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Caterpillar (CAT) Tax Rate (2016 - 2025)

Caterpillar (CAT) has 17 years of Tax Rate data on record, last reported at 23.53% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Tax Rate rose 925.0% year-over-year to 23.53%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 23.98%, up 433.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 23.98%, 433.0% up from the prior year.
  • Tax Rate reached 23.53% in Q4 2025 per CAT's latest filing, down from 26.73% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Tax Rate topped out at 30.68% in Q4 2022 and bottomed at 14.28% in Q4 2024.
  • Average Tax Rate over 5 years is 22.09%, with a median of 21.61% recorded in 2023.
  • Peak YoY movement for Tax Rate: skyrocketed 1394bps in 2022, then tumbled -1261bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Tax Rate shows it stood at 16.74% in 2021, then surged by 83bps to 30.68% in 2022, then crashed by -41bps to 18.07% in 2023, then dropped by -21bps to 14.28% in 2024, then soared by 65bps to 23.53% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Tax Rate were 23.53% in Q4 2025, 26.73% in Q3 2025, and 22.92% in Q2 2025.