Anthony Bertucci was a Florida Lotto winner about 10 years ago. Today, he is selling his home and moving out of state to pay the Internal Revenue Service after a federal appellate court decision last month that will cost 63 lottery winners nationwide millions in taxes.

“I got to start over again. It just doesn’t seem fair,” said Bertucci, of Boca Raton, as his 1-year-old child cooed in the background.

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