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Warner Music (WMG) Tax Rate (2016 - 2026)

Warner Music has reported Tax Rate over the past 16 years, most recently at 28.86% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly Tax Rate rose 189.0% to 28.86% in Q4 2025 from the year-ago period, while the trailing twelve-month figure was 25.12% through Dec 2025, up 410.0% year-over-year, with the annual reading at 24.49% for FY2025, 402.0% up from the prior year.
  • Tax Rate was 28.86% for Q4 2025 at Warner Music, up from 2.83% in the prior quarter.
  • Over five years, Tax Rate peaked at 44.62% in Q1 2025 and troughed at 45.45% in Q2 2025.
  • The 5-year median for Tax Rate is 27.08% (2023), against an average of 22.38%.
  • Year-over-year, Tax Rate surged 5109bps in 2021 and then plummeted -6300bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Tax Rate shows it stood at 28.52% in 2021, then fell by -2bps to 27.91% in 2022, then fell by -3bps to 27.17% in 2023, then decreased by -1bps to 26.97% in 2024, then grew by 7bps to 28.86% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WMG's Tax Rate are 28.86% (Q4 2025), 2.83% (Q3 2025), and 45.45% (Q2 2025).