{"id":654369,"date":"2026-05-07T00:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654369\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T00:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:09:09","slug":"how-the-budget-2026-could-affect-your-money-capital-gains-tax-negative-gearing-trust-tax-distribution-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654369\/","title":{"rendered":"How the budget 2026 could affect your money; capital gains tax, negative gearing, trust tax distribution changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 7, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>The federal budget won\u2019t be handed down until May 12, but it\u2019s already shaping up to be the biggest \u2013 outside a crisis \u2013 in decades. Significant tax changes are coming for property and share investors, electric car drivers and the beneficiaries of more than 818,000 discretionary trusts.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the changes are needed to make Australia fairer. \u201cFor many young people, they feel like they haven\u2019t got a fair crack compared with my generation and the generations beforehand,\u201d he says. Here is a rundown of what we know so far.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 7, 2026 \u2013 5.00am The federal budget won\u2019t be handed down until May 12, but it\u2019s already&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-654369","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\/654369","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=654369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}