Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - Corporate in Japan
Japan: Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - Corporate was 19.19 Percentage of taxable income in 2025. ▬ Flat
Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - Corporate in Japan, 2019–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Percentage of taxable income.
Analysis
The most recent figure for effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate in Japan is 19.19 Percentage of taxable income, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 7 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.
Japan ranks 14th of 50 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - Corporate in Japan, year by year
| Year | Percentage of taxable income | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 19.19 Percentage of taxable income | — |
| 2020 | 19.19 Percentage of taxable income | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 19.19 Percentage of taxable income | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 19.19 Percentage of taxable income | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 19.19 Percentage of taxable income | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 19.19 Percentage of taxable income | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 19.19 Percentage of taxable income | +0.0% |
Japan compared with similar countries
- Japan's 19.19 Percentage of taxable income is above the median for high income countries, which is 12.71 Percentage of taxable income, 1.5× the median. (40 countries reporting)
- Japan's 19.19 Percentage of taxable income is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 13.77 Percentage of taxable income, 1.4× the median. (8 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 19.19 Percentage of taxable income | 19.19 Percentage of taxable income | 19.19 Percentage of taxable income | 1 |
| 2020s | 19.19 Percentage of taxable income | 19.19 Percentage of taxable income | 19.19 Percentage of taxable income | 6 |
Countries ranked near Japan
- 11 Indonesia 20.15 Percentage of taxable income compare
- 12 Brazil 20.01 Percentage of taxable income compare
- 13 United States of America 19.93 Percentage of taxable income compare
- 15 Denmark 19.1 Percentage of taxable income compare
- 16 Switzerland 18.03 Percentage of taxable income compare
- 17 Latvia 18 Percentage of taxable income compare
More economy & growth data for Japan
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 1.03 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 0.4463 Percent per annum (2029)
- Foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$), gaps 217.76 billion BoP, current US$ (2025)
- Foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$), per unit 0.0491 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$), per capita 1,765 BoP, current US$ per person (2025)
- Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), gaps filled 45.81 billion BoP, current US$ (2025)
- Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), annual 142.69 % change on previous year (2025)
- Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), per unit 0.0103 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), per capita 371.3 BoP, current US$ per person (2025)
- Total reserves (includes gold, current US$), annual growth rate 11.44 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate in Japan?
- Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate in Japan was 19.19 Percentage of taxable income in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate recorded in Japan?
- The highest recorded value was 19.19 Percentage of taxable income in 2019.
- What is the lowest effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate recorded in Japan?
- The lowest recorded value was 19.19 Percentage of taxable income in 2019.
- How does Japan rank for effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate?
- Japan ranks 14th out of 50 countries with data for 2025.
- Is effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate rising or falling in Japan?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Japan data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - Corporate tax statistics — Effective average tax rate. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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This table reports synthetic tax policy indicators that capture the effect of expenditure-based R&D tax incentives on firms’ investment costs: The EATR for R&D measures the impact of taxation on R&D investments that earn an economic profit. the user cost of capital for R&D measures the return that a firm needs to realise on an R&D investment before tax to offset all costs and taxes that arise from the investment, making zero economic profit. Further methodological information is available in the explanatory annex.