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Louisiana LLC

oldest record on this page verified 2026-08-04

sources: linked on each field, listed in full below

A registered Louisiana trade name blocks look-alikes

The Commercial Division receives Louisiana's LLC filings, prices expedited formation, and leaves its standard processing time unpublished, an absence the sheet records as verified. The annual report comes due on the anniversary date, in the state's own words. No recurring state tax reaches an LLC, a fact checked with the revenue agency.

the rest of this note

The trade name is where expectations break: registration grants no exclusive right, because the state's infringement remedies attach to marks, yet the certificate enters the same distinguishability records as entity names. An active registration therefore blocks a later entity name that cannot be told apart from it, and the screen runs in both directions. There is no separate parish index to check.

every claim above is a line below

Should you form your LLC in Louisiana?

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

Office or storefront in Louisiana?

Yes, it will

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

$30

Due Anniversary date, printed as the state writes it.

last verified 2026-08-22

sos.la.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

revenue.louisiana.gov

Anonymous LLC

no

Member or organizer names reach the public formation record here.

last verified 2026-08-10

legis.la.gov

Processing time

none published

This state publishes no standard processing time, which is not the same as filing instantly. Expedited formation starts at $30.

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 "L.C." A low-profit LLC must contain "low-profit limited liability company" or the abbreviation "L3C" or "l3c." The name may not contain the phrase "doing business as" or the abbreviation "d/b/a."

Statute: La. R.S. 12:1306(A)(1).

last verified 2026-08-04

legis.la.gov

Name reservation

$25

Optional filing that holds the name for 120 days (non-renewable) before you form.

last verified 2026-08-04

sos.la.gov

An individual as the agent

allowed

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

last verified 2026-08-09

sos.la.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

sos.la.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 Louisiana DBA rules?

Louisiana calls it the trade name, and keeps one statewide register for it. The state filing costs $75.

Where an LLC files

geauxbiz.sos.la.gov

How long it lasts

10 years

Registration is effective for ten years from the date of registration and may be renewed for successive ten-year terms on an application filed within the six months before the term expires. After expiry the previous registrant may still renew at any time, while anyone else must first give the former registrant sixty days' notice by certified mail.

Newspaper publication

not required

What the filing protects

no exclusive right

A trade name registration is a notice filing. Louisiana's infringement action and its remedies under La. R.S. 51:222 and 51:223 run to the owner of a registered mark, and R.S. 51:211(C) defines a mark as a trademark or service mark, which a trade name (defined separately in (D)) is not. The registration does carry a practical effect at the state level in both directions: R.S. 51:215(A)(1) lets the Secretary of State issue the certificate only if the trade name is distinguishable from, or not the same as, a trade name, LLC, partnership, or corporate name already in use, and R.S. 12:1306(A)(3) screens new entity names against registered trade names, so an active registration blocks a later name that is not distinguishable from it.

Where to search existing names

coraweb.sos.la.gov

Trade names registered with the Secretary of State appear in the same Commercial Division records search as entities, since they are part of the § 1306 distinguishability records. Louisiana keeps DBA filings entirely at the state level, so there is no separate parish (county) index to check.

one record, verified 2026-08-04 · La. R.S. 51:214

legis.la.gov

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

Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Louisiana. The registration costs $150. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.

Registration fee

$150

Flat $150.00 filing fee for Form #972, Application of Foreign Limited Liability Company; credit-card payments add a $5.00 convenience fee.

sos.la.gov

The official form

Application of Foreign Limited Liability Company (Form #972)

sos.la.gov

Filed with

Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division

sos.la.gov

After registration

File the annual report ($30.00) and maintain a registered agent in Louisiana.

sos.la.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 Louisiana?

Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Louisiana. Louisiana lets a natural person serve, so no commercial agent is required.

An individual as the agent

Allowed

in the state's words An agent, or as it is sometimes called, registered agent, can be almost anyone of legal age and a legal resident of Louisiana.

sos.la.gov

The LLC as its own agent

not read at this pin

A mailbox service as the address

not read at this pin

Address rule

All business registrations with the Secretary of State require, by law, an agent with a physical address in Louisiana.

sos.la.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.

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

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

  1. Late filing penalty

    none published

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

    sos.la.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.

    legis.la.gov

  3. Reinstatement

    $100

    as the record reads A $100 reinstatement filing under R.S. 49:222(A)(2)(c), submitted with an application signed by a member or manager and the company's current annual report, and available only within three years of the effective date of the revocation.

    legis.la.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.

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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