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Indiana LLC

oldest record on this page verified 2026-08-04

sources: linked on each field, listed in full below

Indiana reports every other year, not yearly

Indiana's business entity report is biennial, due at the end of the anniversary month every other year, and no recurring state tax follows it, an absence confirmed against the state code. The office neither sells expedited service nor publishes a standard processing time; the sheet records both as verified readings rather than blanks. Formation itself files through the state's online portal.

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The registered agent section holds this record's most distinctive finding: an address from a commercial mail receiving agency is researched as allowed, with the statute cited, and the company may also act as its own agent. An assumed business name, once filed, simply persists until a discontinuance is filed. Nothing about it renews or expires on a clock.

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Formation fee

$95

One-time state fee for the formation certificate.

last verified 2026-08-06

in.gov

Annual report

$32

Due End of anniversary month (Biennial), printed as the state writes it.

last verified 2026-08-06

in.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

iga.in.gov

Anonymous LLC

Member or organizer names reach the public formation record here.

last verified 2026-08-06

no source in the snapshot

Processing time

none published

This state publishes no standard processing time, which is not the same as filing instantly. This state sells no expedited service.

verified absent 2026-08-09

no source in the snapshot

Name designators

Must contain the words "limited liability company" or the abbreviation "L.L.C." or "LLC." Indiana does not offer the "limited company"/"LC" variants that some states allow.

Accepted endings for the legal name. Statute: Ind. Code § 23-0.5-3-2(d).

last verified 2026-08-04

iga.in.gov

Name reservation

$10

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

last verified 2026-08-04

inbiz.in.gov

DBA

assumed business name

LLCs file at the state level for $20; other business forms file with the county.

last verified 2026-08-04

inbiz.in.gov

An individual as the agent

allowed

Whether a person may hold the seat, so nobody has to be hired. The terms Indiana attaches, and the entity question, sit in the registered agent section.

last verified 2026-08-09

iga.in.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 Indiana trade name rules?

Indiana calls it the assumed business name, and splits the filing: an LLC registers with the state, while other business forms file locally. The state filing costs $20.

Where an LLC files

inbiz.in.gov

How long it lasts

Perpetual (no expiration)

An assumed business name does not expire and is not renewed; it stays in effect until the entity files a notice of discontinuance (no fee by mail, $2 online).

Newspaper publication

not required

What the filing protects

no exclusive right

Registering an assumed business name discloses the name an entity trades under; it grants no exclusive trademark right. It carries a practical effect at the state level: a registered assumed business name is part of the § 23-0.5-3-1 distinguishability records, so it blocks a later entity or assumed name that is not distinguishable from it while active. County-recorded assumed names filed by sole proprietors carry no statewide protection and are not centrally indexed.

Where to search existing names

bsd.sos.in.gov

Assumed business names adopted by LLCs and corporations appear in the Secretary of State's INBiz business search alongside the entities, because they share the state entity records. County-recorded assumed names for sole proprietors and general partnerships sit in each county recorder's office and are not in the state search.

one record, verified 2026-08-04 · Ind. Code § 23-0.5-3-4

iga.in.gov

What does it take to register an out-of-state LLC in Indiana?

Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Indiana. The registration costs $75. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.

Registration fee

$75

Flat statutory filing fee of $75.00 for filing a foreign registration statement electronically for a for-profit entity (IC 23-0.5-9-26(a)(1)); filing in a manner other than electronically costs $125.00 (IC 23-0.5-9-26(b)(1)), and the electronic path through the INBiz portal is the common one.

iga.in.gov

The official form

Foreign Registration Statement

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Filed with

Indiana Secretary of State

iga.in.gov

After registration

Deliver a biennial report to the secretary of state every two calendar years on a schedule the secretary of state determines (IC 23-0.5-2-13(c); $20.00 electronic for a for-profit entity under IC 23-0.5-9-34(a)(1)), and designate and maintain a registered agent in Indiana as a registered foreign entity (IC 23-0.5-4-1(a)(2)).

iga.in.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 may serve as the registered agent in Indiana?

Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Indiana. Indiana 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 A registered agent must be an individual, a general partnership, a domestic filing entity, or a registered foreign entity.

iga.in.gov

The LLC as its own agent

Allowed

iga.in.gov

A mailbox service as the address

Accepted

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Address rule

if the entity does not have a commercial registered agent: (A) the name of the individual, general partnership, domestic filing entity, or registered foreign entity; and (B) the address of the entity's registered agent.

iga.in.gov

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.in.gov/sos/business/files/20250326-IR-075250155FNA.pdf
Recurring state tax https://iga.in.gov/ic/2026/Title_6.html
Naming statute https://iga.in.gov/laws/2025/ic/titles/23#23-0.5-3-1
Name reservation https://inbiz.in.gov
Foreign LLC registration https://iga.in.gov/ic/2026/Title_23/Article_0.5/Chapter_9.pdf
Who may be the registered agent https://iga.in.gov/laws/2026/ic/titles/23#23-0.5-4-3
Business entity search https://bsd.sos.in.gov/publicbusinesssearch

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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