NEW SURVEY RESULTS: Busy Season Prices Heading Up 4.1%

Source: CPA Trendlines

After a conservative 3.2% price increase last year.

Complete findings are published in The CPA Trendlines Practitioner’s Tax Season Performance Review and Outlook Report. (Learn more here)

Tax and accounting practitioners are again cautiously raising prices this year, prompted by years of little or no rate hikes and continuing step-ups in labor and technology costs, according to new CPA Trendlines survey data.

Becky Klotz, the head of small local firm of tax consultants in Oregon, says that, with an economy where “I don’t see much improvement in the near future,” her firm will be raising pricing, but “just a bit.”

On the other hand, Wray Rives at Rives CPA in Coppell, Texas, is holding the line. “We believe we are priced at the right level for our market,” he says.