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Microsoft (MSFT) Tax Rate (2016 - 2025)

Microsoft's Tax Rate history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 19.11% for Q3 2025.

  • For Q3 2025, Tax Rate rose 60.0% year-over-year to 19.11%; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 17.47%, down 2397.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 43.77%, 2479.0% up from the prior year.
  • Tax Rate for Q3 2025 was 19.11% at Microsoft, up from 17.9% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Tax Rate topped out at 31.4% in Q4 2021 and bottomed at 61.39% in Q2 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Tax Rate is 17.47% (2024), against an average of 7.64%.
  • The largest YoY upside for Tax Rate was 3470bps in 2022 against a maximum downside of -7687bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of Tax Rate shows it stood at 31.4% in 2021, then crashed by -40bps to 18.99% in 2022, then decreased by -9bps to 17.34% in 2023, then increased by 3bps to 17.9% in 2024, then grew by 7bps to 19.11% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for MSFT's Tax Rate are 19.11% (Q3 2025), 17.9% (Q4 2024), and 18.51% (Q3 2024).