Lease versus Buy
Big Sky Mining Company must install $1.5 million of new
machinery in its Nevada mine. It can obtain a bank loan for 100% of
the purchase price, or it can lease the machinery. Assume that the
following facts apply:
- The machinery falls into the MACRS 3-year class.
- Under either the lease or the purchase, Big Sky must pay for
insurance, property taxes, and maintenance.
- The firm's tax rate is 30%.
- The loan would have an interest rate of 13%. It would be
nonamortizing, with only interest paid at the end of each year for
four years and the principal repaid at Year 4.
- The lease terms call for $400,000 payments at the end of each
of the next 4 years.
- Big Sky Mining has no use for the machine beyond the expiration
of the lease, and the machine has an estimated residual value of
$300,000 at the end of the 4th year.
|
MACRS |
Year |
Allowance Factor |
1 |
0.3333 |
2 |
0.4445 |
3 |
0.1481 |
4 |
0.0741 |
What is the NAL of the lease? Round your answer to the nearest
dollar.
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