 Valuation effects of taxes on debt cancellationMarko Krause and Alexander Lahmann The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2017, vol. 65, issue C, 346-354 Abstract: Standard models on firm valuation regard a simplified default setting, often not revealing relevant implicit assumptions. In this paper, we analyze the impact of risky debt and of taxes on a cancellation of indebtedness (COD) on tax savings. For the case of a taxation of a COD, we explicitly show that the risky components in the pricing equation of tax savings cancel out so that the tax shield pricing is similar to the case of risk-free tax savings. Furthermore, assuming no tax on a COD, we show the standard textbook equations for the tax shield, the tax-adjusted discount rates and WACC subject to risky debt to be generally valid only for a pro-rata loss distribution between interest and principal payments. Using standard equations for the case of no taxes on a COD in case of a non-proportional loss distribution can lead to substantial misvaluations, which we illustrate with an example. Keywords: G12; G31; G32; G33; Default risk; Tax treatment of default; Tax savings; Tax-adjusted discount rates (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:quaeco:v:65:y:2017:i:c:p:346-354 DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2016.11.005 Access Statistics for this article The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance is currently edited by R. J. Arnould and J. E. Finnerty More articles in The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance from Elsevier |
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