Growth Metrics

Waste Management (WM) Tax Rate (2016 - 2025)

Waste Management (WM) has disclosed Tax Rate for 17 consecutive years, with 20.64% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly Tax Rate rose 2452.0% to 20.64% in Q4 2025 from the year-ago period, while the trailing twelve-month figure was 20.93% through Dec 2025, up 321.0% year-over-year, with the annual reading at 20.93% for FY2025, 321.0% up from the prior year.
  • Tax Rate hit 20.64% in Q4 2025 for Waste Management, down from 22.19% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Tax Rate ranged from a high of 34.93% in Q4 2023 to a low of 8.67% in Q4 2021.
  • Historically, Tax Rate has averaged 20.62% across 5 years, with a median of 23.21% in 2021.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Tax Rate: soared 3704bps in 2022 and later plummeted -3881bps in 2024.
  • Year by year, Tax Rate stood at 8.67% in 2021, then soared by 427bps to 28.37% in 2022, then increased by 23bps to 34.93% in 2023, then crashed by -111bps to 3.88% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 632bps to 20.64% in 2025.
  • Business Quant data shows Tax Rate for WM at 20.64% in Q4 2025, 22.19% in Q3 2025, and 21.66% in Q2 2025.