Growth Metrics

PayPal Holdings (PYPL) Tax Rate (2016 - 2026)

PayPal Holdings filings provide 12 years of Tax Rate readings, the most recent being 11.68% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Tax Rate fell 882.0% to 11.68% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 16.83%, a 535.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 16.83%, down 535.0% from a year prior.
  • Tax Rate hit 11.68% in Q4 2025 for PayPal Holdings, down from 18.59% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Tax Rate ranged from a high of 795.92% in Q2 2022 to a low of 25.8% in Q1 2021.
  • Median Tax Rate over the past 5 years was 18.83% (2022), compared with a mean of 53.57%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Tax Rate: soared 78323bps in 2022 and later crashed -77489bps in 2023.
  • PayPal Holdings' Tax Rate stood at 13.46% in 2021, then soared by 227bps to 17.03% in 2022, then increased by 28bps to 21.81% in 2023, then decreased by -6bps to 20.5% in 2024, then tumbled by -43bps to 11.68% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Tax Rate were 11.68% (Q4 2025), 18.59% (Q3 2025), and 17.53% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.