Raising the personal income tax allowance to £12,500 will be a key Lib Dem demand in any coalition talks after the 2015 election, the party is to say.
Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander will say the party's 2015 manifesto is to include the pledge.
Since 2010 the personal allowance - the amount people can earn before paying income tax - has risen to £10,000.
Party leader Nick Clegg has already called for a further £500 increase to be included in this month's Budget.
And Mr Alexander, who is expected to lead his party's negotiating team if there is to be a new coalition in 2015, will say another rise of at least £500 - amounting to a tax cut of £100 a year - is to be earmarked for the first Budget or Autumn Statement after the election.
The income tax allowance stood at £6,475 when the coalition government was formed in May 2010.
'Drawing strength'According to pre-released extracts of his speech to the Lib Dem spring conference in York, the chief secretary will say: "We will fight the next election with our own ideas, our own policies, our own values - no-one else's.
"And I can tell you that a top priority in any negotiation will be our aspiration to raise the personal allowance dramatically again in the next Parliament.
"To raise it to £12,500... that would be a further tax cut for working people of £500. At our first fiscal event in the next Parliament, we would deliver another tax cut of at least £100.
"A two-term Lib Dem government would then be delivering a tax cut for working people of £1,200 - that's £100 a month."
Mr Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, has called for this month's Budget to be used to deliver a "workers' bonus", by raising the threshold to £10,500.
Mr Alexander will say: "Every day in the run-up to the Budget, Nick and I are drawing strength from our party's growing campaign to press for a further rise in the allowance to £10,500.
"That would be another £100 tax cut for working people on top of the £700 already delivered."
'Gone native'He is also expected to resume his party's criticism of its coalition partners, the Conservatives.
He will say: "In 2010 the Conservatives wanted inheritance tax cuts for millionaires, we fought for and delivered tax cuts for working people.
"In 2011 the Conservatives wanted 'shares for rights', we fought for and delivered tax cuts for working people.
"In 2013 the Conservatives wanted a tax break for married couples that excluded millions of families, we fought for and delivered - you guessed it - more tax cuts for working people.
"Now, belatedly, some Tories are lamely trying to claim credit.
"Don't get me wrong, it must be hard to be a Tory in a Treasury delivering so much Lib Dem policy, so it's no surprise if some of them have gone native."
If the results of the next general election, which is due in 2015, mean that another coalition involving the Lib Dems is a possibility, Mr Alexander will be joined in the Lib Dem negotiating team by David Laws, Lynne Featherstone and Steve Webb - who have all been ministers in the current coalition - along with Baroness Brinton.
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