I think the Duck has a very good point what we need to do is lower the government spending rather than put up taxes. While it seems obscene that these big multi nationals pay none or very little tax I can sort of see the argument about them employing lots of british workers who pay tax on their earnings and the small firms that supply the big ones also employ people, where the problem is those that earn money here but dont employ here,IE internet companies. Also the salaries of the top earners are way too high so I can see that for those over say £1000,000 the tax rate should be much higher, dont hold with the argument about you need to pay these multi million salaries to attract top people,what will they do if you dont? The gap between those who earn £100,000 plus and the normal Brit is getting too large, it is all very well saying you need to encourage the best but we also need to show the kids today that they can earn a living wage or they will just say bugger that I will live off the state