Franchises · 2026 FDD · Wisconsin DFI filing 642179
Jackson Hewitt franchise cost, unit revenue and closures
Opening a Jackson Hewitt cost $71,050 to $105,000 in the 2026 FDD; the median unit sold $138,300 in the franchisor's 2025-05-01 to 2026-04-30 figures; 13.7% of franchised units closed over three years.
Franchisor: Jackson Hewitt Inc.. FDD issued 2026-07-29. Fiscal year end 2026-04-30. Figures re-found on the cited page 2026-11-03.
What a unit costs to open
one standard storefront office for a new franchisee; each kiosk office adds $18,900 to $39,500 (page 18), and a new franchise includes two kiosks.
What a unit pays the franchisor
| Initial franchise fee | $25,000 | Item 5, p. 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Royalty | Royalty Fee 15% of Gross Volume of Business from the fourth Reporting Year; a new office ramps 3%, 6% and 9% in its first three Reporting Years (an expansion-program storefront 7% and 12% in its first two) | Item 6, p. 9 |
| Advertising fund | Advertising Fee 6.5% of Gross Volume of Business | Item 6, p. 9 |
plus a $500 application fee; covers one storefront and two kiosks; waived under the Existing Franchisee Expansion Program.
The 15% is the mature rate; the first years carry the lower ramp rates.
What a unit sells
Item 19 is optional and is the franchisor's own representation. It is shown here as filed, with the franchisor's measure, sample and period, and nothing is estimated where it is missing.
| Measure | Gross Volume of Business, fiscal year ended 2026-04-30, standard (storefront) franchised offices | |
|---|---|---|
| Sample | 1,362 units: 1,362 standard franchised offices among the 2,407 2026 Covered Offices (active and open for at least one prior Tax Season; 97.53% of the 2,468 franchised offices active at 2026-04-15); 1,045 kiosk offices average $63,339, median $51,731; all offices average $122,535, median $88,934; excludes 55 terminated or non-renewed and 191 reacquired offices | |
| Period | 2025-05-01 to 2026-04-30 | |
| High / low | $1,507,156 / $180 | |
Revenue to investment
Formula: Item 19 standard-office median / Item 7 storefront total (midpoint, low, high). A ratio of 1.00 means one year of median unit revenue equals the investment; it says nothing about profit.
How many units open and close
| Franchised units | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start of year | 3,092 | 2,981 | 2,744 |
| Opened | 96 | 76 | 56 |
| Terminated | 7 | 37 | 51 |
| Not renewed | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Reacquired by franchisor | 68 | 171 | 191 |
| Ceased, other reasons | 131 | 102 | 86 |
| End of year | 2,981 | 2,744 | 2,468 |
| Company-owned, end of year | 2,240 | 2,423 | 2,656 |
Item 20, Table 1 p. 45; Table 3 totals p. 52.
Closures are the franchisor's Item 20 counts of units terminated, not renewed, or ceased for other reasons, summed over 2024–2026 and divided by franchised units at the start of 2024. Units the franchisor reacquired are not closures. This is an Item 20 count, not a failure rate.
fiscal years ending April 30; counts are offices, not franchise agreements.
Source and method
Every figure above comes from the Jackson Hewitt Franchise Disclosure Document issued 2026-07-29, as filed with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (filing 642179, registry record). The PDF is the franchisor's and is not hosted here; the item and page beside each figure is where to check it. Item 7 and Item 20 tables were read cell by cell; Item 19 was read by hand; each Item 20 year was checked to sum (start + opened − exits = end) before it was recorded.
A franchise is one storefront office plus two kiosk offices under a single agreement. The fiscal year ends April 30, so the Item 20 tables run fiscal 2024 to 2026, and the franchisor reacquired 430 franchised offices over those three years..
Informational only, not professional, legal or investment advice. Unitnomics computes from the filing and does not advise on, rank, or refer to any franchise. Last reviewed: November 2026.