The Safety Razor Company has a large tax-loss carry-forward and does not expect to pay taxes for another 10 years. The company is therefore proposing to lease $200,000 of new machinery. The lease terms consist of 9 equal lease payments prepaid annually. The lessor will take CCA on the machinery at a 25% rate and the pool will never close. The first CCA tax deduction is assumed to occur at the end of the first year. There is no salvage value at the end of the machinerys economic life. The tax rate is 35%,and the rate of interest is 11%. Wilbur Occam, the president of Safety Razor, wants to know the minimum lease payment that the lessor is likely to accept. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest whole dollar.)

a) The minimum lease payment?