Fact-check: “The US has the highest corporate tax rate in the wirld”
Verdict: False (95% confidence)
The US federal corporate tax rate is currently 21%, and the combined federal-plus-state rate is roughly 25.6%. Both figures are well below the highest rates in the world — the OECD's 2025 data shows France at 36.1%, Colombia and Malta each at 35%. The US ranks roughly in the middle of the global distribution, not at the top. The claim was closer to accurate before 2017, when the combined US rate of ~38.9% was the highest among OECD nations, but the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act changed that.
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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