Formation fee
$85
One-time state fee for the formation certificate.
last verified 2026-07-17
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Kansas LLC
Kansas keeps no register of trade names
Kansas maintains no trade name register at any level of government: the office's own forms list says no application exists to register an assumed name, and this sheet records the term and fee as verified absences. A trading name here has no state record and no rights attached. The annual report ties to the company's tax year rather than a formation anniversary.
the rest of this note
Speed needs no purchase in this state: no expedited tier is sold, a checked reading, while the published statement describes online formation completing in minutes with the certified copy available at once. The franchise tax was checked against the revenue agency and marked absent. The company may serve as its own registered agent, per the cited statute.
every claim above is a line below
Annual report
$53
Due Jan 1 - Apr 15 (after tax year end), 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 2026-08-08
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
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. This state sells no expedited service.
as observed on 2026-08-07
Name designators
Must contain "limited liability company" or "limited company," the abbreviation "L.L.C." or "L.C.," or the designation "LLC" or "LC." The name may also contain the name of a member or manager.
Accepted endings for the legal name. Statute: K.S.A. 17-7920.
last verified 2026-07-18
Name reservation
$35
Optional filing that holds the name for 120 days (non-renewable) before you form.
last verified 2026-07-18
DBA
none
No statewide DBA filing exists in this state.
verified absent 2026-07-18
An individual as the agent
allowed
Whether a person may hold the seat, so nobody has to be hired. The terms Kansas 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 Kansas trade name rules?
Kansas runs no statewide register for a name a business trades under, and the absence is verified rather than unread. What follows is what that means in practice.
- Where an LLC files
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No office at any level. The Secretary of State's forms list states that no application registers an assumed, fictitious, trade, or DBA name.
- What the filing protects
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no exclusive right
With no registry, a Kansas trading name has no state record and no rights. The office's own trademark FAQ adds that even a registered mark merely puts the public on notice that the mark is in use.
- Where to search existing names
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The Business Search lists entities only; trade names do not exist as a records class in Kansas. Registered trademarks and service marks, the nearest instrument, sit in their own Trademark/Service Mark Search.
- How long it lasts nothing is filed, so nothing runs out
- Newspaper publication there is no filing to publish notice of
one record, verified 2026-07-18 · Kansas SoS forms list (no assumed-name statute or form exists)
What does it take to register an out-of-state LLC in Kansas?
Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Kansas. The registration costs $115. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.
- Registration fee
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$115
Flat filing fee of $115.00 for the Foreign Application (Form FA); foreign applications are filed by paper and information reports filed with them carry their own fees.
- The official form
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FA - Foreign Application - LLC, LLP, LP, Corporation
- Filed with
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Kansas Secretary of State, Business Services Division
- After registration
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File an information report every two years and maintain a resident agent in Kansas.
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 Kansas?
Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Kansas. Kansas 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 an individual resident in 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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The postal address of a registered office shall include the building and suite number, street name or rural route number with box number, city, state and zip code.
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://www.sos.ks.gov/forms/business_services/lc.pdf
- Recurring state tax https://www.ksrevenue.gov/bustaxtypesfranchise.html
- Expedited service and processing time https://sos.ks.gov/forms/business_services/DL.pdf
- Naming statute https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch17/017_079_0018.html
- Name reservation https://sos.ks.gov/forms/business_services/NR.pdf
- Foreign LLC registration https://www.sos.ks.gov/forms/business_services/FA.pdf
- Who may be the registered agent https://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/statute/017_000_0000_chapter/017_079_0000_article/017_079_0025_section/017_079_0025_k/
- Registered agent rules https://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/statute/017_000_0000_chapter/017_079_0000_article/017_079_0024_section/017_079_0024_k/
- DBA filing https://sos.ks.gov/businesses/register-a-business.html
- Kansas Secretary of State Business Services https://sos.ks.gov/businesses/businesses.html
- Business entity search https://www.sos.ks.gov/eforms/BusinessEntity/Search.aspx
The rule behind every figure here, and what a card does when one cannot be verified, sits on how a figure gets verified.