Graeme Stewart-Wilson

@UofT PhD candidate | @LoGRITax doctoral fellow | Property taxes, local gov, urbanization, politics, development

[Local Government Revenue Initiative (LoGRI) @LoGRITax]

Yesterday was the first day of the in-person module of our new training initiative, the #PTDP, in #Cotonou 🇧🇯 !

After 8 online modules, the cohort had the opportunity to meet in person and learn more about the intricacies of PT reform!

Learn more ➡️https://t.co/bynyhvRTdJ

[International Centre for Tax and Development @ICTDTax]

Our researcher @gstewson speaking at the #SNGWOFI conference on how to strengthen #PropertyTaxes to enhance subnational government revenue. Sharing insights and lessons from projects in #SierraLeone & #Zambia. Learn more👉https://t.co/SALxaq4NMx

#LoGRI @munkschool @IDS_UK

[Graeme Stewart-Wilson @gstewson]

"When we published the Panama Papers a few years ago, there was a lot of outcry around the world saying that this was a system that needed to end... But we're now seeing the very people who could end the system … themselves benefiting from it." 
https://t.co/isZelAZ5f1

[International Centre for Tax and Development @ICTDTax]

📝 This new paper by @gstewson and @rwaiswa1 explores the literature on the #taxation of the #agriculture sector 🚜 and investigates potential strategies for taxing agricultural income more fairly, with #Uganda 🇺🇬 as a case study. Read more here: https://t.co/MUoTrPIi5L

[International Centre for Tax and Development @ICTDTax]

Working Paper 121- In this paper, @gstewson and @rwaiswa1 explore the literature on the taxation of the agriculture sector, with #Uganda as a case study. Further, they outline potential strategies for taxing the agriculture sector more fairly. Read here: https://t.co/8YQbLUyzYY

[Graeme Stewart-Wilson @gstewson]

@TrueAnonPod It's

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

It is hard to value buildings when you’re not even sure if they exist. In Nairobi, officials use a property register from 1982 https://t.co/xvO9ejgqHU

[International Centre for Tax and Development @ICTDTax]

The sectors & firms benefitting from #Covid19 restrictions in #Uganda are largely #tax non-compliant. Our latest blog by @gstewson & Ronald Waiswa of @URAUganda explores the opportunities & challenges of taxing these “Covid-19 winners"👇https://t.co/2YcMzGj9Xn @IDS_UK #Tax4Dev

[Graeme Stewart-Wilson @gstewson]

How should we tax after the pandemic?
https://t.co/At7GtR0CJZ

[Graeme Stewart-Wilson @gstewson]

A nice welcome back to SA 😊🥁🎉🇿🇦 https://t.co/1xt8jGdD0n

[Graeme Stewart-Wilson @gstewson]

Freetown sunsets 🌅 https://t.co/0cXCNbNjAS

[Graeme Stewart-Wilson @gstewson]

...our Paleolithic ancestors, with their faceless humanoids and capacity for silliness, seem to have known something we strain to imagine. They knew where they stood in the scheme of things, which was not very high, and this seems to have made them laugh… https://t.co/6aaXBrMCQN

[Graeme Stewart-Wilson @gstewson]

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[Graeme Stewart-Wilson @gstewson]

Those who managed to skip the border to escape the hellhole that our country had become, made for lovely, smiling and articulate butlers and waiters that attended to tourists in places like Dubai and Cape Town. Zimbabweans could, of course, read and cram… https://t.co/GHw7nFLtzD

[Graeme Stewart-Wilson @gstewson]

Nice sunday read https://t.co/UjF2f4vVDx

[Graeme Stewart-Wilson @gstewson]

"...it is probably helpful to think of a chan site not as a collection of individual people but as some kind of many-headed trickster-god; a psychotic consciousness in its own right." https://t.co/StWIIrJbz4

[Graeme Stewart-Wilson @gstewson]

Well this is just awesome https://t.co/IbizJp6owu

[Graeme Stewart-Wilson @gstewson]

A magnificent takedown.

"He also thinks phones are ruining America because people check them every four minutes. But I have to say, I was doing just that while reading his book, and I was doing it because so many things I read didn’t sound accurate, and… https://t.co/zRNv061VQg

[Graeme Stewart-Wilson @gstewson]

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[International Centre for Tax and Development @ICTDTax]

In today's blog, @WilsonPrichard argues that African governments should prioritise taxing the rich to help respond to #Covid19, starting with enforcing existing underutilised #taxes on income & property. Of course, it also covers the #politics.👇 @IDS_UK https://t.co/FZANGFs4iu