{"id":695691,"date":"2026-05-26T12:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/695691\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:57:10","slug":"federal-budget-2026-tax-changes-struggle-for-voter-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/695691\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal budget 2026 tax changes struggle for voter support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to negative gearing, capital gains tax and the taxation of trusts were the least popular measures in the federal budget, according to new research that finds a majority of voters believe the government should try to cut spending instead.<\/p>\n<p>The release of the post-budget analysis, conducted by JWS Research, came as the opposition hardened its threat to delay the passage of legislation<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/federal\/ndis-overhaul-to-save-15b-a-year-by-end-of-decade-20260422-p5zpy6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> to cut $37.8 billion from the NDIS,<\/a> unless the government agreed to a rigorous Senate inquiry into the budget tax changes.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Changes to negative gearing, capital gains tax and the taxation of trusts were the least popular measures in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-695691","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\/695691","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=695691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}