ExpressTruckTax
👤 Agie Sundaram & Naga Palanisamy (Two Rock Hill devs who earned IRS e-file authorization early, then cloned that engine across a dozen mandated tax forms.)🌐 siteabout.meLinkedIn
A boring federal mandate — the Heavy Vehicle Use Tax — became a market-leading e-file app, then a clean exit.
Will it work? · our read
Law-locked demand. The mandate guarantees buyers every year, but the $15 ticket invites a price war. SPAN won on brand and by owning the whole trucking-tax shelf, not on a deep moat.
01How the money moves
IRS mandates Form 2290 on every 55,000 lb+ truck, yearly
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Trucker self-files in minutes via IRS-authorized software
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Pay $19.90 for a single truck — every truck, every year
02The numbers
Undisclosedfigure withdrawn
Cumulative since 2011; actual revenue is undisclosed. Bestpass acquisition (PRNewswire)
Private. The old "SPAN group" estimate no longer describes the owner: ExpressTruckTax left SPAN in 2022 and now sits inside Fleetworthy. Filing fees run $19.90 for one truck up to $379.90 for the largest fleets.
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Bestpass acquires ExpressTruckTax (PRNewswire, Nov 2022)ExpressTruckTax pricing — $14.90 per Form 2290SPAN Enterprises — Inc. profile (Inc. 5000)SPAN Enterprises company spotlight (York County ED)ExpressTruckTax — Form 2290 e-file (product site)
Revenue is an EST — no first-party figure exists. The about $6M is a third-party aggregator estimate for the whole SPAN group, not ExpressTruckTax alone, and Bestpass never disclosed the 2022 acquisition price. Solid, sourced facts: the Form 2290 HVUT mandate, IRS-authorized e-file status, $14.90 pricing, 5M+ trucks and 200K+ businesses served (PRNewswire), and Inc. 5000 listings (2015-2016). 'Market leader / #1' is the company's own claim echoed in PR — plausible but not independently audited. Rival market-share weights are illustrative, and competitor prices other than ExpressTruckTax ($14.90) and TruckDues ($7.99) are approximate ([our read]). Corrected 13 July 2026: the card published $14.90 per filing, citing the pricing page. That page now lists $19.90 for a single vehicle (rising to $379.90 for the largest fleet tier) and $14.90 appears nowhere on it. The ownership was also two moves out of date — expresstrucktax.com now states it is part of Fleetworthy, having been sold out of SPAN Enterprises to Bestpass in 2022, so a 'SPAN group' revenue estimate no longer describes this product's owner at all. We never score you.