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Rhiannon McCluskey

@rhiannoncm.bsky.social
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Strategic communications & policy engagement consultant, currently working with @ids.ac.uk & @ictdtax.bsky.social. Driven by reducing #inequality & increasing #accountability. 🌍 📈 🏛️ Canadian 🍁 Belgian 🧇 reader 📖 hiker ⛰️ dancer 💃 diver 🧜🏻‍♀

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Rhiannon McCluskey @rhiannoncm.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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
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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'.
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Rhiannon McCluskey @rhiannoncm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
See my reflections post-Seville here! www.linkedin.com/posts/rhiann...
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#ffd4 | Rhiannon McCluskey
What a whirlwind! After the heat and intensity of the #FfD4 conference in Seville, I came home with a flu that forced me to slow down. It gave me time to reflect on what an incredible experience it’s ...
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International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) @ictdtax.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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/...
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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.
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Rhiannon McCluskey @rhiannoncm.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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
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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...
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Rhiannon McCluskey @rhiannoncm.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
My latest piece on the ICTD blog! 👇
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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.
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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...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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
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Watch Trudeau speak directly to Trump during blistering speech
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