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Your Company is considering a new project that will require $880,000 of new equipment at the start of the project. The equipment will have a depreciable life of 5 years and will be depreciated to a book value of $300,000 using straight-line depreciation. The cost of capital is 13%, and the firm's tax rate is 21%. Estimate the present value of the tax benefits from depreciation.
$116,000
$91,640
$85,680
$24,360
| Annual Depreciation = (Cost Of The Asset- Salvage Value)/ Life Of The Asset | ||||
| = $880000-300000/5 years | ||||
| = $116000 per year | ||||
| Tax on depreciation =$116000*21%=24360 | ||||
| Year | Cash Flow | PV Factor | PV Of Cash Flow | |
| a | b | c=1/1.13^a | d=b*c | |
| 1 | $ 24,360 | 0.884956 | $ 21,557.52 | |
| 2 | $ 24,360 | 0.783147 | $ 19,077.45 | |
| 3 | $ 24,360 | 0.69305 | $ 16,882.70 | |
| 4 | $ 24,360 | 0.613319 | $ 14,940.44 | |
| 5 | $ 24,360 | 0.54276 | $ 13,221.63 | |
| Present value of tax benefits | $ 85,680 | |||