Microsoft (MSFT) Tax Rate (2009 - 2026)

Microsoft has disclosed Tax Rate across 18 years of filings, most recently posting 19.22% for Q1 2026.

• Tax Rate for Q1 2026 came in at 19.22%, up 152.0% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was 18.96% (down 1698.0% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was 17.63%, down 2115.0% from the prior year.
• Tax Rate came in at 19.22% for Q1 2026 at Microsoft, down from 20.29% in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, Tax Rate ranged from a high of 20.29% in Q4 2025 to a low of 61.39% in Q2 2022.
• The 5-year median for Tax Rate is 17.91% (2024), against an average of 5.86%.
• Across the five-year window, Tax Rate sank 4287 bps in 2022 and soared 7289 bps in 2025, its largest moves.
• Microsoft's Tax Rate stood at 19.24% in 2022, then retreated by 9 bps to 17.55% in 2023, then grew by 2 bps to 17.9% in 2024, then grew by 13 bps to 20.29% in 2025, then retreated by 5 bps to 19.22% in 2026.
• The last three Tax Rate figures came in at 19.22% (Q1 2026), 20.29% (Q4 2025), and 19.11% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.