The Lib Dems will outline plans to crack down on tax avoidance as party members prepare to debate crucial tax policies.

Let me offer a little marriage guidance to the new Coalition. Tax is something Conservatives and Lib Dems could fall out over. It is, however, an accident that need not happen. Deep in Lib Dem DNA is the Robin Hood principle – tax

Here for LDV readers’ delectation is Nick Clegg speaking to camera just after launching the Lib Dems’ tax proposals for the next election: tax cuts for millions of people paid for by closing tax loopholes, making polluters pay and introducing a mansion tax on homes worth over £2m. PS to the Lib Dem video production team

Following a campaign by Lib Dem MPs in wealthier London suburbs, the Lib Dems now say they would raise the mansion tax threshold from £1m to £2m. The Lib Dems have been unable to convincingly say how they’ll work out the value of people’s homes that aren’t being sold. The available figures on sales show

Brent Council's Liberal Democrats have lied again over raising council tax. Before the last election the Lib Dems promised to freeze Brent's council tax whilst their Conservative allies promised to cut it. In fact, the Lib Dem/Tory coalition has actually increased council tax by more than £100 since they came to power in 2006. In addition, the Lib Dems have imposed a series of stea...

There’s a pre-conference interview with Nick Clegg in today’s London Evening Standard (copied ‘n’ pasted across to the Daily Mail) in which the Lib Dems’ tax-cutting agenda is spelled out. Worth reading in full, but here are some highlights: On the Lib Dems plans to reduce taxes: Mr Clegg admitted the Lib-Dems had urged higher spending in

There was a lot of talk over the weekend about the Lib Dems about to unveil a policy on tax cuts, before Nick Clegg’s speech.  Earlier this blog advocated the moral case for tax cuts. However, what is interesting from the latest opinion poll due soon from IPSOS/MORI is that the figures are CON 52% (+4),

Lib Dems want to spend today telling us the poorest would be taken out of Income Tax under their plans. They are less keen to talk about how they propose paying for that. Their tax policies include: Higher Capital Gains Tax, at rates up to 50% A £5 billion tax

Tim Farron uses party conference to attack Tory partners, saying the Government without the Lib Dems would be a "nightmare".

Any remaining pretence that the Lib Dems are on the centre-left has been smashed by Nick Clegg's nauseating praise for Margaret Thatcher in the Spectator today ( There's a useful way to work out exactly where the Lib Dems are on the political spectrum, which is to look at the proposed mix of tax increases and public spending cuts the three main parties are proposing for tackling the deficit. These...