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

Cars.com has disclosed Tax Rate across 11 years of filings, most recently posting 42.89% for Q1 2026.

• In Q1 2026, Tax Rate rose 10615.0% year-over-year to 42.89%; the TTM figure through Mar 2026 stood at 190.73% (up 31242.0% YoY), while the FY2025 annual figure was 40.47%, up 9912.0% from the prior year.
• Tax Rate grew to 42.89% in Q1 2026, from 15.09% in the prior quarter.
• Over the last five years, Tax Rate for CARS reached as high as 5713.54% in Q4 2023 and fell as low as 8855.85% in Q2 2023.
• The 5-year median for Tax Rate is 11.76% (2022), against an average of 190.29%.
• Annual changes were most pronounced in 2023 — Tax Rate plunged 886761 bps — and 2024, when it jumped 888645 bps.
• 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 slumped 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.
• According to Business Quant data, Tax Rate over the past three periods registered 42.89%, 15.09%, and 28.44% for Q1 2026, Q4 2025, and Q3 2025 respectively.