Formation fee
$120
One-time state fee for the formation certificate.
last verified 2026-07-17
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Connecticut LLC
Connecticut trade names live at the town clerk
Connecticut runs its trade name system through the town clerk of each town where a business operates, with no state-level filing at all. The entity itself files with the Secretary of the State and answers an annual report window early in the year. An entity-level recurring tax is marked verified absent, checked against the statute chapter itself.
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Processing speed is the honest gap on this sheet: whether the office sells expedited service, and whether it publishes a standard time, are both unread at this snapshot, which the cards say plainly instead of guessing. A recent public act also put a fixed term and a renewal step on trade name certificates that once ran indefinitely.
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Annual report
$80
Due Jan 1 - Mar 31, printed as the state writes it.
last verified 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
unknown
No standard processing time has been read for this state at this pin. Whether this state sells expedited service has not been read at this pin.
not read yet at this pin
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."
Accepted endings for the legal name. Statute: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-243k.
last verified 2026-07-23
Name reservation
$60
Optional filing that holds the name for 120 days before you form.
last verified 2026-07-23
DBA
trade name
Filed with the county clerk, and each county prices its own filing.
last verified 2026-07-23
An individual as the agent
allowed
Whether a person may hold the seat, so nobody has to be hired. The terms Connecticut attaches, and the entity question, sit in the registered agent section.
last verified 2026-08-10
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 Connecticut trade name rules?
Connecticut calls it the trade name, and handles it at the county level, so the price and the paperwork are set locally rather than by the state.
- Where an LLC files
- How long it lasts
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5 years
Under Public Act 24-111, effective January 1, 2025, a trade name certificate is valid for five years and may be renewed in the six months before it expires. Certificates on file before January 1, 2025 expire December 31, 2029 unless renewed.
- Newspaper publication
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not required
- What the filing protects
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no exclusive right
A trade name certificate is a town-level notice filing that discloses who is behind a business name; it grants no exclusive right. Because it is filed with the town clerk and not the Secretary of the State, it is not part of the state entity-name distinguishability screen, so it neither blocks nor is blocked by names in the Secretary of the State's records.
- Where to search existing names
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Trade name certificates are held in each town clerk's records, not in the Secretary of the State's business search, so a full check means contacting the clerk in every town where a business operates. There is no statewide index of trade names.
one record, verified 2026-07-23 · Conn. Gen. Stat. § 35-1a
What does it take to register an out-of-state LLC in Connecticut?
Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Connecticut. The registration costs $120. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.
- Registration fee
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$120
Flat $120.00 statutory filing fee for a foreign registration certificate (C.G.S. Sec. 34-243u(12)); the Secretary of the State's fee statute sets the fee and chapter 613a names the document, so the record is statute-grounded because the agency portal does not answer from this network.
- The official form
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Foreign Registration Certificate (C.G.S. Sec. 34-275b)
- Filed with
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Secretary of the State (Connecticut)
- After registration
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File an annual report with the Secretary of the State between January 1 and April 1 each year (C.G.S. Sec. 34-247k) and continuously maintain an agent in this state for service of process (C.G.S. Sec. 34-243n).
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 Connecticut?
Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Connecticut. Connecticut 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 Natural person who is a 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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if the registered agent is an entity organized under the laws of this state, the address of the principal office thereof ... the address shall include the street and number or other particular designation
one record, verified 2026-08-10
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://business.ct.gov/knowledge-base/articles/domestic-limited-liability-companies-forms-and-fees
- Recurring state tax http://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_208.htm
- Naming statute https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_613a.htm
- Name reservation https://portal.ct.gov/SOTS/Business-Services/Business-Services
- DBA filing https://portal.ct.gov/SOTS/Business-Services/Tradename
- Connecticut Secretary of the State Business Services Division https://business.ct.gov
- Business entity search https://service.ct.gov/business/s/onlinebusinesssearch
The rule behind every figure here, and what a card does when one cannot be verified, sits on how a figure gets verified.