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The Value of Tax Shields is Not Equal to the Present Value of Tax Shields

Pablo Fernandez
University of Navarra - IESE Business School


May 05, 2003

EFMA 2003 Helsinki Meetings

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The value of tax shields is the difference between the present values of two different cash flows, each with their own risk: the present value of taxes for the unlevered company and the present value of taxes for the levered company. For constant growth companies, the value of tax shields in a world with no leverage cost is the present value of the debt, times the tax rate, times the unlevered cost of equity, discounted at the unlevered cost of equity. This result arises as the difference of two present values and does not mean that the appropriate discount for tax shields is the unlevered cost of equity.

Keywords: value of tax shields, required return to equity, leverage cost, unlevered beta, levered beta

JEL Classifications: G12, G31, G34

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Date posted: May 05, 2003 ; Last revised: August 05, 2008

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Fernandez, Pablo, The Value of Tax Shields is Not Equal to the Present Value of Tax Shields (May 05, 2003). EFMA 2003 Helsinki Meetings. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=290727 or doi:10.2139/ssrn.290727


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