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Delaware LLC

oldest record on this page verified 2026-08-04

sources: linked on each field, listed in full below

Delaware's annual tax is the whole yearly filing

A certificate of formation at the Division of Corporations creates a Delaware LLC, and member names stay off the public record here. The office publishes no standard processing time yet sells expedited service, and whether that service covers a formation filing is a question this snapshot has not read. The sheet keeps that unread question apart from the verified absence beside it.

the rest of this note

The annual tax and the annual report are the same money here, so the sheet counts the figure once rather than twice. A registered trade name follows its own track: the Division of Revenue keeps the statewide registry, the filing sits alongside a business license, and it never expires on its own.

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Should you form your LLC in Delaware?

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

Office or storefront in Delaware?

Yes, it will

A business with a real footprint in Delaware files in Delaware. 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 .

Annual report

$400

Due June 1, printed as the state writes it.

last verified 2026-08-22

corp.delaware.gov

Franchise tax

$400

Delaware calls it the Annual Tax, collected by Delaware Division of Corporations. 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

delcode.delaware.gov

Anonymous LLC

available

Members stay off the public formation record in this state.

last verified 2026-08-10

delcode.delaware.gov

Processing time

none published

This state publishes no standard processing time, which is not the same as filing instantly. It sells expedited service, and whether that covers a formation filing has not been read.

verified absent 2026-08-06

no source in the snapshot

Name designators

Must contain the words "Limited Liability Company" or the abbreviation "L.L.C." or the designation "LLC." The name may contain the name of a member or manager.

Statute: 6 Del. C. § 18-102.

last verified 2026-08-04

delcode.delaware.gov

Name reservation

$75

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

last verified 2026-08-04

corp.delaware.gov

DBA

trade, business, or fictitious name

One statewide register; the filing costs $25.

last verified 2026-08-04

onestop.delaware.gov

Late filing penalty

$200

That is the flat part only: a rate or tax penalty runs on top of it, so the bill can be larger than this figure. Section 09 carries the rest of the record.

last verified 2026-08-11

corp.delaware.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 Delaware DBA rules?

Delaware calls it the trade, business, or fictitious name, and keeps one statewide register for it. The state filing costs $25.

Where an LLC files

onestop.delaware.gov

How long it lasts

Perpetual (no expiration)

The registration stays in effect until the owner terminates it; there is no periodic renewal of the DBA itself, though the Delaware business license it sits alongside follows the standard business licence renewal cycle.

Newspaper publication

not required

What the filing protects

no exclusive right

The trade name certificate discloses who is behind a business name and grants no exclusive right to the name.

Where to search existing names

revenue.delaware.gov

The Division of Revenue publishes the statewide Trade, Business and Fictitious Names registry, refreshed daily and lagging One Stop registrations by up to 72 hours. Names registered with a county Prothonotary before February 2, 2026 remain in the Superior Court's historic database and were not migrated automatically.

one record, verified 2026-08-04 · 6 Del. C. § 3101

delcode.delaware.gov

What does it take to register a foreign LLC in Delaware?

Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Delaware. The registration costs $200. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.

Registration fee

$200

Flat state filing fee of $200.00 for the Certificate of Registration; certified copies ($50) and expedited services cost extra.

corpfiles.delaware.gov

The official form

Certificate of Registration of Foreign Limited Liability Company

corpfiles.delaware.gov

Filed with

Department of State, Division of Corporations

corpfiles.delaware.gov

After registration

Annual taxes of $400 for the foreign LLC are due by June 1 of each year following the close of the calendar year in which its registration is filed.

corpfiles.delaware.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 Delaware?

Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Delaware. Delaware 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 An individual resident in the State of Delaware

delcode.delaware.gov

The LLC as its own agent

Allowed

delcode.delaware.gov

A mailbox service as the address

Not accepted

delcode.delaware.gov

Address rule

The address of a registered agent or registered office shall include the street, number, city and postal code.

delcode.delaware.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 Delaware annual report?

A missed report has its own record in Delaware: the penalty, the dissolution clock, and the way back. The penalty has more than one part.

  1. Late filing penalty

    $200

    That is the flat part only: a rate or tax penalty runs on top of it, so the bill can be larger than this figure.

    corp.delaware.gov

  2. Administrative dissolution

    after 36 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.

    delcode.delaware.gov

  3. Reinstatement

    $180

    as the record reads A cancelled LLC is revived by filing a certificate of revival with the $180 filing fee plus the annual tax and all penalties and interest owed at the time of cancellation.

    delcode.delaware.gov

one record, verified 2026-08-11

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.

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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