Growth Metrics

International Business Machines (IBM) Tax Rate (2016 - 2025)

International Business Machines has reported Tax Rate over the past 17 years, most recently at 34.64% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Tax Rate at 34.64% for Q4 2025, down 4610.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 2.34% (up 143.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 2.34%, up 142.0%.
  • Tax Rate for Q4 2025 was 34.64% at International Business Machines, down from 28.23% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Tax Rate for IBM hit a ceiling of 60.47% in Q3 2024 and a floor of 65.57% in Q1 2021.
  • Median Tax Rate over the past 5 years was 12.16% (2023), compared with a mean of 4.87%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Tax Rate: tumbled -256761bps in 2021 and later surged 5931bps in 2022.
  • International Business Machines' Tax Rate stood at 14.15% in 2021, then fell by -5bps to 13.41% in 2022, then fell by -6bps to 12.61% in 2023, then dropped by -9bps to 11.46% in 2024, then tumbled by -402bps to 34.64% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Tax Rate were 34.64% (Q4 2025), 28.23% (Q3 2025), and 15.56% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.