Employee-owned companies such as the John Lewis department store could be given capital gains tax (CGT) breaks, under plans being drawn up by deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
Business secretary Vince Cable has urged the government to make failed bank Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) a state-run business lender.
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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is to urge the coalition today to "go further and faster" in implementing an increase in the income tax threshold.
The Liberal Democrats are urging Chancellor George Osborne to include a mansion tax on homes worth £2m or more in his Spring Budget announcement.
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has suggested the Budget 2012 will contain new rules to tackle tax dodging by the rich.
Means testing for winter fuel allowance would reduce spending on pensioner benefits despite the administrative cost, the government has said.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called for state pension benefits to be means-tested in a move which would see wealthier older people having to pay for certain services currently available to them free of charge.
Taxpayers will underwrite mortgages totalling hundreds of millions of pounds under government plans to "unblock" the housing market and revive the flagging economy.