TaxCloud

About TaxCloud

Buying TaxCloud means choosing two things separately, and that split is what makes it cheap or not. First comes a subscription sized by order volume: Starter at $199 a year covers 1,200 orders and gives return-ready sales tax reports for all states, nexus monitoring across all 50, SST program access and data-import integrations for Shopify and Stripe. Premium at $799 a year covers 2,400 orders and adds real-time tax calculation, ERP connectors, API access, an address verification API and a developer testing environment. Both ladder upward from there — Starter to 240,000 annual orders, Premium to 480,000 — and an order is counted generously: sales, refunds, returns, exemption certificate applications, CSV imports, tax calculations and address verifications all draw down the allotment, so usage routinely runs ahead of raw order count. Then filing is a second subscription starting at $39 a month, sold in return blocks from 12 to 600 a year, with per-filing rates advertised as low as $20; audit support is another line starting at $99 a month, and Colorado and Louisiana filings carry surcharges. The genuine differentiator is regulatory rather than technical. TaxCloud is approved by the Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board as a Certified Service Provider in all 24 member states, which makes filing, remittance, return prep and remote-seller registration free there for eligible sellers — a structural discount no non-CSP competitor can match, and the reason a multi-state seller's effective cost can land well below the headline. Operated by The Federal Tax Authority, LLC since 2008, TaxCloud took $20M in growth equity from Camber Partners in 2024 and reports 2,000+ customers and over a million orders processed monthly.

Pricing

Model

Paid

Starting price

$199/yr (Starter, 1,200 orders)

Notes

Two stacked subscriptions, verified in-browser on 2026-08-26. Platform plan: Starter from $199/year billed yearly at the 1,200-order tier, laddering through 2,400, 4,800, 12,000, 24,000, 48,000, 120,000 and 240,000 annual orders; Premium from $799/year at the 2,400-order tier, laddering to 480,000. Yearly billing saves up to 16% versus monthly. Filing is priced separately, starting at $39/month, chosen in return allotments of 12, 36, 60, 120, 180, 240, 320, 400 or 600 returns; the vendor advertises plans as low as $20 per filing at higher volumes. Audit support starts at $99/month. Colorado and Louisiana filings carry surcharges. As a Streamlined Sales Tax Certified Service Provider approved in all 24 SST member states, TaxCloud provides no-cost filing, remittance and return prep there plus free registration for remote sellers who meet basic eligibility requirements — which materially lowers effective cost for multi-state sellers. A 30-day free trial gives Premium-tier access without a credit card but excludes filing services and state registration; the account pauses at trial end until a plan is chosen. Custom onboarding, dedicated success manager, virtual mailbox, state registration and VDAs are quoted separately. Watch the order definition: sales, refunds, returns, exemption certificate applications, CSV imports, tax calculations and address verifications each consume allotment, so order usage typically exceeds raw order count.

Key Features

• Real-time sales tax calculation across roughly 13,000 US jurisdictions with automatic rate updates (Premium tier)
• Streamlined Sales Tax Certified Service Provider approval in all 24 member states, giving no-cost filing, remittance, return prep and remote-seller registration there for eligible sellers
• Return-ready sales tax reports for all states plus jurisdiction-level reporting and a report download centre
• Economic nexus monitoring across all 50 states
• Filing and remittance sold as a separate return-allotment subscription from $39/month
• Exemption certificate management, product tax code catalogue and address verification API
• Integrations with Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Magento/Adobe Commerce, Odoo, QuickBooks, Chargebee, Stripe, Miva and a custom API
• Multi-account management for accountants and team access controls
• Add-on services: custom onboarding, dedicated success manager, virtual mailbox for state notices, state registration, audit support and VDAs

Platforms

• Web
• API

Alternatives to TaxCloud

• Avalara
• Stripe Tax
• Zamp
• Numeral
• Kintsugi