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An asset costs $560,000 and will be depreciated in a straight-line manner over its three-year life. It will have no salvage value. The lessor can borrow at 7.5 percent and the lessee can borrow at 9 percent. The corporate tax rate is 24 percent for both companies.
a. What lease payment will make the lessee and the lessor equally well off?
b. |
Assume that the lessee pays no taxes and the lessor is in the 24 percent tax bracket. For what range of lease payments does the lease have a positive NPV for both parties? |
Both a & b are answered below:
GivenThat,
Asset costs $560,000
three-year life
Depreciation==> 186,666.67
TaxRate ==> 24%
DepreciationTax ==> 186,666.67*24% ==> 44,800
Borrow rate at 9 percent
After Tax the Borrow rate will be ==> 9%*(1-0.24) ==>0.0684==>6.84%
Net Advantage of leasing ==> asset cost-OCF*[email protected]%,3Yrs
after calculations, we get
OCF ==> 560,000/2.6320 ==> 212,765.957
Tax Lease Payment(After)
==> OCF-DepreciationTax
==>212,765.957-44,800
==> 167,965.957
Tax Lease Payment(Before)
==> 167,965.957/(1-0.24)
==> 221,007.838
Finally, Breakeven Lease Payment is $221,007.838
lets calculate for lessee
NAL(Net Advantage of leasing) ==> asset cost-PMT*PVIFA@9%,3Yr
PVIFA@9%,3Yr==2.5313
after calculating we get that
PMT ==> 560,000/2.5313 ==> 221,230.198
Finally, The amount for lessee is ==> $221,230.198
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The Range is ==> $221,007.838 to $221,230.198