💥 “OH MY… DID SHE REALLY JUST SAY THAT?!” — Tense Today Show moment as host Sarah Abo fires a SH0CK five-word question at Albo over key election promises, leaving the room frozen and ‘someone’ visibly breaking a sweat… 😲

Today Show host Sarah Abo has questioned whether Anthony Albanese can be trusted after his Federal Budget broke a series of key election promises.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced on Tuesday that negative gearing will be wound back to only include new builds, breaking Labor’s repeated election promise to avoid changes to tax settings that allow landlords to reduce their tax bills.

Abo asked the Prime Minister why he hadn’t taken the changes to an election.

‘Why have you chosen to lie to Australians instead of letting them vote on it?’ she asked, before asking whether his government planned to introduce a death tax.

A death tax is applied to the total value of a deceased person’s estate, which includes property, money and inheritance, before it’s passed on to heirs.

Albanese said he would not introduce the tax. But Abo continued, asking: ‘But things change, don’t they, as you and the Treasurer have repeatedly said.’

‘No. These are the positions that we’re put in, Sarah,’ the prime minister replied.

Abo hit back: ‘But you’ve also said that things change, so how can we believe you?’

Today Show host Sarah Abo (pictured) questioned whether Australians can believe Anthony Albanese when he says he won’t introduce a death tax after the Federal Budget shock

Albanese insisted the Labor government would not introduce a death tax

‘We have put forward these changes. We’re being upfront about that,’ Albanese said.

Negative gearing allows owners of investment properties to claim back their costs such as interest on loans, maintenance and rates.

Under Labor’s changes, only those with existing negatively geared properties or who build new homes on vacant land will be entitled to claim their expenses.

When asked by Sky News on Wednesday if he had negatively geared any of his properties, Albanese said: ‘Oh, look, I have in the past, absolutely.’

‘But all my things are declared in the normal way. I’m subject to all of that, but in a transparent way, like everyone else.’

Albanese did not clarify whether his current investment property was negatively geared, but he did recently declare rental income.

The prime minister currently owns a $4.3million clifftop home in Copacabana, on the NSW Central Coast, and a property in Marrickville, in Sydney’s inner-west.

He recently sold an apartment in Canberra and a home in Dulwich Hill in Sydney.

Albanese currently owns a $4.3million clifftop home (above) in Copacabana

At least 15 cabinet ministers own investment properties and 10 have declared rental income, meaning they will remain eligible for negative gearing.

Albanese was asked whether it was fair that those parliamentarians would continue to receive the concession while future property investors were locked out.

‘They operate in exactly the same way. In what way is there a differentiation?’ he said.

Shadow treasurer Tim Wilson lashed out at the major tax changes, after Labor promised not to change CGT and negative gearing at last year’s federal election.

‘The Treasurer has been caught out, basically lying to the Australian community with the Prime Minister,’ Wilson told Sky News.

‘Australians are angry, and more importantly, there’s been a clear record of broken trust and it’s not even going to deliver the claimed benefits that they say.’