Unfortunately, as someone else had shared in a link, all years 2019 to present are licensed and requires giving out our customer number. We could certainly do that and pretend like it is 2018 instead. Our EA is currently considering that as a backup plan. We were hoping other small tax firms have performed a similar mock tax return test with candidates and could share their experience. 

I did see there is a 2024 product that new customers can use to try out the ProSeries product before purchasing it. It is intended for selling the product and the candidate will end with calls from a sales rep....but that might be an option too 🙂