CorpTaxRates · 212 countries
CorpTaxRates tracks corporate tax rates by country for 212 jurisdictions: headline rates, rate type, small-business rates. Lowest corporate tax countries to the highest, refreshed every year for 2026. No more digging through tax authority PDFs. I also connect founders with vetted cross-border tax advisors.
Sample preview of the corporate tax rate database.
●Direct answers
The questions everyone asks, answered straight.
A small group of jurisdictions levy no corporate income tax at all. Gulf states and offshore financial centers lead the list, though most still require some substance or reporting. Our corporate tax rates by country table lists each zero-tax jurisdiction with rate-type and year-effective notes.
The statutory rate is the headline rate in the tax code; the effective rate is what companies actually pay. Deductions, credits and incentives push the real number below the headline. We track statutory rates with rate-type notes, which is honestly the only fair way to compare jurisdictions.
Low rates cluster in the Gulf, parts of the EU and select Asian hubs. These are the countries with the lowest corporate tax: Hungary’s 9% is the EU’s lowest statutory rate, and Singapore and Hong Kong sit far below high-rate economies. Sort every jurisdiction by region and the pattern jumps out.
●Features
Two hundred tax authorities, two hundred PDFs. We put every rate that matters side by side instead.
All 212 jurisdictions in one sortable table. Headline rate, rate type, small-business rate. Search it, sort it, done.
Zero-tax havens at one end, the highest corporate tax countries in the world at the other. Ranked both ways, because both ends matter.
Rates change every year, and stale data is worse than no data. We refresh rate changes and year-effective notes annually, with 2026 current now.
How the US corporate tax rate stacks up against Europe, Asia Pacific, and the average worldwide corporate tax rate. Spoiler: context changes everything.
●The dataset
What we collected, field by field. No black boxes, no scraped junk.
| Region | Jurisdictions | Key fields |
|---|---|---|
| Europe | 45+ | Headline rate, rate type, small-business rates |
| Asia Pacific | 45+ | Headline rate, rate type, year-effective notes |
| Americas | 35+ | Headline rate, small-business rates |
| Africa & Middle East | 60+ | Headline rate, rate type |
| Offshore & territories | 25+ | Rate type, year-effective notes |
| Field | What it means | Sample value |
|---|---|---|
| Headline corporate tax rate | The statutory rate in the tax code | 25% |
| Rate type | How the rate is applied | flat |
| Small-business rate | Reduced rate for qualifying SMEs | varies by country |
| Year effective | Tax year the published rate applies to | 2026 |
●Preview
A peek under the hood. This is the data I work from.
●Topic hub
One keyword would not do it justice. The whole corporate tax topic, mapped:
Headline rates across Europe, Asia Pacific, the Americas and the Middle East, region by region.
Which countries levy no corporate income tax, and what the fine print actually says.
Why the headline rate and the rate companies really pay are two different numbers.
The SME discounts, country by country.
Where the US lands against Europe and the global average.
Year-effective notes and the 2026 refresh, across all 212.
Headline rates, small-business rates, yearly changes. One table.
Corporate income tax runs from zero to well past 30%, and that one number shapes where companies incorporate, expand and park profits. CorpTaxRates puts every country’s rate in a single sortable table: a full corporate tax rate comparison you can scan in seconds.
Everyone chases the lowest corporate tax countries, from zero-tax jurisdictions to low-rate EU members. But the highest corporate tax countries in the world matter just as much when you’re planning expansion. We track both ends of the ranking, with rate type and year-effective notes, plus corporate tax rates in Europe and Asia Pacific.
Rates move every year, and the US corporate tax rate vs other countries looks different depending on whether you compare statutory or effective numbers. We update yearly with global corporate tax rates for 2026, small-business rates, and the average worldwide corporate tax rate for context. Get an intro to put this data to work for you.
●FAQ
Answers about corporate tax rates by country
●References
SBA: Business-structure and tax guidance from the US Small Business Administration.
IRS: The official source for US federal corporate tax rates, forms and filing.
GOV.UK: UK company formation and corporation tax, straight from the source.
European Union: Business and taxation info across EU member states.
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