Quartz Corporation is a relatively new firm. Quartz has experienced enough losses during its early years to provide it with at least eight years of tax loss carryforwards, so Quartz's effective tax rate is zero. Quartz plans to lease equipment from New Leasing Company. The term of the lease is four years. The purchase cost of the equipment is $955,000. New Leasing Company is in the 24 percent tax bracket. There are no transaction costs to the lease. Each firm can borrow at 7 percent.
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- Quartz Corporation is a relatively new firm. Quartz has experienced enough losses during its early years to provide it with at least eight years of tax loss carryforwards, so Quartz's effective tax rate is zero. Quartz plans to lease equipment from New Leasing Company. The term of the lease is six years. The purchase cost of the equipment is $910,000. New Leasing Company is in the 21 percent tax bracket. There are no transaction costs to the lease. Each firm can borrow at 6 percent. a. What is Quartz's reservation price? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. What is New Leasing Company's reservation price? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) a. Reservation price b. Reservation priceThe Safety Razor Company has a large tax-loss carry-forward and does not expect to pay taxes for another 10 years. The company is therefore proposing to lease $110,000 of new machinery. The lease terms consist of 7 equal lease payments prepaid annually. The lessor will take CCA on the machinery at a 30% rate and the pool will never close. The first CCA tax deduction is assumed to occur at the end of the first year. There is no salvage value at the end of the machinery’s economic life. The tax rate is 35%,and the rate of interest is 11%. Wilbur Occam, the president of Safety Razor, wants to know the minimum lease payment that the lessor is likely to accept. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest whole dollar.) The minimum lease payment$JLB Corporation is attempting to determine whether to lease or purchase research equipment. The firm is in the 40% tax bracket, and its after-tax cost of debt is currently 8%. The returns of the least and of the purchase are as follows:Lease Annual end-of-year lease payments of $25,200 are required over the 3-year life of the lease. All maintenance costs will be paid by the lessor; insurance and other costs will be borne by the lessee. The lessee will exercise its option to purchase the asset for $5,000 at termination of the lease. Purchase The research equipment, costing $60,000, can be financed entirely with a 14% loan requiring annual end-of-year payments of $25,844 for 3 years. The firm in this case will depreciate the equipment under MACRS using a 3-yar recovery period (33.33%, 44.45%, 14.81%, and 7.41%, respectively). The firm will pay $1,800 per year for a service contract that covers all maintenance costs; insurance and other costs will be borne by the firm. The firm plans to…
- JLB Corporation is attempting to determine whether to lease or purchase research equipment. The firm is in the 40% tax bracket, and its after-tax cost of debt is currently 8%. The returns of the least and of the purchase are as follows:Lease Annual end-of-year lease payments of $25,200 are required over the 3-year life of the lease. All maintenance costs will be paid by the lessor; insurance and other costs will be borne by the lessee. The lessee will exercise its option to purchase the asset for $5,000 at termination of the lease. Purchase The research equipment, costing $60,000, can be financed entirely with a 14% loan requiring annual end-of-year payments of $25,844 for 3 years. The firm in this case will depreciate the equipment under MACRS using a 3-yar recovery period (33.33%, 44.45%, 14.81%, and 7.41%, respectively). The firm will pay $1,800 per year for a service contract that covers all maintenance costs; insurance and other costs will be borne by the firm. The firm plans to…Quartz Corporation is a relatively new firm. Quartz has experienced enough losses during its early years to provide it with at least eight years of tax loss carryforwards, so Quartz’s effective tax rate is zero. Quartz plans to lease equipment from New Leasing Company. The term of the lease is four years. The purchase cost of the equipment is $925,000. New Leasing Company is in the 22 percent tax bracket. There are no transaction costs to the lease. Each firm can borrow at 7 percent. a. What is Quartz’s reservation price? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. What is New Leasing Company’s reservation price? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)← Your company has purchased equipment (for $50.000) that will redoce materials and labor costs by $12,000 each year for N years. After N years, there will be no further need for the machine, and because the machine is specially designed, it will have no MV at any time. The RS, however, has ruled that you must depreciate the equipment on a SL basis with a tax life of five years. If the effective income tax rate is 35%, what is the minimum number of years your fem must operate the equipment to earn 10% per year after taxes on its investment? Click the icon to view the interest and annuity table for discrete compounding when the MARR is 10% per year Your firm must operate the equipment for minimum years to earn 10% per year after taxes on its investment (Round your answer up to the nearest whole number)
- ANB Leasing is planning to lease an asset costing $210,000. The lease period will be 6 years. At the end of 6 years, the salvage value is estimated to be $30,000. The asset will be depreciated on a straight-line basis of $30,000 per year over the 6-year period. ANB's marginal income tax rate is 40%, but its average tax rate is only 31.5%. Assuming ANB Leasing requires a 12% after-tax rate of return on the lease, determine the required annual beginning of the year lease payments. a. $31,592 b. $46,120 c. $45,609 d. $52,653Watanabe Corporation is selling one of its assets for $1,700. The asset originally cost $10,000. It has been depreciated under MACRS using a five-year recovery period, and it has been depreciated for four full years. Assume that the tax rate is 40 percent on both ordinary income and capital gains. What are the tax effects of this transaction? Jellibean Corporation will replace one of its existing assets with a newer type. The existing asset was purchased two years ago at a cost of $30,000 and was being depreciated under MACRS using a five-year recovery period. This existing asset can be sold for $25,000. The new asset that they plan to buy will cost $75,000 and will also be depreciated under MACRS using a five-year recovery period. If the assumed tax rate is 40 percent on both ordinary income and capital gains, the initial investment will be equal to what amount after adjusting for taxes? Calculate the initial purchase price for an asset that has a book value of $34,800 and has…Jabba-Dabba-Doo Inc. renovated its warehouses exactly two years ago at a cost of $3.5 million. The renovations were considered leasehold improvements, so the cost was subject to straight-line depreciation for tax purposes. The firm will not need to renovate the warehouses for another three years (from today). Given that the firm’s marginal tax rate is 35% and required return is 12%, what is the present value of the remaining depreciation tax shields on the leasehold improvement? Ignore the half-year rule, and round your answer to the nearest dollar. Select one: a. $588,449 b. $359,629 c. $513,181 d. $630,069 e. $210,303
- A corporation is attempting to determine whether it should lease or purchase equipment. The firm is in the 40% tax bracket, and its after-tax cost of debt is currently 8%. The terms of the lease and of the purchase are as follows: Lease there will be annual end-of-year lease payments of $25,200 each year over the 3-year life of the lease. All maintenance costs will be paid by the lessor; insurance and other costs will be borne by the lessee. The lessee will be able to exercise its option to purchase the asset for $5,000 at termination of the lease. Purchase The equipment which costs $60,000 can be financed completely with a 14% loan that requires annual end-of-year payments of $25,844 for 3 years. The firm in this case will depreciate the equipment under MACRS using a 3-year recovery period. (33% in year 1, 45% in year 2 and 15% in year 3). The firm will pay $1,800 per year for a service contract that covers all maintenance costs; insurance and other costs will be borne by the firm.…A company is thinking to sell an asset since it will be replaced by a higher capacity one. The estimated sale price of the asset is $300,000 while the asset has depreciated to the salvage value of $500,000. If the company has the marginal tax rate of 35%, what is the tax implication of the sale of this asset? Round to the nearest penny. If tax llabilities, type a negative sign in front. Do not include a dollar sign in your answer. (I. e. If your answer is tax liabilites of 58, 765, 43, type-8765.43; if tax shield of S8, 76543 type 8765.43).Easter Corporation will replace one of its assets with an updated model. The current asset was purchased two years ago at a cost of $70,000. It has been depreciated under MACRS using a five-year recovery period. The company can sell this existing asset for $30,000. The new asset is going to cost $80,000 and will also be depreciated under MACRS using a five-year recovery period. If the assumed tax rate is 40 percent on both ordinary income and capital gains, the initial investment will be equal to what amount after adjusting for taxes?
