Trends · data through September 2026

Tax Preparation Services in the United States

Iceflower tracks 2,474 stores from 174 tax preparation service chains in the United States. Liberty Tax Service grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Block Advisors and Liberty Tax.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
174
Tracked stores
2,474
Consumer panel
130M+

State by state

The leading tax preparation service chains in every state

Tracked tax preparation service chains ranked by consumer spend in each state, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. H&R Block leads in all 34 states with enough data. Against their share in the US as a whole, H&R Block stands out in 29 states, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service in 3 states, and Liberty Tax in 2 states.

By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026

Not enough tracked stores: 17 states

Not enough tracked stores: 17 states

A state shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked tax preparation service chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to the US compares a chain's share of the state's spend with its share in the US as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in the US and the chains that lead a state by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the state's spend and 3 stores there. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked tax preparation service chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Liberty Tax Service and Block Advisors sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Liberty Tax Service - +9.6%
2 Block Advisors - +8.5%
3 Liberty Tax - +5.8%
4 Zappitelli Financial Services - +1.6%
5 H&R Block - +0.2%
6 Jackson Hewitt Tax Service - -22.2%
  • H&R Block
  • Jackson Hewitt Tax Service
  • Liberty Tax
  • RJ Caruso Tax & Accounting
  • Montgomery County Tax Pros
  • Idaho Tax & Bookkeeping Services, LLC
  • Encinitas Vape & Smoke
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

2,474 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 2,300 of the 2,474 stores (93%); 165 of the 174 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • H&R Block (2,094)
  • Jackson Hewitt Tax Service (105)
  • Liberty Tax (92)
  • RJ Caruso Tax & Accounting (1)
  • Montgomery County Tax Pros (1)
  • Idaho Tax & Bookkeeping Services, LLC (1)
  • Encinitas Vape & Smoke (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 H&R Block 2,094
  • 2 Jackson Hewitt Tax Service 105
  • 3 Liberty Tax 92
  • 4 Block Advisors 5
  • 5 Zappitelli Financial Services 4
  • 6 Liberty Tax Service 3
  • 7 April Tax Services 2
  • 8 Professional Tax Service 2
  • 9 Brighton Jones 2
  • 10 Phillips Tax Services 1
  • 11 Tax Cottage 1
  • 12 Just Taxes 1
  • 13 The Income Tax Office 1
  • 14 Jan's Tax Services 1
  • 15 Trusted Tax Service LLC 1
  • 16 Ep Tax Service Llc 1
  • 17 Beacon Insurance Advisors 1
  • 18 Perfect Tax 1
  • 19 Zayas Tax Service & Immigration 1
  • 20 Accurate Tax Service 1
  • 21 Haidara Tax & Immigration Services 1
  • 22 Angie Wilson Professional Services, LLC 1
  • 23 Shirley Middleton Tax Service 1
  • 24 Dunn Tax Service 1
  • 25 Union Hispana Multiservices LLC 1
  • 26 Lewis Accounting 1
  • 27 Alliance Tax 1
  • 28 Amigo Tax 1
  • 29 Hayward Tax Service 1
  • 30 West Tax Service 1
  • 31 BZ Beez Tax & Insurance Services 1
  • 32 Tammy B. Payne, CPA 1
  • 33 The Paperwork Pros 1
  • 34 Carroll's National Tax 1
  • 35 Preferred Accounting, Inc. 1
  • 36 Austin's Accounting and Tax Services PC 1
  • 37 Steve Weber CPA 1
  • 38 Brown & Goodsell Accounting 1
  • 39 Universal Tax Service 1
  • 40 Harper Accounting & Tax Service 1
  • 41 Mahan Tax Professionals 1
  • 42 Andring Tax & Accounting Service 1
  • 43 Hebb & Company LLC 1
  • 44 Carlins Tax & Financial Services 1
  • 45 Hordys Income Tax Services 1
  • 46 Blomberg & Griffin Accountancy Corp 1
  • 47 Frost Company Bookkeeping and Tax Services 1
  • 48 Tax Help 1
  • 49 GM TAX Center 1
  • 50 Winsett Financial Group 1

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