Eight out of 10 members of the public think MPs should pay back excessive claims, 55% think they should step down from their posts and 56% think they should be fired, according to a report by expense management companies GlobalExpense and WebExpenses.
The report shows 85% think the same tax rules should apply to MPs as any other UK employee, 74% would like an independent body to monitor MPs' expense claims and 66% think expenses should be made public on the House of Commons website.
David Vine, managing director of GlobalExpense, said: "The public wants MPs to be treated in the same way as the rest of us. By not paying tax, MPs have been applying one set of rules to themselves and another to employees in general. This smacks of unfairness and has increased the public's sense of anger at the expense abuses.
"The desire for MPs to be seen to follow the rules from now on shows the extent to which the public has lost faith with politicians. The good news is that it is relatively simple to introduce automated, externally managed, transparent expense systems."
Almost a quarter of UK voters (24%) will be less likely to vote in the forthcoming election as a result of the fiasco.
Voters want to see MPs in court over expenses fiasco
More than three-quarters (76%) of British voters think MPs guilty of the worst expense breaches should face some form of prosecution.
