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Lesley - some of your ideas are ones that guarantee less income coming in to HMRC....We have appallingly high tax rates as it is let alone piling on more and losing even more tax revenue. Reducing civil servants is certainly one I agree with. Most of the rest cannot or will not work, but the most counter productive is what you say about tax.
If someone earns £100,000 in 2013/14 tax year they lose 38p for every £ of income up to £118,880, when it drops back to 42p rising to 47p at £150,000.
These penal tax rates are not raising extra money for HMRC, they are losing money. Yet you say raise them more!
If you earned £100,000 would you bother to work harder to earn more if you were only to benefit from 38p or less from every £ earned? Or would you bother to take the risk of investing in your business to increase your income or employ people if you are going to get penalised for it?
A lot of people make such judgments. Indeed many do so at the 40p threshold, including me, let alone the highest rates.
High tax rates do not mean more HMRC revenues. That is why Brown did not increase the 40p level during his 13 years as Chancellor and did so at the end as a political trap for the Conservatives to inherit.
Official HMRC figures shows such losses as does UK and overseas historical experience.
We need economic growth and higher tax revenues and not high tax rates.
If we want growth and more tax income then we need to reduce, not increase, taxes specially the high marginal rates.