Growth Metrics

Apple (AAPL) Tax Rate (2016 - 2025)

Apple's Tax Rate history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 17.46% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Tax Rate rose 277.0% year-over-year to 17.46%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 16.56%, down 698.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 15.61%, 848.0% down from the prior year.
  • Tax Rate reached 17.46% in Q4 2025 per AAPL's latest filing, up from 16.27% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Tax Rate ranged from a high of 50.23% in Q3 2024 to a low of 10.77% in Q2 2021.
  • Average Tax Rate over 5 years is 16.95%, with a median of 15.78% recorded in 2022.
  • Peak YoY movement for Tax Rate: soared 3526bps in 2024, then plummeted -3396bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Tax Rate shows it stood at 16.03% in 2021, then fell by -1bps to 15.79% in 2022, then grew by 1bps to 15.89% in 2023, then decreased by -8bps to 14.69% in 2024, then grew by 19bps to 17.46% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for AAPL's Tax Rate are 17.46% (Q4 2025), 16.27% (Q3 2025), and 16.4% (Q2 2025).