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It was an act "to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to encourage economic growth through reductions in individual income tax rates, the expensing of depreciable property, incentives for small businesses, and incentives for savings, and for other purposes".
when attracting foreign investors to the region.
For the most part so-called "tax incentives" simply remove part or all the burden of the tax from whatever market transaction is taking place. This is because almost all taxes impose what economists call an excess burden or a deadweight loss Deadweight loss is the difference between the amount of economic productivity that would occur absent the tax and that which occurs with the tax imposed. -from wikipedia-
Encouraging investment in research and development through tax cuts involves supply-side economic policy. The idea of supply-side economics was developed in the 1970s.
The role of taxation in economic development is same for all the countries. This is as we know the basic resource of generation Govt. Revenue. If the Revenue of govt will increase she will automatically spend it on the development of a country. Same is the case with Nigeria also.