For Companies with Very High Interest Expense, or Very Low

question 20

True/False

For companies with very high interest expense, or very low EBIT, the interest expense limitation will reduce the tax advantage to issuing debt and the equation, K d (Cost of debt) = Y(1 − T ), would need to be adjusted to reflect the impact of the new tax law.

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