United States business-filing facts, with the evidence attached
Filing fees, statutes, closure calendars, good-standing decoders, DBA regimes and name rules for all 54 US filing jurisdictions. Every published value shows its citation, its official source, the date it was retrieved, and whether it has reviewed it. Where we cannot show that, we say so instead of guessing.
Recent fee changes
Fee changes and corrections to the record, newest first: changes already enacted and about to take effect, and the latest corrections applied. Every figure and date is read from the data.
Virginia: nonprofit reinstatement fee becomes $100.00 on January 1, 2027
nonprofit reinstatement: $10.00→$100.00
Va. Code § 13.1-916(B)(2) (Effective January 1, 2027), as enacted by 2026 Acts cc. 393 (HB439), 394 (SB246): "2. A reinstatement fee of $100 · official source (opens the official source)
Massachusetts: 2 filing fees revised
corporation formation: $265.00→$265.00; corporation formation: $265.00→$275.00
Secretary of the Commonwealth, Corporations Division, Filing Fees (Fee Schedule updated 3/14/22): Articles of Organization - $275 minimum (up to 275,000 shares) when mailed or hand delivered · official source (opens the official source)
Pennsylvania: LLC and corporation annual report fee confirmed at $7.00; citation corrected
citation-only correction; the value is unchanged
15 Pa.C.S. 153(a)(18)(ii)-(iii) (annual report of a domestic or foreign association delivered to the bureau electronically or not: $7) · official source (opens the official source)
Georgia: LLC initial report fee recorded at
LLC initial report:
Georgia Secretary of State, Business Division FAQ 'When must an annual registration be filed?': 'Georgia corporations file the first annual registration within 90 days of the date of incorporation ... Limited liability companies, limited partnerships and foreign corporations file the first annual registration between January 1 and April 1 of the year following the initial filing' · official source (opens the official source)
Washington: LLP and nonprofit initial report fee recorded at $10.00
LLP initial report: $10.00; nonprofit initial report: $10.00
WAC 434-112-085(7)(o) ('Initial report filed at a later date (deferred) Ten dollars'; (n) no fee when filed with the public organic record; subsection (7) covers chapter 25.05 RCW entities) · official source (opens the official source)
West Virginia: 4 fee records added
LLC biennial_report: $50.00; corporation biennial_report: $50.00; LP biennial_report: $50.00; LLP biennial_report: $1,000.00
W. Va. Code 59-1-2a(c) ('shall pay a biennial report fee of $50') and (d)(3) (election) as amended by HB 5227 (2026 RS, in effect 2026-07-01) · official source (opens the official source)
All changes: data change log · upcoming changes
The finding this record exists to publish
Keeping a limited-liability company alive costs $35.00 in the first year in Montana and $1,040.00 in Massachusetts - a 30x spread for the same entity type doing the same thing. Almost nobody publishes that number, because almost nobody holds the formation fee, the mandatory first-year filings, the annual report and the recurring entity-tax minimum as separate sourced records that can be added up. The full ranking, with every component sourced.
Show all 54 jurisdictions
Analysis
Questions that can only be answered by reading across every jurisdiction at once. All 16 analyses.
- Cost to keep an LLC aliveFormation plus mandatory first-year filings plus annual report plus the recurring entity-tax minimum, ranked cheapest to most expensive.
- Cost to keep a corporation aliveThe same model for a corporation, where the franchise-tax minimums land: formation, annual report and the recurring entity-tax floor, ranked.
- Formation fee, and what is actually remittedThe statutory fee against the amount that leaves the bank, and the surcharge column most published comparisons omit.
- The same filing as a corporationWhere the entity type changes the price, and by how much.
- Which states levy a recurring entity taxFranchise tax and its equivalents: who levies one, what the floor is, and where the record does not resolve the LLC case.
- Who mandates meetings, bylaws, and operating agreementsCorporate and LLC governance rules compared: annual meetings, written consent, and the handful of states that make an operating agreement mandatory.
Jurisdictions
Fifty states, the District of Columbia, and three territories. Codes shown with the full jurisdiction name available to screen readers. All 53 hub-eligible jurisdictions have a record page. The 1 dashed cell is Guam, for which the registry holds no agency URL of any kind; it links to the coverage report rather than to a stub page.
- AK - Alaska
- AL - Alabama
- AR - Arkansas
- AZ - Arizona
- CA - California
- CO - Colorado
- CT - Connecticut
- DC - District of Columbia
- DE - Delaware
- FL - Florida
- GA - Georgia
- GU - Guam
- HI - Hawaii
- IA - Iowa
- ID - Idaho
- IL - Illinois
- IN - Indiana
- KS - Kansas
- KY - Kentucky
- LA - Louisiana
- MA - Massachusetts
- MD - Maryland
- ME - Maine
- MI - Michigan
- MN - Minnesota
- MO - Missouri
- MS - Mississippi
- MT - Montana
- NC - North Carolina
- ND - North Dakota
- NE - Nebraska
- NH - New Hampshire
- NJ - New Jersey
- NM - New Mexico
- NV - Nevada
- NY - New York
- OH - Ohio
- OK - Oklahoma
- OR - Oregon
- PA - Pennsylvania
- PR - Puerto Rico
- RI - Rhode Island
- SC - South Carolina
- SD - South Dakota
- TN - Tennessee
- TX - Texas
- UT - Utah
- VA - Virginia
- VI - US Virgin Islands
- VT - Vermont
- WA - Washington
- WI - Wisconsin
- WV - West Virginia
- WY - Wyoming
What is held
| Dataset | Records | Coverage | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statute citations | 532 | 54 of 54 jurisdictions | Verified |
| Canonical filing fees | 3,329 | 54 of 54 jurisdictions | Verified |
| Good-standing decoder | 2,775 | 54 jurisdictions | Verified |
| Filing-office closures | 109 | 55 jurisdictions, 2026 and 2027 | Verified |
| Governance rules | 371 | 53 states | Verified |
| DBA legal profiles | 316 | 53 jurisdictions, 209 FAQs | Verified |
| DBA regimes | 54 | 54 jurisdictions | Verified |
| County DBA fees | 782 | 12 states | Verified |
| Registered-agent requirements | 667 | 53 jurisdictions | Verified |
| Restricted entity-name words | 413 | 54 jurisdictions | Verified |
| Franchise / entity tax (structured) | 54 | 54 jurisdictions - 29 levy such a tax, 25 verified none | Verified |
| Filing channels | 407 | 54 jurisdictions | Verified |
| Office contacts | 636 | 54 jurisdictions | Verified |
| State business license | 54 | 54 jurisdictions - general license exists, who must hold it, fees, cadence, penalty, local layer | Verified |
| Industry code on filings | 391 | 54 jurisdictions - NAICS / SIC / state list / description / none per filing | Verified |
| State activity option lists | 31 | 18 jurisdictions - options rendered only where verified | Verified |
| Counties | 3,225 | 54 jurisdictions - name, type, FIPS; seats and sites not yet published | Verified |
| NAICS 2022 + SIC 1987 reference | 3,639 | two lists plus the Census bridge - reference page | Verified |
| UCC search facts | 54 | 54 jurisdictions - filing office, official search entry, access terms, UCC contacts | Verified |
| UCC filing fees | 54 | 54 jurisdictions - UCC-1 fee as published, filing channels, expedite tiers, effectiveness period | Verified |
| Agent authority after administrative dissolution | 54 | 54 jurisdictions - continues / ends / silent per entity class, status words, reinstatement window, agent resignation - national table | Verified |
| UCC search fees | 54 | 54 jurisdictions - certified search and per-debtor-name rule, online search, copies, certification, channels - national table | Verified |
| Statute corpus | 951 | 54 jurisdictions - the statute text library (dated captures, excluded from search engines) | Verified |
| Monitored sources | 447 | all monitored jurisdictions | Verified |
Publication tier reflects the real state of the repository on 2026-10-25, not an aspiration. 24 of 24 datasets clear the gate. See the review gate for what each tier means and coverage for the full gap map.
What makes this different
On 2026-08-05 a search for nevada llc filing fee returned eight results.
Every one was a company selling formation services. The Nevada Secretary of State did not
appear. The same held for California and Florida. This site exists because a number without
a source is not a fact, and because the agencies that publish the numbers are not the ones
ranking for them.
The corollary is uncomfortable and we publish it anyway: most of this record is not yet verified to the standard we have set for ourselves, and every page says which parts are which.
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