Fact-check: “The US has the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
This claim was true before 2018 but is false today. The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act cut the U.S. federal corporate rate from 35% to 21%, dropping the combined federal-state rate to roughly 25-25.6% — below Germany (~30%), Japan (~30%), France (~36%), and Canada (~27%), and right around the OECD average. OECD Corporate Tax Statistics 2025 shows France (36.1%), Colombia (35%), and Malta (35%) at the top; the U.S. is not close to that list. Supporting evidence relied on combined federal-state rates…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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