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You can invest in taxable bonds that are paying a yield of 8.9 percent or a municipal bond paying a yield of 7.15 percent. Assume your marginal tax rate is 21 percent. Which security should you buy

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Answer:

We should invest in municipal bond to have profit.

Step-by-step explanation:

  • taxable bonds: 8.9 percent
  • municipal bond: 7.15 percent
  • marginal tax rate: 21 percent.

So we need to identify the after-tax or equivalent tax exempt yield on the taxable bond:

8.9% ( 1 - 21%)

= 0.089*0.79

= 0.0703 = 7.03%

and it is smaller than the yield of municipal bond (7.15%) so we should invest in municipal bond to have profit.

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