Taiwan adds more NT$500 prizes to its cloud invoice lottery
Taiwan is raising the odds of winning its receipt lottery, good news for anyone who uses digital receipts.
- The Finance Ministry is adding 500,000 more NT$500 prizes per draw, bringing the total to 4.35 million.
- The change starts with the July-August draw on Sept. 25 and runs through the end of the year.
- Only cloud (digital) invoice users can win these prizes, so the perk pushes people away from paper receipts.
- The ministry's redemption app was updated with a bilingual interface and automatic bank transfers for winnings.
- Officials also warned about scammers posing as the ministry by email or text — the real platform never asks for credit card details.
Outlook: Expect more people to switch to digital receipts ahead of the September draw, with the higher prize count in place through December.