This research was undertaken to ascertain how tax incentives drive economic inequality across the regional economic blocs in Kenya. The main objective of the study was to generate evidence-based fiscal practices and incentive schemes that exacerbate the inequality that constrains domestic resource mobilization across regional economic blocs.
The specific objectives were:
1. To establish the types of tax incentives granted by the national and county government
2. To examine justifications for granting the incentives at the national and county government
3. To investigate challenges facing the existing tax incentives schemes
4. To investigate how incentives are causing inequality within and across regional economic blocs
5. To make recommendations on how to overcome the identified challenges