{"id":676805,"date":"2026-05-17T13:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/676805\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:54:23","slug":"labors-decision-to-impose-a-corporate-style-tax-on-trusts-has-drawn-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/676805\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor\u2019s decision to impose a corporate-style tax on trusts has drawn criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government\u2019s proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5zwp7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">30 per cent minimum tax on discretionary trusts<\/a> is being sold as a fairness measure. In reality, what has been proposed appears to rest on a deeply flawed assumption: that affected taxpayers can simply restructure out of trusts if they do not like the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>For many legitimate Australian businesses, that is fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government\u2019s proposed 30 per cent minimum tax on discretionary trusts is being sold as a fairness measure.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,186,184,185],"class_list":["post-676805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676805","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=676805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}