Rhiannon McCluskey
@rhiannoncm.bsky.social
Strategic communications & policy engagement consultant, currently working with @ids.ac.uk & @ictdtax.bsky.social. Driven by reducing #inequality & increasing #accountability. 🌍 📈 🏛️
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How can countries strengthen their tax systems in a post-aid world - and do it equitably?
Join us on Oct 16 for “Taxing Smarter after Aid”, a conversation about pressing fiscal & fairness issues.
Info👇 www.ictd.ac/event/taxing...
@taicollab.bsky.social @ictdtax.bsky.social @accountlab.bsky.social
Join us on Oct 16 for “Taxing Smarter after Aid”, a conversation about pressing fiscal & fairness issues.
Info👇 www.ictd.ac/event/taxing...
@taicollab.bsky.social @ictdtax.bsky.social @accountlab.bsky.social
Taxing Smarter after Aid: Accountability, Equity and Public Finance in a New Global Reality - ICTD
Join the ICTD, Accountability Lab, and the TAI Collaborative during the IMF/WB Annual Meetings for an afternoon of discussion on pressing fiscal and fairness issues in the 'tax era of development'.
www.ictd.ac
October 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
How can countries strengthen their tax systems in a post-aid world - and do it equitably?
Join us on Oct 16 for “Taxing Smarter after Aid”, a conversation about pressing fiscal & fairness issues.
Info👇 www.ictd.ac/event/taxing...
@taicollab.bsky.social @ictdtax.bsky.social @accountlab.bsky.social
Join us on Oct 16 for “Taxing Smarter after Aid”, a conversation about pressing fiscal & fairness issues.
Info👇 www.ictd.ac/event/taxing...
@taicollab.bsky.social @ictdtax.bsky.social @accountlab.bsky.social
See my reflections post-Seville here! www.linkedin.com/posts/rhiann...
September 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
See my reflections post-Seville here! www.linkedin.com/posts/rhiann...
Reposted by Rhiannon McCluskey
Ahead of next week's #FinancingforDevelopmentForum and the 4th PrepComm, check out these recommendations for ten priority areas of domestic resource mobilisation (responding to the outcome document) compiled by @rhiannoncm.bsky.social
#ffd4 #DRM #tax #publicfinance
www.ictd.ac/publication/...
#ffd4 #DRM #tax #publicfinance
www.ictd.ac/publication/...
First Draft of the FfD4 Outcome Document: Recommendations on Domestic Public Resources
Responding to the first draft of the Financing for Development outcome document, this brief puts forward recommendations for ten priority areas of domestic resource mobilisation.
www.ictd.ac
April 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Ahead of next week's #FinancingforDevelopmentForum and the 4th PrepComm, check out these recommendations for ten priority areas of domestic resource mobilisation (responding to the outcome document) compiled by @rhiannoncm.bsky.social
#ffd4 #DRM #tax #publicfinance
www.ictd.ac/publication/...
#ffd4 #DRM #tax #publicfinance
www.ictd.ac/publication/...
As we enter the critical phase of #FfD4 negotiations, @giuliamascagni.bsky.social argues that with #aid declining, donor countries must make a concrete commitment to scale up investment in strengthening #tax systems.
Read 👇 www.ictd.ac/blog/aid-dec...
@ictdtax.bsky.social
Read 👇 www.ictd.ac/blog/aid-dec...
@ictdtax.bsky.social
With aid declining, FfD4 must include a concrete commitment to scale up investment in tax systems - ICTD
I recently took part in the third high-level symposium of the UNDP’s Finance, Integrity and Governance...
www.ictd.ac
April 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
As we enter the critical phase of #FfD4 negotiations, @giuliamascagni.bsky.social argues that with #aid declining, donor countries must make a concrete commitment to scale up investment in strengthening #tax systems.
Read 👇 www.ictd.ac/blog/aid-dec...
@ictdtax.bsky.social
Read 👇 www.ictd.ac/blog/aid-dec...
@ictdtax.bsky.social
My latest piece on the ICTD blog! 👇
It’s time for a broader, bolder feminist fiscal agenda, argue
Caren Grown, @giuliamascagni.bsky.social & @rhiannoncm.bsky.social.
🚺 Today's @un-ecosoc.bsky.social meeting on #gender and #tax is a key opportunity to move in this direction.
READ 👉 ow.ly/CejT50Vqixp
#IWD2025 @brookings.edu
Caren Grown, @giuliamascagni.bsky.social & @rhiannoncm.bsky.social.
🚺 Today's @un-ecosoc.bsky.social meeting on #gender and #tax is a key opportunity to move in this direction.
READ 👉 ow.ly/CejT50Vqixp
#IWD2025 @brookings.edu
Time for a broader, bolder approach to tax justice for women - ICTD
As policymakers gather to discuss gender and tax at the UN today, this blog draws on research to call for moving beyond a narrow focus on gender bias in tax policy toward a broader, more effective fem...
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March 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
My latest piece on the ICTD blog! 👇
Reposted by Rhiannon McCluskey
Just in from AP:
Trump and Musk are planning to cut the IRS workforce by as much as half.
Just a reminder that cutting the IRS a) costs us money and b) forces them to focus on easier, lower-workhour audits like ours instead of billionaires.
Trump and Musk are planning to cut the IRS workforce by as much as half.
Just a reminder that cutting the IRS a) costs us money and b) forces them to focus on easier, lower-workhour audits like ours instead of billionaires.
The IRS is drafting plans to cut as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce, AP sources say
The IRS is drafting plans to try to cut its workforce of roughly 90,000 people in half through a mix of layoffs, attrition and incentivized buyouts, according to two people familiar with the situation...
apnews.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Just in from AP:
Trump and Musk are planning to cut the IRS workforce by as much as half.
Just a reminder that cutting the IRS a) costs us money and b) forces them to focus on easier, lower-workhour audits like ours instead of billionaires.
Trump and Musk are planning to cut the IRS workforce by as much as half.
Just a reminder that cutting the IRS a) costs us money and b) forces them to focus on easier, lower-workhour audits like ours instead of billionaires.
Reposted by Rhiannon McCluskey
If you haven't yet watched Justin Trudeau address Americans, Trump, and Canadians about the stupidity of launching a trade war against your closest ally and neighbor—and how baseless any of Trump's claims are—you really should watch it: youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w
Watch Trudeau speak directly to Trump during blistering speech
YouTube video by CNN
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March 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
If you haven't yet watched Justin Trudeau address Americans, Trump, and Canadians about the stupidity of launching a trade war against your closest ally and neighbor—and how baseless any of Trump's claims are—you really should watch it: youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w