
Melinda invests $200,000 in a City of Heflin bond that pays 6 percent interest. Alternatively, Melinda could have invested the $200,000 in a bond recently issued by Surething Inc. that pays 8 percent interest and has risk and other nontax characteristics similar to the City of Heflin bond. Assume Melinda’s marginal tax rate is 25 percent.
- a) What is her after-tax
rate of return for the City of Heflin bond? - b) How much explicit tax does Melinda pay on the City of Heflin bond?
- c) How much implicit tax does she pay on the City of Heflin bond?
- d) How much explicit tax would she have paid on the Surething Inc. bond?
- e) What is her after-tax rate of return on the Surething Inc. bond?

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