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Your firm currently has $92 million in debt outstanding with a 9% interest rate. The terms of the loan require the firm to repay $23 million of the balance each year. Suppose that the marginal corporate tax rate is 40%, and that the interest tax shields have the same risk as the loan. What is the present value of the interest tax shields from this debt?

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The present value of interest tax shields is calculated by discounting the tax savings from interest payments at the marginal tax rate. With an initial interest payment of $8.28 million and a 40% tax rate, the yearly tax shield is $3.312 million, but this decreases as the debt is repaid. The full calculation requires additional information such as a discount rate.

Step-by-step explanation:

The calculation of the present value (PV) of the interest tax shields from the debt involves discounting the annual tax savings due to the interest payments. The annual interest payment on the debt is 9% of $92 million, which is $8.28 million. The tax shield for each year is 40% of this interest payment, resulting in a tax shield of $3.312 million per year. As the firm repays $23 million of the debt each year, the interest payment and hence the tax shield would decrease each year.

However, to provide an accurate answer, we would need to calculate the PV of these tax shields over the term of the debt. This is not done here as the necessary information, such as the discount rate for tax shields, is not provided. Assuming the discount rate equals the interest rate on the debt (9%), we would need to calculate the PV of a decreasing annuity to find the total value of the interest tax shields.

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