a)
To determine: The total dollar call premium required to call the old issue, whether it is tax deductible and the net after-tax cost of the call.
a)

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The overall premium is
b)
To determine: The dollar floatation cost and whether it is immediately tax deductible and post-tax flotation cost.
b)

Explanation of Solution
On the new issue the currency flotation rate is
c)
To determine: The amounts of old issue floatation cost and not been expensed and whether these deferred costs be expensed immediately if the old issue is refunded and the value of tax savings.
c)

Explanation of Solution
On the old issue the flotation costs were
d)
To determine: The net post-tax cash outlay needed to refund the old issue.
d)

Explanation of Solution
e)
To determine: The semiannual tax savings that arises from amortizing the floatation cost and the foregone semiannual tax savings on the old-issue floatation cost.
e)

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The $1,600,000 cost of new issue flotation would be
f)
To determine: The semiannually post-tax interest savings that would result from the refunding.
f)

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The interest on the old issue is
g)
To determine: The sum of these two semiannual cash flows and appropriate discount rate to apply to these two semiannual cash flows and the
g)

Explanation of Solution
The estimated amortization tax benefits over 20 years are about $3,200 per year, while the net interest costs over 20 years are about $360,000 per year. The net semi-annual cash balance, as shown below, is thus $356,800.
The cash flows are predicated on treaty obligations and therefore have about the same level of risk as to the debt of the company. In fact, the cash flows are already tax-net. Consequently, the suitable interest rate is the after-tax cost of debt to GST.(The citation of the cash to fund the net investment expenditure also affects the discount rate, but most companies use debt to finance that expenditure, and in this case, the discount rate should be the after-tax debt cost.)Finally, as we are valuing future flows, the correct debt cost is the cost of today, or the cost of the new issue, and not the debt cost that floated five years ago. The appropriate rate of discount is thus 0.6(8 percent) = 4.8 percent per annum, or 2.4 percent per semi-annual period.
h)
To determine: The
h)

Explanation of Solution
The redemption of bonds would entail a net cash outlay of $3,472,000, but on a present-value basis it would yield $9,109,413 in net savings. The refunding NPV is thus $5,637,413:
The choice to repay instead of wait until later is much harder than finding the refunding NPV now. If interest rates were expected to fall, and therefore GST could issue debt below today's 8 percent rate in the future, then it might pay to wait. Interest rate motions, however, are very difficult to predict, if not impossible, and thus most
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