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Flat White

Tax and cut: a very modern oxymoron

14 May 2018

1:01 PM

14 May 2018

1:01 PM

For a week now our newspapers have been ablaze with news stories and poll analysis celebrating the government’s announcement of tax cuts. Unfortunately, the joining of the words tax and cut has become a modern oxymoron, a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

A tax cut used to mean the amount of tax paid would be less than was paid in previous years.

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