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You work as a financial analyst at Wells Fargo. You are performing a lease analysis for a client who owns a furniture company. You want to help your client to find out how much your client should charge a 6-year lease of a new desk to a start-up company. The new desk costs $3,200 and can be depreciated on a five-year MACRS schedule. The companys pretax administrative costs including Maintenance, Insurance and Selling Cost are $250 per year and they occur at the beginning of each year. The after tax cost of capital is 10% and the tax rate is 35%. Lease payments are made in advance, that is, at the start of each year. The inflation rate is zero.

Depreciation Table for 5-year asset

Year % 1) 20.00% 2) 32.00% 3) 19.20% 4) 11.52% 5) 11.52% 6) 5.76%

a. How much is the present value of after tax administrative costs?

b. What is the present value of Depreciation tax Shield?

c. What is the after tax break-even operating lease rate?

d. What is the before tax break even operating lease rate?

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