Proseries 2020 Billing

Yep, looks like somewhere around 5% for me too.   

So the actual inflation rate is closer to 2%.  If they raised it 2% you wouldn't complain?  Are you also complaining to your local stores about the cost of toilet paper?  Did you switch brands because the old brand was getting too expensive? 

Everybody would love prices to stay the same forever.  I recently bought a new F150 and I would love to have paid the same price that I did for the first new F150 I bought back in 1981.  Unfortunately price increases are a part of life in our wonderful world.  Your choices are to either shop for a better software elsewhere or grin and bear it.  If you do go elsewhere, make sure that new company will guarantee you in writing that they will never raise their prices in excess of the current US inflation rate.

I've had ProSeries since 2004. My software charges have doubled in that time. The advertised cost i would be happy with, but when they add the fast path service license fee... I have a hard time with that.

I have been using the ProSeries Basic product nearly 2 decades. I know we have year over year increases but even when we have been through periods of recession, the prices keep going up. I operate a small tax practice and have always tried to serve a group using a great software but trying to minimize costs. And is many cases, I can't afford to compete with fees being charge by other groups for tax returns. I represent a lot of seniors, lower to moderate incomes folk who need an alternative to higher prep fees. The choice comes down for some to losing clients or decreasing profit. Going back to only 2013, year over year cost of the software from 2013 increased, starting in 2014, 10%, 3%, 5%, 5%, 5%, 17%, and again 5% for upcoming 2020. The price of the product is up 62% compared to the 2013 base year I am comparing to. It is almost comparing to a similar statement about the F-150. . . having to pay $35,000 to $55,000 for a truck on a $20,000 salary. That is not affordable and the cost of ProSeries quickly approaching a point that I will have to potentially consider having to find a new software provider. I know they will probably increase as well but maybe not as much per year . . . and when  they reach the price I am paying today I'll be quite old and will probably be fully retired. I have had many preparers tell me they could no longer afford ProSeries and had to change. I don't really want to change, it just seems that Intuit may be a little out of touch with some of its users and the impact of the external influences on the economy.  

5.2% increase every year, they must think that we are idiots.  If the program were any better than previous year versions that would be a different story.  But unfortunately, I don't find any of the Intuit products (including Quickbooks) better than prior year's versions.

I was just thinking about renewal and noticed about 20% price increase over 2019. Was wondering how many people have  encountered such a dramatic hike.