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Equipment financing, tax, and market-data explainers — grounded in the same real sources and methodology as the rest of the site, not generic filler. See our methodology for how the underlying numbers are computed.

September 6, 2026

How We Actually Compute the Equipment Capital Index Rate Index

Every APR and monthly payment figure on this site comes from a deterministic amortization formula run against real government rental-rate benchmarks — not a generative estimate. Here's the exact math, and why we hold incomplete pages out of Google's index rather than publish a guess.

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