Sasha Thurston

Hi, I'm Sasha Thurston and I own a very small business called Yoga Hub, a local yoga studio in Mount Hawthorne in Western Australia.

Look, my feeling on it was I can see where it's coming from.

My point of view is that I understand that we need to do something about generational inequity, particularly on housing.

And I think most Australians genuinely support those measures.

The thing that is confusing to me is that we've had this government speak a lot about

moving into a productivity phase.

And I feel as if they've sort of tacked on some tax measures that they want to sort of push through on the housing agenda that are pretty anti-small business.

Look, I am unclear.

I just really can't understand it.

I keep hearing that because my business is a very small business that it's not going to affect me but I will still fall under the changes to the family trust structure because I have a trust which I direct some of my income to it.

I'm the only person that I distribute to from my trust and

And I will now lose my tax-free threshold through the trust.

So it's going to affect me either way that I do it.

Well, with my own business, I had to tip all my own money in to start it.

And the first year that I ran it, I was working around 60 hours a week.

And that year I made $8,000.

And the second year I made a little bit more.

And then the third year I needed to terminate a partnership I was in.

And that year I lost $17,000.

So I worked for three