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El Pollo Loco Holdings (LOCO) Tax Rate (2016 - 2025)

El Pollo Loco Holdings' Tax Rate history spans 12 years, with the latest figure at 29.02% for Q3 2025.

  • For Q3 2025, Tax Rate rose 140.0% year-over-year to 29.02%; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 36.1%, up 1076.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 35.33%, 1120.0% up from the prior year.
  • Tax Rate for Q3 2025 was 29.02% at El Pollo Loco Holdings, down from 29.77% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Tax Rate topped out at 60.37% in Q4 2024 and bottomed at 11.94% in Q4 2023.
  • The 4-year median for Tax Rate is 27.93% (2023), against an average of 29.45%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Tax Rate tumbled -227bps in 2023 before it soared 4843bps in 2024.
  • A 4-year view of Tax Rate shows it stood at 26.64% in 2022, then tumbled by -55bps to 11.94% in 2023, then surged by 406bps to 60.37% in 2024, then plummeted by -52bps to 29.02% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for LOCO's Tax Rate are 29.02% (Q3 2025), 29.77% (Q2 2025), and 29.5% (Q1 2025).