You keep your invoices and expenses up to date yourself, but the end of the year is approaching and you do not know whether to hire an accountant or handle the tax return on your own. "How much does that actually cost" is usually the first question — and the second is whether the price is worth it compared with the time you would save doing it yourself.
Accounting fees in Czech Republic vary a lot depending on whether you are a VAT payer, how many documents you process each month, and what state your paperwork is in when you hand it over. Let's look at realistic price ranges from public price lists, what pushes the price up the most, and three ways to organise your 2026 admin — from doing everything yourself to full outsourcing.
How much an accountant costs in 2026: ranges from public price lists
Only a specific quote will give you an exact price, since it depends on your document volume and region. Based on public accounting-firm price lists from summer 2026, though, you can roughly expect the following ranges:
| Type of self-employed person | Monthly price | Roughly per year |
|---|---|---|
| Non-VAT payer, tax records, fewer documents | 500–1,600 CZK | 6,000–19,000 CZK |
| VAT payer | 1,000–2,500 CZK | 12,000–30,000 CZK + the tax return |
| Annual tax return and statements only, no ongoing bookkeeping | — | 1,500–5,000 CZK one-off |
The reports for the ČSSZ and your health insurance company are usually included in the price of the annual tax return; consultations beyond routine work are typically billed by the hour. These prices are indicative and checked as of summer 2026 — before choosing an accountant, compare current price lists, for example the public price overview on Fintaxo (in Czech) or the summary on Účetnictví.cz (in Czech).
What pushes the price up
- Number of documents a month. Dozens of invoices and receipts mean more work than a handful of documents.
- VAT registration. The VAT return and the VAT control statement add to the monthly fee.
- Employees. Payroll is usually billed separately, per employee.
- Foreign clients or suppliers. More complex assessment of the transaction and any related VAT obligations.
- Disorganised documents. Chasing down missing receipts and explaining unclear payments is often billed as extra work.
- Late delivery of documents. An accountant who receives your documents at the last minute will usually ask for an express-processing surcharge.
None of this means you automatically have to pick the most expensive offer on the market. If your records are tidy and you hand documents over regularly, even as a VAT payer you will often land at the lower end of the range — the price is not set only by your type of business, but mainly by how much extra work your documents actually create for the accountant.
What a month looks like with an app in practice
Anna Example, a freelance graphic designer registered for VAT, keeps her invoices and expenses up to date in the app: she issues an invoice as soon as she delivers a project and uploads receipts for software and equipment within a few days of buying them. Once a month she checks her list of unpaid invoices and sends any reminders that are due. At the end of the quarter she exports the records for her accountant, who checks the VAT control statement, files the VAT return, and once a year the income tax return too. The accountant does not bill for time spent sorting receipts, only for the actual review and filing — so the monthly fee lands at the lower end of the range for VAT payers.
How to keep the price down even if you do have an accountant
You reliably keep the price down by handing documents over regularly and digitally, not once a year in a shoebox. A simple monthly routine helps: upload receipts right after you buy something, issue invoices from one place, and clearly mark what is personal and what is for the business. See What to Send Your Czech Accountant Each Month: A Freelancer's Checklist for a concrete way to hand documents over without endless back-and-forth.
Three ways to organise your admin
1. Do everything yourself with an app
Suits people on the lump-sum tax, non-VAT payers using flat-rate expenses, and simple non-VAT payers with real expenses and few documents. You issue invoices and record expenses and documents directly in the app, then prepare your own return from what the app gives you. The only cost is the subscription price and a few hours a year.
2. Hybrid: records in the app, an accountant once a year
The most common setup for self-employed people with regular clients. You keep invoices and expenses up to date yourself; once a year an accountant or tax advisor checks your records and files your return and statements. Exporting for an accountant into Pohoda or Money S3 accounting software, and a shared income-and-expense ledger, save both sides hours of work.
3. Full outsourcing
Worth it for VAT payers with dozens of documents a month, anyone with employees, a limited liability company (s.r.o.), foreign clients, or a tax-office inspection to deal with. The accountant takes over ongoing bookkeeping and dealing with the authorities, and the price scales with the amount of work.
| Your situation | Recommended model | Rough annual cost |
|---|---|---|
| Lump-sum tax or a handful of documents a month | Do it yourself with an app | just the subscription price |
| Non-VAT payer with real expenses, records kept up to date | Hybrid: app + annual check | 1,500–5,000 CZK |
| VAT payer with dozens of documents a month | Hybrid with regular checks | 12,000–30,000 CZK |
| Employees, s.r.o., foreign clients, tax-office inspection | Full outsourcing | depends on scope, typically tens of thousands of CZK |
Accounting fees are also a tax-deductible business expense, which is worth remembering when you weigh the cost against doing it yourself.
When you genuinely need an advisor or accountant
There are situations where it does not pay to guess for yourself, no matter how big your business is or how well you otherwise manage your records:
- registering as a VAT payer,
- selling business assets,
- converting from self-employment to a limited liability company (s.r.o.),
- foreign income or foreign clients,
- a tax-office inspection or a formal request,
- a tax loss.
In these cases, the cost of an individual assessment is usually lower than the risk of a mistake on your return.
What is usually included, and what an accountant bills separately
The monthly prices above usually include routine document processing, keeping tax records, and the annual income tax return along with the reports for the ČSSZ and your health insurance company. An accountant typically bills separately for payroll, processing foreign-currency documents beyond the usual volume, representing you during a tax-office inspection, one-off consultations outside routine work, or retroactively tracking down and recalculating older periods. Before you sign anything, get the scope of services written down — a verbal "that's included" is hard to enforce when an invoice for extra work you never budgeted for shows up at year end.
When your own records are enough without an accountant
If you are on the lump-sum tax, a non-VAT payer with few documents, or just starting out with straightforward expenses, you can manage your records yourself. Most self-employed people in Czech Republic only have to keep simplified tax records, not full double-entry bookkeeping, and a well-set-up system lets you manage that without any accounting background. The decision does not come down to whether you are "good enough" for it, but to how much time your own record-keeping actually costs you, and whether you would rather spend that time on work for clients.
How Taxorio handles this
Taxorio keeps your income-and-expense ledger up to date as you go and shows a rough estimate of your income tax right on your dashboard, so you know roughly where you stand before you even talk to an accountant. On the Pro plan you can also generate XML files for the VAT return, the VAT control statement, and a basic scenario for the personal income tax return — you check every output yourself before filing. To hand data to an accountant, you export it for accounting software such as Pohoda or Money S3, so the hybrid model works without re-typing documents twice.
What Taxorio does not replace is an individual assessment of your situation, representation before the authorities, or the responsibility a tax advisor carries. The 690 CZK annual Pro subscription is more a complement to an accountant than a replacement for one — it saves them, and so you, time, not tax decisions. If you are still weighing whether your business is simple enough to go without a paid accountant, compare your own situation against the three models above — and if you are still keeping records in a spreadsheet, see Czech Tax Records in Excel 2026: Template and Limits on what a spreadsheet will not catch for you.