Growth Metrics

Cars.com (CARS) Tax Rate (2016 - 2026)

Cars.com has reported Tax Rate over the past 10 years, most recently at 15.09% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly Tax Rate rose 116.0% to 15.09% in Q4 2025 from the year-ago period, while the trailing twelve-month figure was 40.47% through Dec 2025, down 6258.0% year-over-year, with the annual reading at 40.47% for FY2025, 6258.0% down from the prior year.
  • Tax Rate was 15.09% for Q4 2025 at Cars.com, down from 28.44% in the prior quarter.
  • Over five years, Tax Rate peaked at 30.6% in Q2 2024 and troughed at 8855.85% in Q2 2023.
  • The 5-year median for Tax Rate is 6.89% (2021), against an average of 465.29%.
  • Year-over-year, Tax Rate crashed -886761bps in 2023 and then skyrocketed 888645bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Tax Rate shows it stood at 6.64% in 2021, then surged by 551bps to 29.95% in 2022, then tumbled by -1240bps to 341.35% in 2023, then surged by 104bps to 13.94% in 2024, then increased by 8bps to 15.09% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CARS's Tax Rate are 15.09% (Q4 2025), 28.44% (Q3 2025), and 29.68% (Q2 2025).