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

Cars.com (CARS) has 11 years of Tax Rate data on file, last reported at 42.89% in Q1 2026.

• Tax Rate for Q1 2026 came in at 42.89%, up 10615.0% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was 190.73% (up 31242.0% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was 40.47%, up 9912.0% from the prior year.
• Tax Rate improved to 42.89% in Q1 2026 per CARS's latest filing, from 15.09% in the prior quarter.
• Over five years, Tax Rate peaked at 5713.54% in Q4 2023 and troughed at 8855.85% in Q2 2023.
• A 5-year average of 190.29% and a median of 11.76% in 2022 frame the typical range for Tax Rate.
• The sharpest annual moves came in 2023 and 2024: Tax Rate slumped 886761 bps in 2023, then jumped 888645 bps in 2024.
• A 5-year view of Tax Rate shows it stood at 37.76% in 2022, then surged by 15031 bps to 5713.54% in 2023, then plunged by 100 bps to 5.44% in 2024, then surged by 378 bps to 15.09% in 2025, then jumped by 184 bps to 42.89% in 2026.
• Business Quant data shows CARS's Tax Rate at 42.89% in Q1 2026, 15.09% in Q4 2025, and 28.44% in Q3 2025.