Rhiannon McCluskey
@RhiannonCM
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Strategic Comms & Policy Engagement Consultant in #InternationalDevelopment. Working with @ICTDTax & @IDS_UK on #Tax4Dev #FfD4 #Governance 🌍 📈 🏛️
Brighton, UK
Joined October 2009
Just landed in Seville! See what we’re up to this week at #FFD4 👉
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Members of the ICTD team will be in Seville to speak at events, launch a new initiative, and participate in discussions on successful domestic resource mobilisation strategies for financing sustain...
#FfD4 marks a critical moment that will shape the global framework for financing development over the next decade. As world leaders gather at the 4th Financing for Development conference, @RhiannonCM explains how ICTD has been engaging on the process 📺 https://t.co/uAlahr5XXf
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My latest piece on the ICTD blog! 👇 #GenderEquality
It’s time for a broader, bolder feminist fiscal agenda, argue @CarenGrown @giulia_mascagni & @RhiannonCM. 🚺 Today's @UNECOSOC meeting on #gender and #tax is a key opportunity to move in this direction. READ 👉 https://t.co/ekziWqJbhp
#TaxTwitter #IWD2025 @BrookingsInst
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🌍 The 3rd PrepCom session for the #FfD4 Conference is happening this week in New York. ICTD is engaging with key stakeholders, aiming to inform the process with insights & recommendations from our body of research. Read them here: https://t.co/TkKnIaO5xc
#TaxTwitter #Tax4Dev
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🌎 In this blog, @RhiannonCM outlines the four priority areas identified by experts from ICTD, @LoGRITax, and the @WorldBank during the 2nd PrepComm session for the #FfD4 Conference to held in July this year. Read ➡️ https://t.co/gI3OlASHp7
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Are you in New York this week for #FfD4? Join us tomorrow to discuss: How can the inclusion of newer tax issues on the agenda be as effective as possible? ➡️ Taxing the wealthy ➡️ Taxing the informal sector ➡️ Strengthening subnational taxes ➡️ Digitalizing tax systems
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An important topic! Read the recommendations based on research, including: 🔍Ways to identify & tax income more effectively 🏘️Taxing property 💻Better leveraging exchange of information Read the blog 👉 https://t.co/wbkU7klIAT
@RhiannonCM @giulia_mascagni #ATAFATRN23 @ATAFtax
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Before considering a new wealth tax, lower-income countries should focus on better implementing existing taxes that target the wealthy.
[HAPPENING NOW] Session 2 on the second day of ATAF's 8th ATRN Congress will decode the tax puzzle for high-net-worth individuals in Africa. What are the unique complexities involved in taxing high-net-worth individuals in Africa? #ATAFATRN23
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Apply to join my fantastic team at @ICTDTax, based at @IDS_UK! 🚨Deadline is Sunday! #job #opportunity #communications
📢 We are hiring! We are seeking to recruit a #Communications Officer to work for @ICTDTax who will design and deliver successful communication and impact strategies. Closing date: 23 July. Apply: 👉 https://t.co/lwR0nvrmXd
#commsjob #charitycomms #tax @bondjobs @devcomms
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Opportunity to join our amazing team at @IDS_UK!
📢 We're hiring! Join our team as a Communications Officer to help maximise the impact of our work. Details 👇 https://t.co/7ZlBD09kI6
#job #communications #commsjob #charitycomms @IDS_UK @bondjobs @GuardianJobs
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Read more about the research & what we think lower-income countries should do to tax the wealthy now here 👉 https://t.co/wbkU7klIAT
@giulia_mascagni @RhiannonCM @TaxCompact @WilsonPrichard
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Before considering a new wealth tax, lower-income countries should focus on better implementing existing taxes that target the wealthy.
Wilson Prichard of ICTD: "Taxing the wealthiest is where we need to focus. It's where the potential is and success of Uganda on taxing HNWI and Sierra Leone on property tax shows it can be done and builds legitimacy of the tax system". At #AddisTaxInitiative general assembly.
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Was great to be part of this! #Tax4Dev
Last week I had a great time exchanging insights on the role of research in tax administration with @ICTDTax partners at @IDS_UK. I learned a lot! 📢more to come on this theme soon📢 For now, here's another picture of some of the wonderful women leading the way in tax research.
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Important findings & implications from this research on taxpayer registration drives. Great summary thread 👇
🧵Countries across Africa have looked to registering new taxpayers as a path to rely less on international donors. However, often these campaigns don't raise much revenue - and hit some of the poorest. What is happening? Our new @ICTDTax working paper offers some explanations: 1/
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🚨 FINAL CALL: #Opportunity for 6 consultants The #research project seeks to add a “national lens” to debates about the appropriateness of international #tax standards to lower-income countries. 📅 DEADLINE: 30 April More info 👇 @IDS_UK @martinhearson
https://t.co/IKFLvIrvjZ
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What should lower-income countries do to #tax the wealthy❓ @giulia_mascagni & @RhiannonCM argue that before considering new #wealth taxes, LICs should focus on better implementing existing taxes on income & property that target the wealthy. @IDS_UK Read👉 https://t.co/ebQjIlWiBN
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Before considering a new wealth tax, lower-income countries should focus on better implementing existing taxes that target the wealthy.
Extreme wealth and extreme poverty have increased simultaneously for the first time in 25 years. Billionaire wealth is booming, while millions struggle to survive. Let’s end this era of #SurvivalOfTheRichest. It’s time to #TaxTheRich to #FightInequality. https://t.co/bHXWrK4LTH
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Some great advice in this thread on how to do #research that influences #policy! 👇 @IDS_UK @IDSalumni @ICTDTax #impact @IDRC_CRDI
If you were going to give one piece of advice to an early career researcher on how to do research that influences policy, what would it be?
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📊 The latest update of @CIVICUSMonitor ratings indicates that #CivilSociety continues to work in an increasingly hostile environment and only 3.4% of the world’s population lives in countries with open civic space.
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Scandalous.
The FCDO has been asked freeze 'non-essential aid spending' because the 'new lower ODA limit was about to be breached'. Here's a tale of two spending departments since 2020 - (MoD and FCDO) showing how it is different rules for different depts (1/n) https://t.co/zfNmVjCHgh
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🎓 At @ICTDTax we run a year-long "Research on Tax and Development" course for researchers, activists, journalists, policymakers, especially from lower income counties. It's free of charge and travel is covered. Applications are now open - please share! https://t.co/xBtekDL07Z
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We are accepting applications for the 2022 ‘Research on Tax and Development’ course until midnight (BST) on July 17th 2022.
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Happy to have launched this interactive #data site on the need to increase taxes on #tobacco in #WestAfrica in time for #WorldNoTobaccoDay2022! It’s been a pleasure working with @Tobaccoecon @CresContact & @AgileCollective on this project, thank you @IDRC_CRDI & @CRUK_Policy!
#Tobacco kills over 8m people/year, but did you know cigarettes have become more affordable in #Africa? Increasing tobacco #taxes is the most effective way to⬇️smoking🚭while⬆️ government💰 Learn more in our new interactive site👇 https://t.co/SLtZGaEAev
#WorldNoTobaccoDay2022
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