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Caterpillar (CAT) Tax Rate (2016 - 2025)

Caterpillar has reported Tax Rate over the past 17 years, most recently at 23.53% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Tax Rate at 23.53% for Q4 2025, up 925.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 23.98% (up 433.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 23.98%, up 433.0%.
  • Tax Rate for Q4 2025 was 23.53% at Caterpillar, down from 26.73% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Tax Rate for CAT hit a ceiling of 30.68% in Q4 2022 and a floor of 14.28% in Q4 2024.
  • Median Tax Rate over the past 5 years was 21.61% (2023), compared with a mean of 22.09%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Tax Rate: soared 1394bps in 2022 and later plummeted -1261bps in 2023.
  • Caterpillar's Tax Rate stood at 16.74% in 2021, then soared by 83bps to 30.68% in 2022, then plummeted by -41bps to 18.07% in 2023, then decreased by -21bps to 14.28% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 65bps to 23.53% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Tax Rate were 23.53% (Q4 2025), 26.73% (Q3 2025), and 22.92% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.