Why $370bn tech group Palantir pays 1.4 percent tax rate: Report

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Aug 06, 2026 · 1652 words · By Caolán Magee

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Why $370bn tech group Palantir pays 1.4 percent tax rate: Report The AI group’s technology is used by Israeli military and Trump administration’s ICE.

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What happened

Why $370bn tech group Palantir pays 1.4 percent tax rate: Report The AI group’s technology is used by Israeli military and Trump administration’s ICE.

Why it matters

Palantir Technologies, the United States data analytics and artificial intelligence company which has contracts with the country’s military and intelligence apparatus, has “engineered its corporate structure” to pay no US federal corporate income tax,…

Common ground

The study by the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR) comes as Palantir reports soaring revenues, driven partly by government contracts, while it faces continued criticism for providing technology to the Israeli military…

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Appeal to Anger: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

Follow-up questions

What new context would change how readers understand this Human Rights and Surveillance story?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Palantir paid less than $21.7m in income taxes globally in 2025, net of refunds, despite recording pretax profits of $1.66bn?
How does this story connect Human Rights and Surveillance with Government Procurement Ethics over the next few days?

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Name Calling / Labeling 80% confidence

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 22 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Palantir paid less than $21.7m in income taxes globally in 2025, net of refunds, despite recording pretax profits of $1.66bn.”

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Claim 2: “its global effective tax rate was just 1.4 percent in 2025.”

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Multiple independent web sources report that Palantir's global effective tax rate was 1.4%.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alexander Caedmon Karp (born October 2, 1967) is an American billionaire businessman and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies. Karp earned his J.D. de…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karp

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Louis Mosley (born c. February 1983) is a British businessman and politician who is currently CEO of Palantir UK. A member of the Mosley family, Mosley is also a former Conservative Party councillor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Mosley

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Palantir Technologies Inc. () is an American publicly traded company that develops data integration and analytics software. Palantir is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and was founded in 2003 by Pete…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir

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Claim 3: “generating $427m in revenue there [UK] in 2025.”

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Claim 4: “More than half of Palantir’s revenue now comes from government customers”

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Claim 5: “CICTAR says Palantir has built up more than $3.5bn in deferred tax assets”

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Claim 6: “Palantir’s market value was around $370bn during early trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Thursday”

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No evidence was provided in the search results to confirm the market capitalization of $370 billion on the specific Thursday mentioned.

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Claim 7: “Palantir Technologies... has “engineered its corporate structure” to pay no US federal corporate income tax”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general company descriptions and Wikipedia entries about the founders. No evidence was provided that specifically confirms or denies the claim regarding the engineering of corporate structure to pay no US federal corporate income tax.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tyler Technologies, Inc. is an American technology company based in Plano, Texas, that provides proprietary software to the U.S. public sector. Tyler Technologies has offices in 17 states and one in T…
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Claim 8: “Palantir reported second-quarter revenue of $1.94bn, up 93 percent from a year earlier.”

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The claim is independently reported by Al Jazeera and multiple web search results, confirming the second-quarter revenue of $1.94 billion and the 93% year-over-year increase.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A palantír ([paˈlanˌtiːr]; in-universe pl. palantíri) is one of several indestructible crystal balls from J. R. R. Tolkien's epic-fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. The word comes from Quenya palan …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantír

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Claim 9: “In 2025, 26 percent of Palantir’s revenue was generated outside the US, but only 4 percent of its pretax profit was recorded overseas.”

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Claim 10: “a major strategic partnership was signed between Palantir and the Israeli Ministry of Defence in [January] 2024 for data analytics and AI.”

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Claim 11: “Palantir has also benefitted from tax changes introduced under US President Donald Trump, including the reduction of the federal corporate rate from 35 percent to 21 percent in 2017.”

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Multiple independent sources confirm that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 reduced the US federal corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%.

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web search NEUTRAL — The corporate tax rate in the United States currently stands at 21 percent , a change that was implemented by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. This current corporate tax rate represents a significan…
https://smallbiztrends.com/current-tax-rate-for-corporation/

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web search NEUTRAL — The corporate income tax rate in the United States is a flat 21% federal rate, applied to all taxable income earned by a C corporation regardless of income level, as established by the Tax Cuts and Jo…
https://www.fortune.app/accounting/corporate-tax

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web search NEUTRAL — Under President Trump, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 reduced the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, aligning the U.S. more closely with other OECD countries and boosting competitiveness.
https://mxmnews.com/article/3c25c439-0b1f-4cda-b13b-d750418c…

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Claim 12: “More than 60 people have died in ICE custody or been shot and killed during federal immigration enforcement operations since Donald Trump returned to office”

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No evidence was provided in the search results regarding deaths in ICE custody or enforcement operations since Donald Trump's return to office.

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Claim 13: “The company was founded in 2003 by a group that included chief executive Alex Karp and billionaire technology investor Peter Thiel.”

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Wikipedia confirms Palantir was founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and others (Stephen Cohen, Joe Lonsdale).

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Claim 14: “securing more than 670 million pounds ($900m) in government contracts in recent years [in the UK].”

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Multiple independent web sources confirm that Palantir secured over £670 million in UK government contracts, specifically mentioning the NHS and Ministry of Defence deals.

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Claim 15: “In the UK, Palantir recorded a corporate tax charge of about two million pounds ($2.7m) in 2024”

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Two independent web sources confirm the UK corporate tax charge of approximately £2 million (or £2.1 million) in 2024.

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Claim 16: “a 240 million-pound ($323m) Ministry of Defence contract awarded without a competitive tender.”

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Claim 17: “Outside the US, its largest disclosed cash tax payments were $5.8m in South Korea and $4.8m in Japan. It paid $2.8m in France, $1.7m in Germany and a combined $4.1m across all its other foreign markets.”

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Claim 18: “a 330 million-pound ($444m) agreement to build the National Health Service (NHS) Federated Data Platform”

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Claim 19: “Palantir paid no US federal corporate income tax in 2025 and just $2.5m in state income taxes”

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Claim 20: “Palantir initially received backing from In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit venture capital fund created in 1999 by the CIA”

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While the provided evidence mentions the company's founding and general nature, none of the provided snippets specifically mention In-Q-Tel or the CIA funding.

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web search NEUTRAL — Palantir CEO Alex Karp says 'something has gone completely wrong' with how AI is sold Palantir CEO Alex Karp joins CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to discuss the new Nvidia partnership, frontier AI models, and mo…
https://www.palantir.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — Palantir Technologies Inc. (/ ˈpælənˌtɪər /) [3] is an American publicly traded company that develops data integration and analytics software. [4] Palantir is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and was …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir

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web search NEUTRAL — Tar-Palantir was the name of the 24th ruler of Númenor, so named for being 'far-sighted'. Tolkien 1977 The Silmarillion, "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age" Tolkien 1980 Unfinished Tales, part 4…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantír

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Claim 21: “Palantir has recruited former members of Unit 8200, the Israeli military’s elite cyberintelligence division.”

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Claim 22: “The company opened offices in Israel in 2015.”

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