Jeff & Bezos is a fresh groceries delivery company. The company has access to borrowing funds at a pre-tax rate of 8 % per year. Jeff & Bezos pays income taxes using 24% tax rate. The company would like to start using high-speed low-altitude drones to deliver grocery purchases directly to residential customers' backyards. By doing so, the company would be saving $3.2 million pre-tax every single year. Jeff & Bezos is contemplating leasing the drones for a lease term that matches the drones' economic life. It would lease them from a different company, Nets & Flicks, that currently owns the required number of the drones. Doing that would have an estimated pre-tax annual cost of $2,130,000. Nets & Flicks' requirement is that the lease payments are made by Jeff & Bezos at the beginning of each year. Instead of leasing the fleet of the drones, Jeff & Bezos is also contemplating buying them, which would cost the company $9.9 million If the company chooses to buy them

Jeff & Bezos is a fresh groceries delivery company. The company has access to borrowing funds at a pre-tax rate of 8 % per year. Jeff & Bezos pays income taxes using 24% tax rate. The company would like to start using high-speed low-altitude drones to deliver grocery purchases directly to residential customers' backyards. By doing so, the company would be saving $3.2 million pre-tax every single year. Jeff & Bezos is contemplating leasing the drones for a lease term that matches the drones' economic life. It would lease them from a different company, Nets & Flicks, that currently owns the required number of the drones. Doing that would have an estimated pre-tax annual cost of $2,130,000. Nets & Flicks' requirement is that the lease payments are made by Jeff & Bezos at the beginning of each year. Instead of leasing the fleet of the drones, Jeff & Bezos is also contemplating buying them, which would cost the company $9.9 million If the company chooses to buy them

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