Assume that the user cost of capital (C) is simply
where r is the after tax rate of return, ? is the depreciation rate, ? is the corporate tax rate and,
r is the individual tax rate. Now assume further that the after-tax rate of return is 10 percent
and the economic depreciation rate is 2 percent. The firm faces corporate taxes of 35 percent
with an individual tax rate of 25 percent. What is the user cost of capital in this case?
Solving for C yields C = (0.10 + 0.02)/(1 - 0.35)(1 - 0.25) = 0.2462 or 24.62%.
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