{"id":573520,"date":"2026-03-30T05:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573520\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T05:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:15:08","slug":"treasurer-jim-chalmers-tells-google-to-deal-with-tax-office-on-ai-data-centre-as-labor-says-it-will-not-change-taxation-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573520\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasurer Jim Chalmers tells Google to deal with tax office on AI data centre as Labor says it will not change taxation laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google will need to run the gauntlet with the Australian Taxation Office to establish how tax rules apply to a potential $20 billion investment in a local artificial intelligence and data centre hub, after Treasurer Jim Chalmers played down the prospect of a change in the law to accommodate the technology giant.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Financial Review revealed last month that Google had told the federal government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/federal\/tax-worries-give-google-pause-on-20b-australia-data-centre-dream-20260312-p5o9r5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it was withholding a multibillion-dollar investment<\/a> because of the risk of exposing its broader operations to higher taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google will need to run the gauntlet with the Australian Taxation Office to establish how tax rules apply&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-573520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573520","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=573520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}