Fact-check: “The US has the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world”
Verdict: Misleading (82% confidence)
This claim was accurate under a specific definition — the combined federal plus state/local statutory rate — but only before the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and it is false under the more common federal-only comparison both then and now. Before 2017, the US federal rate of 35% combined with average state rates produced a combined rate of roughly 39%, which was the highest among OECD nations. After the 2017 TCJA cut the federal rate to 21%, the Tax Foundation found the US moved 'from the fourth…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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