Given the following information, leverage will add how much value to the unlevered firm per dollar of debt? Corporate tax rate: 35% Personal tax rate on income from bonds: 25% Personal tax rate on income from stocks: 30%    A.  $-0.625   B.  $0.287   C.  $0.393   D.  $0.635   E.  None of these

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Given the following information, leverage will add how much value to the unlevered firm per dollar of debt?
Corporate tax rate: 35%
Personal tax rate on income from bonds: 25%
Personal tax rate on income from stocks: 30% 
 

A. 

$-0.625

 

B. 

$0.287

 

C. 

$0.393

 

D. 

$0.635

 

E. 

None of these

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The management likes to use leverage for making investment strategy if they are funding from various sources in a way that leads to high return on investment.

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Given the following information, leverage will add how much value to the unlevered firm per dollar of debt? 
Corporate tax rate: 34%
Personal tax rate on income from bonds: 40%
Personal tax rate on income from stocks: 30%

I know the answer is 0.138 dollars, but following your method the answer is 0.23 dollars. Are you sure this is correct?
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