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Moodys (MCO) Tax Rate (2016 - 2025)

Moodys (MCO) has disclosed Tax Rate for 17 consecutive years, with 11.06% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Tax Rate fell 1370.0% to 11.06% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 21.34%, a 237.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 21.34%, down 237.0% from a year prior.
  • Tax Rate was 11.06% for Q4 2025 at Moodys, down from 25.37% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Tax Rate ranged from a high of 26.19% in Q2 2022 to a low of 0.99% in Q1 2023.
  • A 5-year average of 20.82% and a median of 23.32% in 2023 define the central range for Tax Rate.
  • Peak YoY movement for Tax Rate: crashed -1724bps in 2023, then surged 2228bps in 2024.
  • Moodys' Tax Rate stood at 17.25% in 2021, then surged by 44bps to 24.77% in 2022, then decreased by -1bps to 24.44% in 2023, then increased by 1bps to 24.76% in 2024, then crashed by -55bps to 11.06% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for MCO's Tax Rate are 11.06% (Q4 2025), 25.37% (Q3 2025), and 25.0% (Q2 2025).