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

Yum Brands filings provide 17 years of Tax Rate readings, the most recent being 11.86% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Tax Rate fell 802.0% to 11.86% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 24.9%, a 311.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 24.94%, up 315.0% from a year prior.
  • Tax Rate hit 11.86% in Q4 2025 for Yum Brands, 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.
  • Median Tax Rate over the past 5 years was 19.03% (2021), compared with a mean of 17.93%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Tax Rate: surged 4302bps in 2022 and later plummeted -3001bps in 2023.
  • Yum Brands' Tax Rate 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.
  • The last three reported values for Tax Rate were 11.86% (Q4 2025), 26.62% (Q3 2025), and 25.05% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.