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Tax Issues Associated with Financial Planning
Understanding the tax consequences of your financial planning decisions is very important. These decisions may sometimes have life-long consequences in addition to a one-time result.
For example when a person decides to save for retirement there are tax consequences for each year when money is added to the account as well as when it grows. There are additional consequences later when that person decides to retire and use the money to live on.
This assignment looks at another example of tax issues associated with financial planning. You will look at the use of tax-exempt investment instruments such as municipal bonds as an alternative to traditional investments and corporate bonds or stocks.
Consider the following:
Bill Smith a manager of a restaurant/bar in Los Angeles is in the 25% marginal tax bracket and pays an additional 5% in taxes to the state of California. Bill has $20000 invested in corporate bonds which is currently earning an average annual return of 7.5%.
Additionally Bill also has another $20000 invested in municipal bonds from the city of Los Angeles that are being used to redevelop depressed areas downtown. These bonds pay an average return of 5.4%.
Assume that in both cases Bill earns the same returns as calculated on both the corporate and municipal bonds each year for the next 15 years.
Answer the following:
Present the calculations and answers in Excel spreadsheet format or in Word format. Write the interpretation of results in a Word document. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.