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- Title
Debt Management under Corporate and Personal Taxation.
- Authors
MAUER, DAVID C.; LEWELLEN, WILBUR G.
- Abstract
The presence of long-term debt in a corporation's capital structure is shown to give rise to a valuable tax-timing option that can be exercised by the firm on behalf of its shareholders. This option, which is not available if the firm is fully equity financed, implies that leverage will have a positive tax effect on total firm value even if there is no such effect associated with the tax deductibility of the coupon interest payments on debt. The more volatile interest rates and bond prices are, the more valuable the tax-timing option and the larger the favorable impact of debt on shareholder wealth.
- Subjects
DEBT management; CORPORATE debt; CORPORATE taxes; CAPITAL structure; LONG-term debt; FINANCIAL leverage; STOCKHOLDERS; TAX deductions; VALUATION of corporations; INTEREST rates; BOND prices; MARKET value; MANAGEMENT
- Publication
Journal of Finance (Wiley-Blackwell), 1987, Vol 42, Issue 5, p1275
- ISSN
0022-1082
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-6261.1987.tb04366.x