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A company with a tax rate of 40% borrows $100M from lender A at a cost of 8% and $300M from lender B at a cost of 6%. What is the firm’s aggregate cost of borrowing (a) before taxes; and (b) after taxes?
Borrowing from lender A= $100 million
Borrowing from lender B= $300
Total debt= $400 million
Debt from lender A= $100 / $400 million
= 0.25*100= 25%
Debt from lender B= $300 / $400 million
= 0.75*100= 75%
(a)Aggregate before tax cost of debt= 0.25*8% + 0.75*6%
= 2% + 7450%
= 6.50%.
(b) Aggregate after tax cost of debt= before tax cost of debt*(1 – tax rate)
= 6.50%*(1 – 0.40)
= 3.90%.
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