{"id":590149,"date":"2026-04-07T00:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590149\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:14:10","slug":"are-young-australians-paying-too-much-income-tax-in-an-intergenerational-rip-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590149\/","title":{"rendered":"Are young Australians paying too much income tax in an intergenerational rip-off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 7, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Oughton, 69, can\u2019t understand why people aged in their 20s and 30s are not noisily protesting with placards to demand a better tax deal for working-age people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know why young people aren\u2019t marching in the streets,\u201d says Oughton, a retired bank economist. \u201cRich people like me who stopped working at 53 and have been wandering the world travelling and volunteering, their tax rates in retirement are effectively zero.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 7, 2026 \u2013 5.00am Jeff Oughton, 69, can\u2019t understand why people aged in their 20s and 30s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-590149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590149","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=590149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}