Formation fee
$50
One-time state fee for the formation certificate.
last verified 2026-07-17
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Arizona LLC
Arizona asks for no annual report at all
An Arizona LLC forms at the Corporation Commission and then owes the filing office nothing on a calendar: annual report fee and due date are both verified absences, and the tax card shows the same checked reading. Expedited review is sold in tiers above the ordinary queue. The formation record still names members, so anonymity is marked unavailable.
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Names are where the two-agency structure bites: the optional trade name registers with the Secretary of State, a different office from the commission that holds the entity itself. That registration is public notice of use and grants no exclusive right, by the agency's own description. A full name check therefore spans both offices, not one.
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Annual report
none
This state files no LLC annual report. The absence is verified, not missing data.
verified absent 2026-07-17
Franchise tax
none
No recurring state-level tax on an LLC here. The absence is verified against the state, not missing data.
verified absent 2026-08-07
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 $35.
as observed on 2026-08-06
Name designators
Must contain the words "limited liability company" or "limited company," or the abbreviation "L.L.C.," "LLC," "L.C.," or "LC," in uppercase or lowercase letters.
Accepted endings for the legal name. Statute: A.R.S. § 29-3112(A).
last verified 2026-08-04
Name reservation
$10
Optional filing that holds the name for 120 days (nonrenewable) before you form.
last verified 2026-08-04
DBA
trade name
One statewide register; the filing costs $10.
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 Arizona 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 Arizona trade name rules?
Arizona calls it the trade name, and keeps one statewide register for it. The state filing costs $10.
- Where an LLC files
- How long it lasts
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5 years
Renewable for further five-year terms.
- Newspaper publication
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not required
- What the filing protects
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no exclusive right
A trade name registration is public notice that you use the name; the Secretary of State's own guidance says it grants no exclusive right and no trademark protection. It has one practical effect: a registered trade name is part of the A.R.S. § 29-3112 distinguishability test, so while it is active the Corporation Commission will not register a new entity name that fails to be distinguishable from it.
- Where to search existing names
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Arizona trade names live at the Secretary of State, not the Corporation Commission, so they are searched in a different database from the entity business search. Clearing a name fully in Arizona means checking both.
one record, verified 2026-08-04 · A.R.S. § 44-1460
What does it take to register an out-of-state LLC in Arizona?
Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Arizona. 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 statutory filing fee of $150.00 for a foreign registration statement (A.R.S. 29-3213).
- The official form
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Foreign Registration Statement
- Filed with
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Arizona Corporation Commission
- After registration
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Maintain a statutory agent with a street address in this state and file an amendment to the foreign registration statement when required information changes.
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 Arizona?
Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Arizona. Arizona lets a natural person serve, so no commercial agent is required. The LLC itself may also hold the seat.
- An individual as the agent
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Allowed
in the state's words A statutory agent must be either an individual resident of this state
- The LLC as its own agent
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Allowed
- A mailbox service as the address
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not read at this pin
- Address rule
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A statutory agent for a limited liability company or registered foreign limited liability company must have a place of business or residence in this state.
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://azcc.gov/docs/default-source/corps-files/fee-schedules/fee-schedule-llcs.pdf
- Recurring state tax https://azdor.gov/business/corporate-income-tax
- Expedited service and processing time https://www.azcc.gov/faqs/BusinessServicesFAQs
- Naming statute https://www.azleg.gov/ars/29/03112.htm
- Name reservation https://azcc.gov/corporations/forms
- Foreign LLC registration https://www.azleg.gov/ars/29/03213.htm
- Who may be the registered agent https://www.azleg.gov/ars/29/03115.htm
- DBA filing https://apps.azsos.gov/Business_Services/WEB_TN_INSTRUCT.htm
- Arizona Corporation Commission Corporations Division https://www.azcc.gov/corporations
- Business entity search https://arizonabusinesscenter.azcc.gov/businesssearch
The rule behind every figure here, and what a card does when one cannot be verified, sits on how a figure gets verified.