Formation fee
$250
One-time state fee for the formation certificate.
last verified 2026-07-17
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Alaska LLC
An Alaska LLC cannot be its own agent
Alaska's commerce department receives the formation filing, and the statute bars the company from naming itself as its registered agent, a researched refusal cited on the sheet. The report cadence is biennial rather than yearly. A separate business license recurs as a flat charge with a published floor, collected by the same department under its own name.
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The business name registration is the surprise in the naming row: it confers an exclusive right on its holder, which the sheet grades as exclusive registration instead of plain notice. Expedited handling is sold as priority over the regular queue, with no promised turnaround attached. Renewal of the name runs on a fixed cycle the record quotes.
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Annual report
$100
Due Jan 2 (Biennial), printed as the state writes it.
last verified 2026-07-17
Franchise tax
$50
Alaska calls it the Business License, collected by Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing. It is a flat $50 a year, separate from the annual report.
last verified 2026-08-08
Anonymous LLC
no
Member or organizer names reach the public formation record here.
last verified 2026-08-06
no source in the snapshot
Processing time
published, not as a range
The state publishes a processing time in prose rather than as a range, so this sheet links it instead of restating it. Expedited formation starts at $150.
as observed on 2026-08-07
Name designators
Must contain the words "limited liability company" or the abbreviation "L.L.C." or "LLC." The word "Limited" may be abbreviated "Ltd." and "Company" may be abbreviated "Co." The name may use a city, borough, or village name but may not imply that the company is a municipality.
Accepted endings for the legal name. Statute: AS 10.50.020.
last verified 2026-08-04
Name reservation
$25
Optional filing that holds the name for 120 days before you form.
last verified 2026-08-04
DBA
business name registration
One statewide register; the filing costs $25.
last verified 2026-08-04
An individual as the agent
allowed
Whether a person may hold the seat, so nobody has to be hired. The terms Alaska attaches, and the entity question, sit in the registered agent section.
last verified 2026-08-09
field 05 carries the date it was observed, not a promise: of the two halves beside it, only the expedited tiers are prices the state commits to
What are the Alaska trade name rules?
Alaska calls it the business name registration, and keeps one statewide register for it. The state filing costs $25.
- Where an LLC files
- How long it lasts
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5 years
A registration is effective for five years, including any part of the filing year, and is renewable between October 1 and December 31 of the year it expires.
- Newspaper publication
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not required
- What the filing protects
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exclusive to the registrant
Unusually for a DBA-style filing, an Alaska business name registration gives the owner the exclusive right to use the name for five years, so it functions more like a trademark registration than a bare disclosure.
- Where to search existing names
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Registered business names appear in the Division of Corporations entity search.
one record, verified 2026-08-04 · AS 10.35.040
What does it take to register an out-of-state LLC in Alaska?
Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Alaska. The registration costs $150. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.
- Registration fee
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$150
Flat regulatory filing fee of $150.00 for the application for registration as a foreign limited liability company (3 AAC 16.065).
- The official form
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Application for Registration as a Foreign Limited Liability Company
- Filed with
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Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
- After registration
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File a biennial report (due before January 2 of each filing year; $200.00 for a foreign LLC) and continuously maintain a registered office and registered agent in Alaska.
one record, verified 2026-08-08
The same fee for every other jurisdiction sits on one page: foreign qualification fees for every jurisdiction.
Who may serve as the registered agent in Alaska?
Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Alaska. Alaska lets a natural person serve, so no commercial agent is required. The LLC itself may not hold the seat, which is a separate question.
- An individual as the agent
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Allowed
in the state's words an individual resident of this state whose business office is the same as the registered office
- The LLC as its own agent
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Not allowed
- A mailbox service as the address
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not read at this pin
- Address rule
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The registered office may be the same as the office of the company. The registered agent may be either an individual resident of this state whose business office is the same as the registered office, or a domestic or foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state whose business office is the same as the registered office.
one record, verified 2026-08-09
The same four answers for every other jurisdiction sit on one page: registered agent rules for every jurisdiction.
Where do these figures come from?
Every figure on this sheet renders from the pinned dataset snapshot, and each card links the page its own figure came from. This list collects those pages in one place, with the duplicates removed and the agency named.
- Formation and annual report figures https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/cbpl/Corporations/CorpFormsFees/FormsbyEntity
- Recurring tax: Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp?media=print&secStart=43.70.020&secEnd=43.70.020
- Expedited service and processing time https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/Portals/5/pub/corp0484.pdf
- Naming statute https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#10.50.025
- Name reservation https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/cbpl/Corporations/ReservingRegisteringBusinessName.aspx
- Foreign LLC registration https://www.akleg.gov/basis/aac.asp?media=js&secStart=3.16.065&secEnd=3.16.065
- Who may be the registered agent https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp?media=print&secStart=10.50.055&secEnd=10.50.055
- Alaska Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/cbpl/corporations
- Business entity search https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/cbp/main/search/entities
The rule behind every figure here, and what a card does when one cannot be verified, sits on how a figure gets verified.