Debt financing has one important advantage that the early MM propositions ignored: interest on debt is tax deductible. The amount that taxes are reduced because of the use of debt is called the interest tax shield. Consider this case: Suppose Stoler Food Co. had an unlevered value of $85 million. Stoler's marginal tax rate is 40%, and it has $40 million in debt. According to MM's proposition with taxes, what is the levered value of the company? $101.00million $45.00 million $125.00 million $69.00 million Adding to the discussion regarding the effect of taxes on the firm's value, Miller further discussed the effect of taxes from an investor's perspective. His focus was on the effect of personal taxes and to what extent personal taxes can diminish the benefit of debt financing. He resented the value of a levered firm as: VL=VU+[(1(1Td)(1Tc)(1Ts))]D According to Miller's theory on the impact of personal taxes, which of the following statements is true? Debt financing has a disadvantage over equity financing because it provides interest deductibility. Income from a stock can be deferred until an investor decides to realize capital gains from the stock. This favors equity financing