Price history · Tax preparation
Lacerte price history: reported prices since 2016
How Lacerte’s US list prices have moved, with the source and date for each figure.
Lacerte is Intuit’s professional tax-preparation software for accounting firms, licensed annually.
This page collects the dated list prices we could document for Lacerte, each with the source it came from. StackWatch has also recorded Lacerte’s own pricing page on 30 days since September 12, 2026.
Reported prices by source
Tax-software prices are reported by different publishers, each with its own definition of a package (returns included, states, list price, promotion or MSRP). To avoid mixing definitions, each table below comes from one source and compares only its own editions. Do not subtract a figure in one table from a figure in another.
Vendor page
The vendor’s own pricing page.
| Package | Oct 5, 2026 source | First to last |
|---|---|---|
| Pay-per-return licence (annual fee) per year (list; pay-per-return fees extra) | $813 | — |
Fit Small Business
Fit Small Business’s product reviews (prices for 2024 returns, page updated in early 2025).
| Package | Feb 13, 2025 source | First to last |
|---|---|---|
| Pay-per-return licence (annual fee) per year (annual license fee; per-return fees extra) | $860 | — |
The CPA Journal survey
The CPA Journal’s annual survey of tax-software prices, as of the month shown. The survey does not say whether a price is a list price or a promotion.
| Package | Oct 2019 source | Nov 2020 source | Oct 2021 source | Oct 2022 source | First to last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay-per-return licence (annual fee) per year (pay-per-return license; per-return fee extra) | $389 | $426 | $450 | $429 | +$40 (+10%) over 3 years |
Intuit tax-year pricing sheets
Intuit’s own tax-year pricing sheets. They carry no publication date, so columns are labelled by tax year.
| Package | Tax year 2016 source | Tax year 2017 source | Tax year 2018 source | First to last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lacerte 200 Federal 1040 per year (tax-year license, fixed-price package) | $3,765 | $3,952 | $4,149 | +$384 (+10%) over 2 years |
| Lacerte Individual Federal Unlimited per year (tax-year license, fixed-price package) | $4,771 | $5,009 | $5,259 | +$488 (+10%) over 2 years |
| Pay-per-return licence (annual fee) per user per year (tax-year Fast Path license; per-return REP fees billed on top) | $406 | — | — | — |
Plan and policy changes
Changes that matter for what you pay but do not come with a single price figure.
| When | Scope | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tax year 2014 | Fast Path | From tax year 2014, Intuit shows the required service components of a Lacerte purchase as a standalone invoice line called Fast Path. Pay-per-return customers need a Fast Path licence, so for them the Fast Path fee is the annual licence fee. | Intuit help center vendor |
| Aug 2017 (as reported) | Lacerte 200, Lacerte Unlimited | CPA Practice Advisor wrote in August 2017, and The CPA Journal’s later surveys repeat, that these two packages were priced by a customized quote with no public price. Intuit’s own tax-year 2016 to 2018 pricing sheets, in the table above, still list fixed prices for them, so the sources differ and StackWatch does not know when public prices stopped. Intuit’s current page offers a custom plan with no prices shown. | CPA Practice Advisor trade press |
| Current page | Purchase routes | Intuit’s current Lacerte page offers two routes: pay-per-return (an annual licence for a single user) and a custom plan for bundles or unlimited returns, priced by consultation. | Intuit pricing page vendor |
| Each November | Pay-per-return fees | Intuit’s help article says new per-return (REP) fees take effect around November 5 of each tax year. | Intuit help center vendor |
| Current FAQ | Three-year pricing | Intuit’s FAQ says that for new customers the first-year price is based on the current-year price of the selected package and that renewal increases over the next two years will not exceed the percentage set in the contract. The FAQ does not state the percentage. | Intuit FAQ vendor |
How to read this page
Dates are the vendor’s effective date where a source states one. “Announced” means the date of the announcement and “as reported” means the date of the article when no effective date is stated. Prices are US list prices in US dollars, excluding promotions, taxes and add-ons. “First-party” rows are StackWatch’s own reads of the vendor’s page.
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What does Lacerte cost today?
As of October 11, 2026, the Lacerte pricing page lists Pay-per-return (Fast Path) $813 a year; Create a custom plan is quote only. See Lacerte pricing for what each price covers.
Has Lacerte raised its prices?
We have not found a dated price change for Lacerte. The figures on this page are prices reported by the sources shown, and the vendor’s own page was last checked on October 11, 2026.
Where do these figures come from?
Every row names its source and links to it: the vendor’s own pages and announcements, trade press, and review sites, plus StackWatch’s own daily reads of the vendor’s pricing page. Each figure was re-checked against its source by an independent second pass. How we verify prices