Formation fee
$45
One-time state fee for the formation certificate.
last verified 2026-07-17
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Arkansas LLC
The Arkansas annual report is the franchise tax
Arkansas collects its flat franchise tax through the annual report itself: one filing, one payment, due on a fixed spring date, and the sheet counts that money a single time. The tax carries a published floor and lands at the Secretary of State rather than a revenue agency. Formation is priced modestly and the office publishes its usual completion window.
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The fictitious name has an unusual life cycle in the record: it never expires and is never renewed, while cancelling it becomes an obligation once the name falls out of use. No expedited service is sold at any tier, a verified reading. The registered agent cannot sit behind a commercial mail receiving agency, a refusal the record cites.
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Annual report
$150
Due May 1, printed as the state writes it.
last verified 2026-07-17
Franchise tax
$150
Arkansas calls it the Franchise Tax, collected by Arkansas Secretary of State, Business and Commercial Services Division. That money is already inside the annual report figure in field 02, so this sheet counts it once and not twice.
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
0 to 2 business days
Filed online, 0 to 2 business days, and 0 to 2 business days by mail, as the state states it. This state sells no expedited service.
as observed on 2026-08-06
Name designators
Must contain the words "limited liability company" or "limited company," or the abbreviations "L.L.C.," "LLC," "L.C.," or "LC." The word "Limited" may be abbreviated "Ltd." and "Company" may be abbreviated "Co."
Accepted endings for the legal name. Statute: Ark. Code § 4-38-112(a), (f).
last verified 2026-08-05
Name reservation
$22.50
Optional filing that holds the name for 120 days before you form.
last verified 2026-08-05
DBA
fictitious name
LLCs file at the state level for $22.50; other business forms file with the county.
last verified 2026-08-06
An individual as the agent
unknown
Whether a person may hold the seat, so nobody has to be hired. The terms Arkansas attaches, and the entity question, sit in the registered agent section.
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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 Arkansas trade name rules?
Arkansas calls it the fictitious name, and splits the filing: an LLC registers with the state, while other business forms file locally. The state filing costs $22.50.
- Where an LLC files
- How long it lasts
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Perpetual (no expiration)
A fictitious name does not expire and there is no renewal. Cancellation is an obligation rather than an option: under § 4-38-122(e) an LLC that dissolves, or that surrenders or forfeits its right to do business in Arkansas, or that simply stops using the fictitious name, must file a cancellation with the Secretary of State, and if it does not the Secretary of State may cancel the privilege on satisfactory evidence.
- Newspaper publication
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not required
- What the filing protects
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no exclusive right
A fictitious name discloses the name a business trades under and grants no exclusive right. Arkansas ties a consequence to not filing rather than a reward for filing, and § 4-38-122(f) is specific and one-sided: where an unregistered LLC is party to a contract, deed, conveyance, assignment or instrument of encumbrance that names it exclusively by the fictitious name, the obligations imposed on the company and the rights the instrument confers on third parties are still enforceable against it, while the company's own rights under that instrument may not be enforced in Arkansas courts until it complies with the section and pays a $300 civil penalty to the Treasurer of State. The filing does carry one screening effect: under § 4-38-122(c) the Secretary of State will not accept a fictitious name that is the same as, or confusingly similar to, an existing entity or reserved name, which is a lower bar than the distinguishability test § 4-38-112 applies to entity names.
- Where to search existing names
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Entity fictitious names filed with the Secretary of State appear in the state business search. Sole proprietor fictitious names sit only in county clerk records, so a full check of individual DBAs means searching the relevant county.
one record, verified 2026-08-06 · Ark. Code § 4-38-122
What does it take to register an out-of-state LLC in Arkansas?
Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Arkansas. The registration costs $270. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.
- Registration fee
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$270
Online filing fee of $270.00 for Form FL-01; paper filing costs $300.00 (the form and fee tables state both figures).
- The official form
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Application for Certificate of Registration of Foreign Limited Liability Company (Form FL-01)
- Filed with
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Arkansas Secretary of State, Business and Commercial Services
- After registration
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File the annual LLC franchise tax report (currently $150) with the Secretary of State and maintain a registered agent for service of process in Arkansas.
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 Arkansas?
Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Arkansas.
- An individual as the agent
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not read at this pin
- The LLC as its own agent
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not read at this pin
- A mailbox service as the address
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Not accepted
- Address rule
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The registered agent's address must be a street address in Arkansas, and the agent must be located at that address.
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.sos.arkansas.gov/business-commercial-services-bcs/franchise-tax-report-forms/
- Expedited service and processing time https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/business-commercial-services-bcs/frequently-asked-questions-faqs/business-services-faq/
- Naming statute https://law.justia.com/codes/arkansas/title-4/subtitle-3/chapter-38/subchapter-1/section-4-38-112/
- Name reservation https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/business-commercial-services-bcs/forms-fees/llc
- Foreign LLC registration https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/business-commercial-services-bcs/forms-fees/llc/foreign-llc
- Registered agent rules https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/business-commercial-services-bcs/frequently-asked-questions-faqs/business-services-faq
- DBA filing https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/uploads/bcs/DN-18_2.pdf
- Arkansas Secretary of State Business and Commercial Services https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/business-commercial-services-bcs
- Business entity search https://sos-corp-search.ark.org/corps
The rule behind every figure here, and what a card does when one cannot be verified, sits on how a figure gets verified.