Report: Kenya's tax incentives boon for the rich as poor suffer

KRA official (left) assists a client to file tax returns at its Nyeri offices on June 29, 2019. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

The government is giving rich individuals and multinationals too many tax incentives at the expense of millions of ordinary Kenyans bereft of critical public services.

This is according to a new report authored by various civil society organisations that now want the government to be more transparent in publishing tax expenditures, which is one of the benchmarks in the programme that Kenya has with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).