a bit skeptical, "Are these your friends?"
"Yes, this is Jennifer, this is Jesse. Just have the bartender make them any two drinks, I have some scratch-off lottery tickets here, take them and sell them to the customers in the bar, as long as they are willing to buy them at the same or a higher price, the transaction can proceed, I don’t care about the source of the money."
After all, it’s all for tax evasion, and the other party might be doing this to launder money.