{"id":113552,"date":"2025-09-02T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113552\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:20:08","slug":"thomas-hubert-inheritance-tax-should-be-part-of-the-budget-debate-again-to-hike-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113552\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Hubert: Inheritance tax should be part of the budget debate again \u2013 to hike it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>As budget day approaches, the perennial debate around inheritance tax resurfaces, this time with the added twist of people without children now campaigning to end the difference of treatment they face in their ability to pass assets on to the next generation. This debate points to one logical conclusion: The tax on people inheriting wealth from their parents should increase. I have to declare two interests here. First, I don\u2019t have children (I have a niece, though). Second, I am the child of my parents, both thankfully alive. This places me in the balanced situation where I\u2019m likely to be\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a class=\"restricted-content__logo\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/wp-content\/themes\/currency-theme\/assets\/img\/Monogram-dark.svg\" alt=\"Logo\" width=\"290\" height=\"246\"\/><br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Avail of our LIMTED TIME special offer and access this piece \u2013 and everything else on The Currency \u2013 for one month for just \u20ac1.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"cta-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/pricing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Cancel at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide_mobile\">Are you already a member? .<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; As budget day approaches, the perennial debate around inheritance tax resurfaces, this time with the added&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,186,184,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-113552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}