Waller, Inc., is trying to determine its cost of debt. The firm has a debt issue outstanding with 12 years to maturity that is quoted at 96 percent of face value. The issue makes semiannual payments and has an embedded cost (i.e. a coupon rate as an APR) of 7 percent annually.

Required: (a) What is the company's pre-tax cost of debt as an APR? (Do not round your intermediate calculations.)

(b) If the tax rate is 36 percent, what is the after-tax cost of debt as an APR? (Do not round your intermediate calculations.)