{"id":679945,"date":"2026-05-19T03:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/679945\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T03:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:25:11","slug":"australian-news-and-politics-live-anthony-albanese-grilled-on-gst-cgt-and-budget-broken-promises-in-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/679945\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian news and politics live: Anthony Albanese grilled on GST, CGT and Budget broken promises in Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Angus Taylor said he spoke to \u201ca bunch\u201d of small business owners over the weekend who felt that they were \u201cunder assault\u201d from the Budget changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThe Labor Party clearly doesn\u2019t like small business, and they want small business to help to fund their rapid growth in spending,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Deputy Liberal leader Jane Hume says that small businesses were \u201cseeing their very structures under threat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cSo many small businesses are set up using a trust structure, a perfectly legitimate, perfectly legal structure to set up to protect assets and to assist small businesses,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWell, Jim Chalmers is accused of these people of avoiding their tax obligations. How dare he?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">There are more than 2.6 million small businesses in Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The latest tax office data, from 2023, shows that about 303,000 registered trusts are used by businesses, or 11 per cent of the number of small businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angus Taylor said he spoke to \u201ca bunch\u201d of small business owners over the weekend who felt that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,84],"class_list":["post-679945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679945","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=679945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}