Microsoft (MSFT) Tax Provisions (2009 - 2026)

Microsoft's (MSFT) quarterly Tax Provisions came in at $7.6 billion in Q1 2026, up 36.18% year-on-year from $5.6 billion in Q1 2025, and down 22.74% quarter-over-quarter from $9.8 billion in Q4 2025.

Microsoft (MSFT) Tax Provisions (2009 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

Microsoft has disclosed Tax Provisions across 18 years of filings, most recently posting $7.6 billion for Q1 2026.

  • Tax Provisions for Q1 2026 came in at $7.6 billion, up 36.18% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was $29.3 billion (up 11.09% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was $21.8 billion, down 10.64% from the prior year.
  • Tax Provisions came in at $7.6 billion for Q1 2026 at Microsoft, down from $9.8 billion in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Tax Provisions ranged from a high of $10.0 billion in Q2 2024 to a low of $3.5 billion in Q1 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Tax Provisions is $5.3 billion (2024), against an average of $5.9 billion.
  • Across the five-year window, Tax Provisions soared 658.39% in 2022 and tumbled 50.83% in 2023, its largest moves.
  • Microsoft's Tax Provisions stood at $3.9 billion in 2022, then advanced by 18.96% to $4.7 billion in 2023, then climbed by 12.91% to $5.3 billion in 2024, then jumped by 86.19% to $9.8 billion in 2025, then slipped by 22.74% to $7.6 billion in 2026.
  • The last three Tax Provisions figures came in at $7.6 billion (Q1 2026), $9.8 billion (Q4 2025), and $6.6 billion (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) Taxes (Qtr)
1 Microsoft 2,903.35 Bn 2,825.07 Bn 56.06 Bn 7.56 Bn
2 Alarum Technologies 1,127.45 Bn 1,113.30 Bn 7.23 Mn 184,000.00
3 Oracle 528.84 Bn 490.27 Bn 15.14 Bn 695.00 Mn
4 Palantir Technologies 306.36 Bn 298.44 Bn 1.42 Bn 12.20 Mn
5 Palo Alto Networks 194.33 Bn 189.79 Bn 1.91 Bn 117.00 Mn
6 CrowdStrike Holdings 171.19 Bn 168.13 Bn 993.68 Mn -3.60 Mn
7 Fortinet 108.13 Bn 104.84 Bn 1.49 Bn 122.00 Mn
8 Synopsys 86.21 Bn 86.09 Bn 1.77 Bn 14.34 Mn
9 Cloudflare 80.35 Bn 79.41 Bn 455.60 Mn 1.50 Mn
10 CoreWeave 53.50 Bn 51.24 Bn 2.01 Bn 84.00 Mn

Historic Data

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Mar 31, 2026 7.56 Bn
Dec 31, 2025 9.79 Bn
Sep 30, 2025 6.55 Bn
Jun 30, 2025 5.38 Bn
Mar 31, 2025 5.55 Bn
Dec 31, 2024 5.26 Bn
Sep 30, 2024 5.60 Bn
Jun 30, 2024 9.95 Bn
Mar 31, 2024 4.79 Bn
Dec 31, 2023 4.66 Bn
Sep 30, 2023 4.99 Bn
Jun 30, 2023 4.65 Bn
Mar 31, 2023 4.37 Bn
Dec 31, 2022 3.91 Bn
Sep 30, 2022 4.02 Bn
Jun 30, 2022 9.45 Bn
Mar 31, 2022 3.46 Bn
Dec 31, 2021 3.75 Bn
Sep 30, 2021 -3.30 Bn
Jun 30, 2021 3.10 Bn