Paychex (PAYX) Tax Provisions (2009 - 2026)

Paychex has disclosed Tax Provisions across 18 years of filings, most recently posting $178.7 million for Q1 2026.

• Tax Provisions for Q1 2026 came in at $178.7 million, up 7.33% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Feb 2026 was $509.3 million (down 5.4% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was $518.6 million, down 1.71% from the prior year.
• Tax Provisions came in at $178.7 million for Q1 2026 at Paychex, up from $124.8 million in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, Tax Provisions ranged from a high of $178.7 million in Q1 2026 to a low of $90.1 million in Q2 2022.
• The 5-year median for Tax Provisions is $124.8 million (2025), against an average of $127.5 million.
• Across the five-year window, Tax Provisions rose 25.64% in 2023 and fell 17.69% in 2025, its largest moves.
• Paychex's Tax Provisions stood at $114.9 million in 2022, then grew by 8.96% to $125.2 million in 2023, then grew by 4.07% to $130.3 million in 2024, then slipped by 4.22% to $124.8 million in 2025, then jumped by 43.19% to $178.7 million in 2026.
• The last three Tax Provisions figures came in at $178.7 million (Q1 2026), $124.8 million (Q4 2025), and $113.7 million (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.