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Cheniere Energy, Inc.: income tax expense or benefit

Cheniere Energy income tax expense or benefit: $1.49 billion for the year ending 2025-12-31, up 83.5% on the year. 17 values since 2009 from SEC filings.

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At a glance

Cheniere Energy reported income tax expense or benefit of $1.49 billion for the year ending 2025-12-31, up 83.5% from $811.0 million a year earlier. Across the last five reported years it ranged from -$713.0 million (2021-12-31) to $2.52 billion (2023-12-31). That was 7.4% of revenue ($20.0 billion) for the same year.

Computed from the values in the table below, in USD; each links to the filing it came from.

What this measure means

Current and deferred income tax expense or benefit for continuing operations. This accounting expense differs from cash taxes paid.

Exact concept: us-gaap:IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit. Each value covers an annual-duration reporting interval, shown with both start and end dates. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2009-01-01 to 2025-12-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-19.

Selected filing history

Income tax expense or benefit in original reported units, latest-filed observation per period
Period startPeriod endValueUnitFiledSource filing
2025-01-012025-12-311,488,000,000USD2026-02-2610-K · 0000003570-26-000005 SEC
2024-01-012024-12-31811,000,000USD2026-02-2610-K · 0000003570-26-000005 SEC
2023-01-012023-12-312,519,000,000USD2026-02-2610-K · 0000003570-26-000005 SEC
2022-01-012022-12-31459,000,000USD2025-02-2010-K · 0000003570-25-000033 SEC
2021-01-012021-12-31-713,000,000USD2024-02-2210-K · 0000003570-24-000040 SEC
2020-01-012020-12-3143,000,000USD2023-02-2310-K · 0000003570-23-000042 SEC
2019-01-012019-12-31-517,000,000USD2022-02-2410-K · 0000003570-22-000024 SEC
2018-01-012018-12-3127,000,000USD2021-02-2410-K · 0000003570-21-000039 SEC
2017-01-012017-12-313,000,000USD2020-02-2510-K · 0000003570-20-000043 SEC
2016-01-012016-12-312,000,000USD2019-02-2610-K · 0000003570-19-000030 SEC
2015-01-012015-12-310USD2018-02-2110-K · 0000003570-18-000031 SEC
2014-01-012014-12-314,143,000USD2017-02-2410-K · 0000003570-17-000052 SEC
2013-01-012013-12-314,340,000USD2016-02-1910-K · 0000003570-16-000284 SEC
2012-01-012012-12-314,000USD2015-02-2010-K · 0000003570-15-000025 SEC
2011-01-012011-12-31160,000USD2014-02-2110-K · 0000003570-14-000031 SEC
2010-01-012010-12-310USD2013-02-2210-K · 0000003570-13-000036 SEC
2009-01-012009-12-310USD2012-03-2210-K/A · 0000003570-12-000023 SEC

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Entity
Cheniere Energy, Inc. / CIK 0000003570
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import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0000003570.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
    print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))