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According to this rule, if the discount at which a bond is purchased in the secondary market is less than 0.25% of the face value for each full year from the purchase date to the bond’s maturity ...
The daily portion of the discount uses a compounded interest formula with the principal recalculated every six months. The following table illustrates how to calculate the original issue discount for a $7,462 bond with a $10,000 repayment and a three-year maturity date: [2]
Under U.S. tax rules, the de minimis rule governs the treatment of small amounts of market discount. Under the rule, if a bond is purchased with a small amount of market discount (an amount less than 0.25% of the face value of a bond times the number of complete years between the bond's acquisition date and its maturity date) the market discount is considered to be zero and the discount on the ...
A zero-coupon bond (also discount bond or deep discount bond) is a bond in which the face value is repaid at the time of maturity. [1] Unlike regular bonds, it does not make periodic interest payments or have so-called coupons, hence the term zero-coupon bond. When the bond reaches maturity, its investor receives its par (or face) value.
For example, imagine you pay federal tax at a 24 percent rate and state tax at a rate of 6 percent, and the municipal bond offers a yield of 3 percent.
For example, if you’re using your federal tax refund, you can buy an additional $5,000 in paper I bonds. The bonds are sold in increments of $25 or more when you buy them electronically.
Where r m = interest rate of municipal bond, r c = interest rate of comparable corporate bond and t = investor's tax bracket (also known as marginal tax rate): [35] = For example, assume an investor in the 38% tax bracket is offered a municipal bond that has a tax-exempt yield of 1.0%.
For notes that sell at a discount or premium, finance scholar Dr. Frank Fabozzi outlines a present value approach: project the future coupon cash flows assuming that the benchmark rate does not change and find the discount rate that makes the present value of the future cash flows equal to the market price of the note. That discount rate is the ...