{"id":574313,"date":"2026-03-30T14:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/574313\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:22:15","slug":"angus-taylor-rebukes-andrew-hastie-for-call-for-liberals-to-be-open-minded-on-tax-rises-and-property-concessions-liberal-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/574313\/","title":{"rendered":"Angus Taylor rebukes Andrew Hastie for call for Liberals to be \u2018open-minded\u2019 on tax rises and property concessions | Liberal party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angus Taylor has shut down Andrew Hastie\u2019s push<\/a> for the Liberals to be \u201copen-minded\u201d to increasing taxes on gas companies and winding back concessions for property investors, exposing a clash of philosophies between the opposition leader and his most likely future rival.<\/p>\n

The opposition leader also did not repeat Hastie\u2019s criticism of Donald Trump as he refused to say whether or not he endorsed the US and Israel\u2019s war with Iran.<\/p>\n

The shadow industry minister has been mounting the case for the Liberals to shed their conventional neo-Liberal economic mindset \u2013 including support for big businesses \u2013 to help win over disillusioned voters switching to One Nation.<\/p>\n

Echoing comments to Guardian Australia\u2019s Australian Politics podcast<\/a>, Hastie on Sunday confirmed he was open-minded about increasing taxes on gas exports and winding-back the capital gains tax discount and negative gearing concessions.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI just think we need to overhaul the whole system. We either fix the system, or it\u2019s torn down by people like Pauline Hanson,\u201d Hastie said in a interview with ABC\u2019s Insiders program, in which he also declared that \u201cno one\u2019s going to reward us for a final last stand for neo-Liberal politics\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Taylor dismissed the prospect of supporting the contentious tax changes, repeating his view that \u201cIf you whack a tax on something, you get less of it\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty straightforward for me. And I think that is a longstanding understanding of the economics profession in the Liberal party<\/a>. So if we want more of something, let\u2019s not tax it more,\u201d he told reporters in Canberra.<\/p>\n

The split on tax is emblematic of a deeper philosophical clash between Hastie and Taylor, which some colleagues believe will evolve into a broader conversation about who is best placed to lead the party, particularly against the rising threat of One Nation.<\/p>\n

Hastie wanted to challenge Sussan Ley earlier this year but was convinced to pull out for Taylor, who returned the former solider to the frontbench after the successful leadership spill.<\/p>\n

The two men are from the same right faction but have different worldviews: the Oxford-educated Taylor is considered a classic free-market Liberal while Hastie favours a more interventionist approach to \u201cre-industrialise\u201d Australia.<\/p>\n

The Albanese government is modelling a new windfall profits tax on gas companies and changes to the capital gains tax discount and negative gearing ahead of the May budget, meaning the opposition could be forced to agree a position within coming months.<\/p>\n

Guardian Australia has spoken with several Liberal MPs, who believe the Coalition must at least consider softening their hostility to new taxes.<\/p>\n

Anne Ruston, a Liberal frontbencher said \u201cwe should have everything on the table\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI support us having a conversation about anything that is going to improve the lot of Australians – that doesn\u2019t mean in this conflict, it means more generally,\u201d the shadow health minister told ABC\u2019s RN Breakfast.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t had an honest conversation in this country about issues around taxation for a very long time because the conversation always gets shut down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hastie has become increasingly strident in his criticism of Trump and the war in Iran, splitting from his colleagues who have offered full-throated support for the conflict.<\/p>\n

Taylor did not respond directly when asked on Monday if he supported Trump\u2019s war, instead emphasising the need to re-open the strait of Hormuz to ease the global fuel crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angus Taylor has shut down Andrew Hastie\u2019s push for the Liberals to be \u201copen-minded\u201d to increasing taxes on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-574313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574313","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=574313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}