Price history · Tax preparation
ProSeries price history: reported prices since 2016
How ProSeries’s US list prices have moved, with the source and date for each figure.
ProSeries is Intuit’s professional tax-preparation software for accounting firms, licensed annually (per tax year) in pay-per-return and unlimited-bundle options.
This page collects the dated list prices we could document for ProSeries, each with the source it came from. StackWatch has also recorded ProSeries’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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1040 Essentials per year (struck-through price; unlimited 1040 and state returns, business returns per return, per page text) | $4,007 | — |
| Pay-per-return licence (annual fee) per year (annual license, one user; per-return fees extra) | $539 | — |
| ProSeries Basic 1040 per year (starting-at price) | $729 | — |
| ProSeries Essentials per year (struck-through price; bundle of 200 or 400 individual and business returns per page text) | $5,602 | — |
Fit Small Business
Fit Small Business’s product reviews (prices for 2024 returns, page updated in early 2025).
| Package | Feb 14, 2025 source | First to last |
|---|---|---|
| 1040 Complete per year (MSRP; unlimited individual returns per article) | $3,191 | — |
| Basic 20 per year (MSRP; Basic 20 package, 20 returns) | $1,052 | — |
| Pay-per-return licence (annual fee) per year (MSRP; pay-per-return license; per-return fees extra) | $661 | — |
CPA Practice Advisor
CPA Practice Advisor’s product reviews.
| Package | Jun 11, 2019 source | First to last |
|---|---|---|
| Choice 200 per year (article wording: firms processing fewer than 200 returns annually) | $1,549 | — |
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 | Sep 2018 source | Oct 2019 source | Nov 2020 source | Oct 2021 source | Oct 2022 source | First to last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic 20 per year (Basic 20 package, 1 state; source also lists $37/return) | $419 | $429 | $450 | $499 | $519 | +$100 (+24%) over 4 years |
| 1040 Complete per year (unlimited 1040 returns for all states) | — | $1,899 | $1,900 | $1,949 | $2,079 | +$180 (+9.5%) over 3 years |
| Pay-per-return licence (annual fee) per year (pay-per-return license; $41 per return extra) | — | $329 | — | $369 | $379 | +$50 (+15%) 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 | First to last |
|---|---|---|
| 1040 Complete per year (tax-year license) | $1,699 | — |
| Basic 50 per year (tax-year license) | $418 | — |
| Basic Unlimited + 4 States per year (tax-year license) | $848 | — |
| Pay-per-return licence (annual fee) per year (Fast Path license required to use ProSeries; per-return fees extra) | $345 | — |
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 ProSeries 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 community article vendor |
| Current page | Package names | Intuit’s current ProSeries page lists Professional Pay-per-return, ProSeries Basic 1040, 1040 Essentials, ProSeries Essentials and ProSeries Advanced (call for pricing). Earlier sources use names such as Basic 20, Basic 50, Basic Unlimited, 1040 Complete and Choice 200. We found no source stating how the old and new names map to each other, so we keep them separate. | Intuit pricing page 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 ProSeries cost today?
As of October 11, 2026, the ProSeries pricing page lists Pay-per-return from $539 a year; ProSeries Basic from $729 a year; 1040 Essentials from $4,007 a year; ProSeries Essentials $5,602 a year; ProSeries Advanced is quote only. See ProSeries pricing for what each price covers.
Has ProSeries raised its prices?
We have not found a dated price change for ProSeries. 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