Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) - Standalone book
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Author: Jonathan Berk, Peter DeMarzo
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Chapter 15, Problem 21P
Facebook, Inc. had no debt on its
- a. If Facebook’s investors do not pay personal taxes (because they hold their Facebook stock in tax-free retirement accounts), how much value would be created (what is the value of the tax shield)?
- b. How does your answer change if instead you assume that Facebook’s investors pay a 20% tax rate on income from equity and a 39.6% tax rate on interest income?
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