Fact-check: “The US has the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world”
Verdict: False (85% confidence)
The US federal statutory corporate tax rate is 21%, set by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Before that law, the US rate of 35% was among the highest in the OECD — but since 2018, multiple authoritative sources including PwC's global CIT survey and Tax Foundation OECD comparisons place the US as middle-of-the-pack among developed nations, not the highest. Several OECD members have statutory rates at or above 21%, and the US is not ranked first in any current OECD statutory-rate comparison found…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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