{"id":38971,"date":"2026-05-16T15:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=38971"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:37:21","slug":"30-death-tax-easter-egg-found-in-bad-faith-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/30-death-tax-easter-egg-found-in-bad-faith-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"30% death tax \u2018Easter Egg\u2019 found in bad faith Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe Albanese government has hidden a 30% death tax \u2018Easter egg\u2019 in their bad faith Budget and was hoping they could sneak their assault on family savings past Australians\u201d, said Shadow Treasurer, Tim Wilson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Wilson\u2019s comments follow reports in The Australian that found a 30% death tax hidden in the Budget papers targeted at popular family trusts. An \u2018Easter Egg\u2019 in popular culture is a secret that was deliberately hidden and requires effort to find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYoung Australians who invest in ETFs, crypto and shares have realised this Budget is targeted at kneecapping their savings, and applies a tax on invested first home deposits, and now their targeting any inheritance too\u201d, Mr Wilson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYesterday in Question Time the Prime Minister was explicitly asked about ruling out a death tax in the future, and he wouldn\u2019t. We now know he couldn\u2019t rule out a death tax tomorrow because he announced one on Tuesday buried in his Budget papers\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn red hot rage, Anthony Albanese openly lied 50 times over to the Australian people about not introducing new taxes on homes, rentals, investments and family savings and now he\u2019s been caught out trying to sneak through a death tax too\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis bad faith Budget is unravelling because Australian\u2019s have awoken that the Budget narrative of intergenerational fairness is code for kneecapping Australian families\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Albanese government has hidden a 30% death tax \u2018Easter egg\u2019 in their bad faith Budget and was hoping they could sneak their assault on family savings past Australians\u201d, said Shadow Treasurer, Tim Wilson. Mr Wilson\u2019s comments follow reports in The Australian that found a 30% death tax hidden in the Budget papers targeted at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/30-death-tax-easter-egg-found-in-bad-faith-budget\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;30% death tax \u2018Easter Egg\u2019 found in bad faith Budget&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38972,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38971\/revisions\/38972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}