Growth Metrics

Packaging Corp Of America (PKG) Tax Rate (2016 - 2026)

Packaging Corp Of America has reported Tax Rate over the past 17 years, most recently at 24.31% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly Tax Rate rose 1588.0% to 24.31% in Q4 2025 from the year-ago period, while the trailing twelve-month figure was 24.69% through Dec 2025, up 463.0% year-over-year, with the annual reading at 24.68% for FY2025, 463.0% up from the prior year.
  • Tax Rate was 24.31% for Q4 2025 at Packaging Corp Of America, down from 25.66% in the prior quarter.
  • Over five years, Tax Rate peaked at 25.66% in Q3 2025 and troughed at 24.31% in Q2 2023.
  • The 5-year median for Tax Rate is 24.49% (2021), against an average of 20.1%.
  • Year-over-year, Tax Rate crashed -4905bps in 2023 and then surged 4973bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Tax Rate shows it stood at 1.6% in 2021, then soared by 1363bps to 23.47% in 2022, then rose by 2bps to 23.86% in 2023, then plummeted by -65bps to 8.44% in 2024, then surged by 188bps to 24.31% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for PKG's Tax Rate are 24.31% (Q4 2025), 25.66% (Q3 2025), and 24.67% (Q2 2025).