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Yum Brands (YUM) Tax Rate (2016 - 2025)

Yum Brands' Tax Rate history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 11.86% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Tax Rate fell 802.0% year-over-year to 11.86%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 24.9%, up 311.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 24.94%, 315.0% up from the prior year.
  • Tax Rate reached 11.86% in Q4 2025 per YUM's latest filing, down from 26.62% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Tax Rate ranged from a high of 42.56% in Q2 2022 to a low of 17.07% in Q3 2021.
  • Average Tax Rate over 5 years is 17.93%, with a median of 19.03% recorded in 2021.
  • Peak YoY movement for Tax Rate: skyrocketed 4302bps in 2022, then crashed -3001bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Tax Rate shows it stood at 18.92% in 2021, then fell by -7bps to 17.56% in 2022, then tumbled by -63bps to 6.47% in 2023, then surged by 208bps to 19.89% in 2024, then crashed by -40bps to 11.86% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for YUM's Tax Rate are 11.86% (Q4 2025), 26.62% (Q3 2025), and 25.05% (Q2 2025).