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Connecticut LLC

oldest record on this page verified 2026-08-07

sources: linked on each field, listed in full below

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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The office sells expedited service for online filings and publishes a standard processing statement, though not as a numeric range the cards can compare across states. 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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Should you form your LLC in Connecticut?

If the answer is yes, the home-state rule points to Connecticut.

Office or storefront in Connecticut?

Yes, it will

A business with a real footprint in Connecticut files in Connecticut. Forming anywhere else adds a foreign registration back home: two filings, two annual bills, two registered agents. The out-of-state discount does not survive that arithmetic.

No, it will not

This one answer cannot choose a state. Use the full four-question wizard with the place where the business will actually operate. Open the full wizard .

Formation fee

$120

last verified 2026-09-04

business.ct.gov

Annual report

$80

Due Jan 1 - Mar 31, printed as the state writes it.

last verified 2026-09-04

business.ct.gov

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

cga.ct.gov

Anonymous LLC

Member or organizer names reach the public formation record here.

last verified 2026-08-10

cga.ct.gov

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 $50.

as observed on 2026-09-09

business.ct.gov

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."

Statute: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-243k.

last verified 2026-09-05

cga.ct.gov

Name reservation

$60

Optional filing that holds the name for 120 days before you form.

last verified 2026-09-05

business.ct.gov

DBA

trade name

Filed with the county clerk, and each county prices its own filing.

last verified 2026-09-05

business.ct.gov

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

cga.ct.gov

Late filing penalty

none

No late fee is published for a missed report, and that is a checked finding rather than a gap. It is not an all-clear: the state can still dissolve the LLC by administrative action, and section 09 carries that record.

verified absent 2026-08-10

business.ct.gov

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 DBA 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

business.ct.gov

How long it lasts

5 years

Under § 35-1b(a), renewal may be filed on the prescribed form from six months before expiration through the expiration date; the renewed certificate runs for five years from the previous certificate's expiration. Under § 35-1a(e), certificates issued before January 1, 2025 expire December 31, 2029 unless renewed; those older names may be renewed at any time during that five-year transition, with five years running from acceptance of renewal. P.A. 26-81 § 2 changes the renewal rule effective October 1, 2026, removing the six-month window and starting the new five-year term upon acceptance; that change is not yet in effect.

Newspaper publication

not required

What the filing protects

no exclusive right

A trade name certificate identifies the people or business organization operating under an assumed name and grants no exclusive right to that name. Section 35-1d(c) does not require a town clerk to determine uniqueness in the filing town or any other Connecticut town. Multiple businesses may use the same trade name; registration is not a name-availability clearance.

Where to search existing names

sots.service.ct.gov

Section 35-1c(b) provides for statewide public electronic searching of trade name certificate information, and the Connecticut Trade Name Registry offers a dedicated Trade Names Records Search. This is separate from the entity-name search. The Secretary may require town clerks to use the system on and after January 1, 2026. Older local records may remain outside the electronic registry during the transition through December 31, 2029, so consult the relevant town clerk for legacy filings. Search results do not establish exclusivity or a required uniqueness check.

one record, verified 2026-09-05 · Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 35-1a to 35-1d

cga.ct.gov

What does it take to register a foreign 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

$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.

cga.ct.gov

The official form

Foreign Registration Certificate (C.G.S. Sec. 34-275b)

cga.ct.gov

Filed with

Secretary of the State (Connecticut)

cga.ct.gov

After registration

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).

cga.ct.gov

one record, verified 2026-08-08

The same fee for every other jurisdiction sits on one page: foreign qualification fees for every jurisdiction.

Who can be 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

Allowed

in the state's words Natural person who is a resident of this state

cga.ct.gov

The LLC as its own agent

Allowed

cga.ct.gov

A mailbox service as the address

not read at this pin

Address rule

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

cga.ct.gov

one record, verified 2026-08-10

The same four answers for every other jurisdiction sit on one page: registered agent rules for every jurisdiction.

What happens if you don't file the Connecticut annual report?

A missed report has its own record in Connecticut: the penalty, the dissolution clock, and the way back. No late fee is published, and that is a checked finding rather than a gap.

Late filing penalty

none published

The state can still dissolve the LLC by administrative action, so a missing fee is not an all-clear.

business.ct.gov
Administrative dissolution

after 12 months of delinquency

The first stage the state publishes, in its own unit: after this interval the state may dissolve the LLC by administrative action.

cga.ct.gov
Reinstatement

$120

as the record reads A $120 certificate of reinstatement, which must be accompanied by payment of all penalties and forfeitures incurred, an annual report for the current year and an appointment of a registered agent; reinstatement may be applied for at any time after dissolution.

cga.ct.gov

one record, verified 2026-08-10

The same three answers for every other jurisdiction sit on one page: late fees and reinstatement 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
Expedited service and processing time https://business.ct.gov/knowledge-base/articles/expedited-services
Naming statute https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_613a.htm
DBA filing https://business.ct.gov/knowledge-base/articles/trade-names?language=en_US
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.

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