What is the tax effect of a sale of assets that were bought $9$ years ago for $$12$ million, depreciated straight$-$line over $15$ years, and sold today for $$3\mathrm{.}5$ million? The tax rate is $30\%.$ Express in $ million, to the nearest $$0\mathrm{.}01$ million, drop the $ sign. Precede an outflow $($a tax payment$)$ with the negative sign, enter an inflow $($a decrease in taxes$)$ as a positive value.