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Capital gains tax, negative gearing and trusts to form budget tax trio
Changes to negative gearing, the capital gains tax and trusts are set to feature in next week's budget. (ABC News: Matt Roberts)
Next week's budget will feature changes to the capital gains tax, negative gearing and the taxation of trust funds.
Some of the details have been left undecided until the last minute.
All three featured in Labor's 2019 election platform, but the policy design will differ.
Negative gearing will be curbed, the capital gains tax (CGT) discount overhauled, and new tax rules imposed on trusts in next week's federal budget as the Albanese government braces for a fierce debate about housing, wealth and intergenerational fairness.
View from The Hill: the art of political spin – defending a broken promise as ‘building trust’
In his first term, Anthony Albanese was highly reluctant to break promises. He resisted for a long time recalibrating the Coalition’s tax cuts, because he had undertaken to deliver them intact.
This term, it seems to be a different story. In last year’s election campaign, Albanese promised there would be no change to negative gearing. Asked in one of the debates to confirm that “negative gearing is off the table”, the prime minister was unequivocal, “Yeah, it’s off the table […] the key is supply, and that measure will not boost supply”.
Nor did Albanese indicate he would reform the capital gains tax.
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CGT change to tax existing investments based on length of ownership
The Albanese government plans to transition existing investors to a new capital gains tax regime through a hybrid grandfathering system based on how long an asset is owned.
Existing investors in property, shares and other assets will not be fully exempt from the CGT changes, with their future gains after the May 12 budget subject to the planned inflation indexation model, under a proposal Treasury has prepared for Treasurer Jim Chalmers.
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