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Colgate Palmolive (CL) Tax Rate (2016 - 2025)

Colgate Palmolive has reported Tax Rate over the past 17 years, most recently at 104.63% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Tax Rate at 104.63% for Q4 2025, up 8308.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 26.14% (up 327.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 26.09%, up 316.0%.
  • Tax Rate for Q4 2025 was 104.63% at Colgate Palmolive, up from 22.78% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Tax Rate for CL hit a ceiling of 104.63% in Q4 2025 and a floor of 20.16% in Q3 2021.
  • Median Tax Rate over the past 5 years was 23.87% (2021), compared with a mean of 31.22%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Tax Rate: tumbled -4435bps in 2023 and later skyrocketed 8308bps in 2025.
  • Colgate Palmolive's Tax Rate stood at 41.98% in 2021, then skyrocketed by 61bps to 67.42% in 2022, then tumbled by -66bps to 23.08% in 2023, then dropped by -7bps to 21.55% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 386bps to 104.63% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Tax Rate were 104.63% (Q4 2025), 22.78% (Q3 2025), and 23.24% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.