Where to Send VAT Lottery Receipts in Malta: Addresses

There are two accepted addresses for VAT lottery receipts in Malta, and nothing else to remember:

• By hand: Fiscal Receipts Lottery, Qasam Industrijali, Marsa MRA007C
• By post: Fiscal Receipts Lottery, P.O. Box 288, Valletta

Both feed into the same monthly draw at the Public Lotto Department, and neither costs anything beyond a stamp. There is no online alternative: the fiscal receipts lottery still runs on paper receipts posted or dropped off in an envelope.

Below: how each address works, what to write on the receipts and the envelope, when the cut-off falls, and how to check whether your ID card number came out.

The two addresses at a glance

	Hand delivery	Post
Address	Fiscal Receipts Lottery, Qasam Industrijali, Marsa MRA007C	Fiscal Receipts Lottery, P.O. Box 288, Valletta
Best for	Last-minute entries, large batches of receipts	Anyone not near Marsa, visitors posting before they fly home
Cost	Free (your own transport)	Cost of a stamp
Timing risk	Low — you control the drop-off	Allow several working days for delivery
Proof of entry	None issued	None issued

Neither method gives you a receipt for your receipts. There is no acknowledgement, no reference number and no confirmation email. Once the envelope is in, the only way to find out whether you have won is to check the published list of winning ID card numbers after the draw.

Hand delivery: Qasam Industrijali, Marsa MRA007C

Qasam Industrijali means “industrial estate” in Maltese, so the address translates roughly as “Fiscal Receipts Lottery, Marsa Industrial Estate, MRA007C”. On a phone map or car satnav, the postcode MRA007C is the most reliable thing to type in; searching for “Fiscal Receipts Lottery” alone may not return a pin.

A few practical notes for the trip:

• The Marsa industrial estate sits just inland from the Grand Harbour, close to the arterial roads between the south of Malta and the harbour towns. It is warehouses and light industry rather than shops, so allow extra time to find the right block.
• Bring the receipts already prepared inside a sealed envelope marked for the lottery. Staff will not fill in your details for you.
• Office hours follow the public service pattern: mornings are safest, and summer hours are shorter than winter hours. If you are travelling from Gozo or arriving close to the deadline, confirm opening times with the Public Lotto Department beforehand.
• Parking in the estate is generally street-side. Buses serve Marsa well, but the estate involves a walk from the nearest stops.

Hand delivery is the safer option in one situation: when the deadline is a day or two away. Post can be slow, and an envelope that arrives after the cut-off is held over or discarded — it does not roll into the next draw automatically.

Posting your receipts: P.O. Box 288, Valletta

For most people, posting is the sensible choice. Write the address on the envelope exactly like this:

Fiscal Receipts Lottery
P.O. Box 288
Valletta
Malta

A few things worth knowing:

• A standard local stamp covers a normal envelope of receipts. For a thick bundle, weigh it at the counter rather than guessing.
• Add “Malta” on the last line if you are posting from abroad — for example, a visitor who forgot to hand the receipts in before flying home. Allow considerably more time for international post.
• Registered post is unnecessary. It costs more and gives you no priority in the draw.
• Do not fold receipts so tightly that the thermal print cracks along the crease. Fold once if you must, or use a larger envelope.

Because the address is a P.O. Box, delivery is to the box rather than to a street address — another reason to give the post a comfortable margin before the cut-off.

What to write on the receipts and the envelope

This is where most invalid entries come from. Each fiscal receipt must carry, on the back, three pieces of information:

1. Your full name
2. Your ID card number (or passport number, if you do not hold a Maltese ID card)
3. A contact telephone number

Write clearly in ink that will not smudge; on shiny thermal paper, a ballpoint pen usually works better than a marker. Every receipt in the envelope needs the details — writing them once on the top receipt is not enough, because receipts are separated when they go into the drum.

On the outside of the envelope, keep it simple:

• The address (Marsa or the P.O. Box, depending on how you are sending it)
• Optionally, “Fiscal Receipts Lottery” as the first line of the address, which is what identifies the envelope
• Your own name and address on the back, in case the envelope cannot be delivered

You do not need to list the receipts, total them up or include a covering letter, and there is no limit worth worrying about on how many you send — every eligible receipt is a separate chance.

One point that catches visitors out: all receipts are eligible regardless of the holder’s nationality. Tourists, students and workers on short contracts can all enter and all be paid if they win. What matters is the receipt and a valid identification number.

Deadlines: when your envelope has to be in

The draw is held monthly, usually around the 15th, at the Public Lotto Department, and covers fiscal receipts issued in the previous calendar month. Receipts dated in March go into the draw held in mid-April.

The cut-off for entries is typically noon, a few days before the draw date. In practice:

• Keep receipts in one place as the month goes along.
• In the first week of the following month, write your details on the back of each one.
• Post them by around the 8th–10th, or hand them in by the deadline if you are cutting it fine.

Because the exact cut-off shifts with weekends and public holidays, treat the first ten days of the month as your working window rather than relying on a fixed date.

What a winning receipt is actually worth

The prize formula is the receipt value multiplied by 100, with a minimum of €233 and a maximum of €11,647. A €4 coffee receipt still pays €233. A €120 supermarket shop pays €11,647, because anything from roughly €116.47 upwards hits the ceiling.

From our dataset of official results, covering 116 draws from November 2016 to August 2026:

• 3,116 winners in total, an average of 26.9 per draw
• 115 wins at the €11,647 cap — recent capped examples include receipts of €186.50 (July 2026), €175 and €136.70 (June 2026), €156.50 (May 2026) and €127.95 (April 2026)
• The largest receipt value ever drawn was €10,645 in December 2022 — still capped at €11,647, a useful reminder that a very large receipt is worth no more than a €120 one
• The most recent draw in the dataset, August 2026, produced 41 winners

Winners by year: 46 (2016, partial), 300 (2017), 283 (2018), 350 (2019), 286 (2020), 306 (2021), 309 (2022), 289 (2023), 331 (2024), 351 (2025) and 265 so far in 2026.

The takeaway from those capped examples: a handful of mid-sized receipts in the €120–€200 range are worth as much as one enormous one. You cannot usually arrange to split a big shop across separate receipts, but it does mean the everyday receipts most people throw away are worth keeping.

After you send: checking the results

Winners are published as a PDF listing winning ID card numbers, issued by the Ministry for Finance on its fiscal receipts lottery results page. The list is simply numbers, so you will not know which receipt won until you follow up.

On this site you can see the latest results as soon as they are published, browse all draws by month, and sign up for email notifications so you do not have to remember to check mid-month.

If your number appears, contact the Public Lotto Department. Keep some idea of what you posted — even a rough note of the month and the shops involved helps when you claim.

Common mistakes worth avoiding

• Sending receipts from the wrong month. Only the previous calendar month counts for each draw.
• Details on the front instead of the back. Write on the reverse, where there is clean space.
• Faded thermal receipts. Store them out of direct sunlight and away from car dashboards; an unreadable receipt cannot be verified.
• Missing the cut-off by posting on the 13th. Aim for the first ten days of the month.
• Assuming a big receipt beats several small ones. Above roughly €116.47, the prize is identical.

Whichever address you use — Marsa in person, or P.O. Box 288 in Valletta by post — the process is the same paper-and-envelope routine it has been since the lottery began, and it takes a few minutes a month.

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This site is independent and editorial. Official results and rules are published by the Ministry for Finance and the Public Lotto Department.