{"id":608222,"date":"2026-04-15T10:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608222\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:08:14","slug":"gas-tax-in-budget-could-cut-investment-and-exploration-business-council-of-australia-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608222\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas tax in budget could cut investment and exploration, Business Council of Australia says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Albanese government is divided over whether to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/federal\/gas-tax-on-the-agenda-as-war-prompts-budget-rethink-20260320-p5qsa2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">levy an additional tax on gas<\/a>, as the Business Council of Australia and the gas giants argue it would damage future investment and weaken the nation\u2019s sovereign capability.<\/p>\n<p>Resources Minister Madeleine King all but confirmed on Wednesday that the government was considering imposing a new profit-based gas tax in the budget to be handed down on May 12.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Albanese government is divided over whether to levy an additional tax on gas, as the Business Council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-608222","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\/608222","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=608222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}