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Present Value Tables needed for this question. Sugar Corporation would like to acquire Salt Corporation on January 1 of the current year in a tax-free reorganization. Salt is particularly appealing to Sugar because Salt has a
$350,000 capital loss that can carry over for five years. Sugar expects large capital gains for the next several years in addition to its expected $2.5 million net income. At the time of the restructuring, Salt has assets valued at $2 million basis of $1.4 million). Sugar is proposing exchanging 45% of its stock for all of Salt's assets. The Federal long-term tax-exempt rate is 2.5% and Sugar's discount rate for investment decisions is currently 7%. What is the maximum present value of the capital loss to Sugar assuming it has a combined state and Federal tax rate of 25%?

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Variance

A measure of the spread of a set of data points around their mean value, indicating how much the data varies.

Binomial Random Variable

A type of random variable that results from an experiment consisting of a fixed number of independent trials, each with two possible outcomes (success or failure).

Hypergeometric Probability

The probability of a certain number of successes in draws, without replacement, from a finite population that contains exactly two kinds of objects.

Finite Population

A population set that contains a limited number of distinct units or elements.