Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH) Tax Rate (2009 - 2026)

Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH) has 18 years of Tax Rate data on file, last reported at 23.99% in Q1 2026.

• Tax Rate for Q1 2026 came in at 23.99%, down 44.0% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was 36.07% (up 1188.0% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was 36.16%, up 1189.0% from the prior year.
• Tax Rate declined to 23.99% in Q1 2026 per CTSH's latest filing, from 26.77% in the prior quarter.
• Over five years, Tax Rate peaked at 69.11% in Q3 2025 and troughed at 21.12% in Q2 2023.
• A 5-year average of 26.89% and a median of 24.18% in 2022 frame the typical range for Tax Rate.
• The sharpest annual moves came in 2024 and 2025: Tax Rate sank 406 bps in 2024, then jumped 4638 bps in 2025.
• A 5-year view of Tax Rate shows it stood at 27.03% in 2022, then decreased by 4 bps to 26.03% in 2023, then gained by 3 bps to 26.89% in 2024, then dropped by 0 bps to 26.77% in 2025, then retreated by 10 bps to 23.99% in 2026.
• Business Quant data shows CTSH's Tax Rate at 23.99% in Q1 2026, 26.77% in Q4 2025, and 69.11% in Q3 2025.