Waste Management (WM) Tax Rate (2009 - 2026)

Waste Management (WM) posted Tax Rate of 23.24% for Q2 2026, up 23.27% sequentially from 18.86% in Q1 2026, and up 158.0% YoY from 9.01% in Q2 2025.

Waste Management (WM) Tax Rate (2009 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

Waste Management has reported Tax Rate for 18 years, with the latest figure at 23.24% in Q2 2026.

Quarterly Tax Rate rose 158.0% year-over-year to 23.24% in Q2 2026, while the trailing twelve-month figure through Jun 2026 was 21.35% (up 77.0% YoY) and the FY2025 annual result came in at 21.02%, up 2.0% from the prior year.
Tax Rate advanced to 23.24% in Q2 2026 per WM's latest filing, from 18.86% in the prior quarter.
Over five years, Tax Rate peaked at 27.17% in Q4 2023 and troughed at 16.43% in Q4 2024.
A 5-year average of 22.25% and a median of 23.03% in 2022 frame the typical range for Tax Rate.
The sharpest annual moves came in 2022 and 2023: Tax Rate sank 1094 bps in 2022, then soared 493 bps in 2023.
Over 5 years, Tax Rate stood at 22.24% in 2022, then gained by 22 bps to 27.17% in 2023, then tumbled by 40 bps to 16.43% in 2024, then rose by 28 bps to 20.96% in 2025, then climbed by 11 bps to 23.24% in 2026.
According to Business Quant data, Tax Rate over the past three periods registered 23.24%, 18.86%, and 20.96% for Q2 2026, Q1 2026, and Q4 2025 respectively.

#	Company	Market Cap	Enterprise Value	Gross Profit (Qtr)	Tax Rate (Qtr)
1	Waste Management	89.99 Bn	89.43 Bn	2.73 Bn	23.24%
2	Republic Services	67.67 Bn	67.56 Bn	1.87 Bn	19.03%
3	Waste Connections	42.91 Bn	42.81 Bn	1.08 Bn	22.76%
4	Clean Harbors	16.73 Bn	16.21 Bn	608.78 Mn	26.56%
5	GFL Environmental	14.90 Bn	14.71 Bn	278.90 Mn	-6.01%
6	Casella Waste Systems	5.91 Bn	5.88 Bn	178.80 Mn	-12.04%
7	Sino Green Land	972.56 Mn	972.48 Mn	-78,936.00	-
8	Onterris	563.23 Mn	549.53 Mn	82.26 Mn	20.21%
9	Perma Fix Environmental Services	340.45 Mn	306.50 Mn	-2.50 Mn	-
10	American Battery Technology	335.57 Mn	296.29 Mn	737,749.00	-

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