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Mcdonalds (MCD) Tax Rate (2016 - 2025)

Mcdonalds' Tax Rate history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 21.55% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Tax Rate rose 102.0% year-over-year to 21.55%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 21.42%, up 92.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 21.42%, 92.0% up from the prior year.
  • Tax Rate reached 21.55% in Q4 2025 per MCD's latest filing, down from 22.75% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Tax Rate ranged from a high of 28.34% in Q1 2022 to a low of 6.6% in Q2 2021.
  • Average Tax Rate over 5 years is 20.01%, with a median of 20.61% recorded in 2024.
  • Peak YoY movement for Tax Rate: tumbled -1882bps in 2021, then skyrocketed 910bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of Tax Rate shows it stood at 22.25% in 2021, then dropped by -16bps to 18.62% in 2022, then rose by 2bps to 18.93% in 2023, then grew by 8bps to 20.53% in 2024, then rose by 5bps to 21.55% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for MCD's Tax Rate are 21.55% (Q4 2025), 22.75% (Q3 2025), and 21.25% (Q2 2025).