{"id":677937,"date":"2026-05-18T04:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677937\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T04:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:36:08","slug":"cgt-discount-changes-could-hurt-young-australians-who-own-etfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677937\/","title":{"rendered":"CGT discount changes could hurt young Australians who own ETFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young Australians investing in exchange-traded funds will be negatively affected by the federal government\u2019s extension of capital gains tax changes to shares, say critics, even though over-65s are the industry\u2019s fastest-growing group of retail clients.<\/p>\n<p>CGT changes flagged in last week\u2019s federal budget will replace the 50 per cent discount on capital gains with an inflation-indexation model and impose a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/policy\/tax-and-super\/budget-2026-capital-gains-changes-explained-20260507-p5zuuc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">minimum tax rate of 30 per cent<\/a> for shares and property.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young Australians investing in exchange-traded funds will be negatively affected by the federal government\u2019s extension of capital gains&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-677937","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\/677937","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=677937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}