Traditional models of capital budgeting including taxes are based on deterministic tax rates and tax bases. In reality …, however, there are multiple sources of tax uncertainty. Tax reforms induce frequent changes in both tax rates and tax bases …, making future taxation of investments a stochastic process. Fiscal authorities and tax courts create additional tax …

Tax legislation, fiscal authorities, and tax courts create tax uncertainty by frequent tax reforms and various … different interpretations of the tax law. Moreover, investors generate model-specific tax uncertainty by using simplified models … that anticipate the actual tax base incorrectly. I analyze the effects of stochastic taxation on investment behavior in a …