UKIP would make working people better off through a "low-tax revolution", Nigel Farage has said as he launched his party's election manifesto.
It would keep workers on the minimum wage out of tax, raise the 40p tax rate threshold to £55,000, introduce a new 30p tax band and scrap inheritance tax.
He said UKIP was the only party with a "credible plan" for immigration and a positive vision for the country.
The Conservatives have said there is a "£37bn black hole" in UKIP's proposals.
But Mr Farage said his was the only party with fully costed plans, which have been verified by independent economic think tank, The Centre for Economic and Business Research.
Key priorities
UKIP
Main pledges
- Rapid referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union
- Control immigration with points system, limit of 50,000 skilled workers a year and a five-year ban on unskilled immigration
- Extra £3bn a year for the NHS in England
- No tax on the minimum wage
- Meet Nato target of spending 2% of GDP on defence, and look to increase it "substantially"
The party's proposals also include an increase of up to £3bn extra a year in NHS funding, a commitment to spend 2% of GDP on defence and a five-year ban on unskilled immigration.
UKIP, which wants to quit the EU, has said it will hold an in/out referendum "as soon as possible" in the next Parliament.
Mr Farage said his was the only party which had the "self confidence and belief in the nation" that the UK should govern itself, make its own laws and negotiate its own international trade deals.
'Big tax giveaway'
Setting out the party's election offerings at a hotel in Thurrock, Essex, the UKIP leader said politics had become dominated by giant corporate business interests while ordinary people had been "left behind" with "nobody to speak for them".
But he added: "UKIP has a plan, we genuinely want to make working people better off. And we will do that by leading the charge and making the argument for a low tax revolution.
"We genuinely want to make work pay and for people to have incentives to do better. And we believe that will unleash a kind of economic dynamism that has not been seen in this country in a long time."
Mr Farage said he was proposing an £18bn "big tax giveaway", paid for by cutting £32bn a year from government spending.
This would including cutting foreign aid spending, leaving the EU, scrapping the HS2 rail link and changing the Barnett funding formula for the nations.
UKIP's policies also include:
- Introducing a points-based immigration system
- Funding 6,000 new jobs for armed forces veterans, in the police, the prison service and at the UK border
- Cutting foreign aid by £9bn
- Scrapping hospital parking charges
- A new 30p tax band for those earning between £45,000 and £55,000 a year
- Removing stamp duty on the first £250,000 for new homes built on brownfield sites
- A cut in business rates for small businesses
On immigration, Mr Farage said the only way for the UK to control its borders was by leaving the European Union.
Dismissing the Conservatives' approach for a renegotiation of Britain's terms of membership of the 28-member bloc, Mr Farage said there was "no third way".
"We want our country back, and then and only then can we actually control our borders," he told the gathered media and party supporters.
The party is proposing an Australian-style points-based immigration system, which the party leader said would be ethical, fair and in the interests of the UK.
Foreign criminals would not be allowed into the country and all migrants would need to have insurance to access the health system, Mr Farage said.
Migrants would not be allowed to claim benefits in the UK unless they had paid into the system for five years and obeyed the law, under UKIP's plans.
The resulting "big reduction in numbers" coming to the UK would relieve pressure on schools, hospitals and houses, said Mr Farage.
'Independently verified'
BBC UKIP campaign correspondent Alex Forsyth said the launch showed the party was trying to broaden its appeal and convince voters of its credibility, while maintaining its focus on the EU and immigration.
A Conservative spokesman said UKIP's numbers did not "add up", adding: "We all know that Nigel Farage doesn't have a credible plan for Britain - he just makes it up as he goes along."
Earlier, UKIP's campaign chief Suzanne Evans told BBC Radio 4's Today programme all of the figures had been independently verified by economic think tank, The Centre for Economic and Business Research.
The manifesto launch came as one of the party's senior figures, immigration and economic spokesman Steven Woolfe, admitted to disagreements Ms Evans over the party's immigration policies.
Mr Woolfe confirmed to BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast reports in the Telegraph he said Ms Evans "didn't seem to understand" the policies were true, but that he had made the comments "weeks ago" and he was now "absolutely onboard" with his colleague.
Despite a slight dip in some recent polls, UKIP has been polling ahead of the Liberal Democrats and is hoping to add to the two MPs it gained in by-elections following defections from the Conservatives.
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