Puget Corporation owns 80 percent of the voting stock of the Sound Company. On January 1, 20X7, Sound sold bonds with a par value of $300,000 when the market rate was 7 per cent. Puget bought two-thirds of the bonds; the rest were sold to unaffiliated companies. The bonds mature in ten years and pay an annual interest rate of 6 percent. Interest is paid semi-annually on June 30 and December 31.

Based on the information provided above, how much interest expense will be eliminated in preparing the 20X8 consolidated financial statements?