Your company needs to acquire a new heavy-duty truck, as shown in the picture below, to haul equipment and supplies to the new LNG terminal being built at Kitimat, BC. The tractor and trailer costs $240,000. Your options are to borrow at an interest rate of 8% (pre-tax) or lease the unit. Neither option will affect revenue. If you lease, the lease payments are $40,000 per year, payable at the beginning of each year, for eight years. If you buy the truck and trailer, you will use a CcA rate of 30%, using the Accelerated Investment Incentive. Initially, assume that both firms have a tax rate of 40%. If the asset pool is closed at the end of eight years and you take a terminal loss at the end of year 8 equal to the undepreciated capital cost, what happens to the NAL to both the lessee and the lessor, assuming they both have a 40% tax rate? VAL to the Lessee becomes $16,556 NAL to the Lessor becomes $16,556 NAL to the Lessee becomes +$16,556 NAL to the Lessor becomes +$16,556 a. and d. above are true If the lessee has a zero percent tax rate, what is the maximum lease payment the lessee will be willing to make: $36,793 $39,669 $40,000 $38,670 $37,884 Your company needs to acquire a new heavy-duty truck, as shown in the picture below, to haul equipment and supplies to the new LNG terminal being built at Kitimat, BC. The tractor and trailer costs $240,000. Your options are to borrow at an interest rate of 8% (pre-tax) or lease the unit. Neither option will affect revenue. If you lease, the lease payments are $40,000 per year, payable at the beginning of each year, for eight years. If you buy the truck and trailer, you will use a CcA rate of 30%, using the Accelerated Investment Incentive. Initially, assume that both firms have a tax rate of 40%. If the asset pool is closed at the end of eight years and you take a terminal loss at the end of year 8 equal to the undepreciated capital cost, what happens to the NAL to both the lessee and the lessor, assuming they both have a 40% tax rate? VAL to the Lessee becomes $16,556 NAL to the Lessor becomes $16,556 NAL to the Lessee becomes +$16,556 NAL to the Lessor becomes +$16,556 a. and d. above are true If the lessee has a zero percent tax rate, what is the maximum lease payment the lessee will be willing to make: $36,793 $39,669 $40,000 $38,670 $37,884