The City of Kiel issued $3,000,000 of 8% coupon, 30-year, semiannual payment, tax-exempt municipal bonds 10 years ago. The bonds had 10 years of call protection, but now the bonds can be called if the city chooses to do so. The call premium would be 6% of the face amount. New 20-year, 6%, semiannual payment bonds can be sold at par, but flotation costs on this issue would be 2% of the amount of bonds sold. Note that the combined costs associated with calling the existing bonds and paying for the flotation cost of the new issue represent the total initial outlay for the refinancing. Calculate this initial cost.
A. Calculate the total semi-annual savings associated with the refinancing.
B. What is the NPV of the refunding? Not that cities pay no income taxes, hence, taxes are not relevant in this analysis.