Formation fee
$50
One-time state fee for the formation certificate.
last verified 2026-07-17
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Michigan LLC
Michigan prices speed by the hour
Michigan runs its LLC filings through the licensing agency, LARA, and collects an annual statement due in the middle of February. The register carries no recurring entity tax, an absence verified against the state. What the office never publishes is a standard processing time, and the sheet records that gap instead of guessing one.
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Expedited review is the distinctive purchase: the fee schedule sells lanes labelled by the hour as well as by the day, each priced per document. The assumed name files with the same agency and runs to a fixed year-end expiry rather than a formation anniversary. The company may act as its own agent, and an individual agent must be a resident whose office matches the registered office.
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Annual report
$25
Due Feb 15, 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
none published
This state publishes no standard processing time, which is not the same as filing instantly. Expedited formation starts at $50.
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.," "LLC," "L.C.," or "LC" (periods and punctuation optional). A low-profit LLC uses "low-profit limited liability company" or the abbreviation "L3C."
Accepted endings for the legal name. Statute: MCL 450.4204(1), (2).
last verified 2026-08-04
Name reservation
$25
Optional filing that holds the name for Until the end of the sixth full calendar month after the month of filing (LARA's own page rounds this to 180 days; re-reservable by filing another application and fee) before you form.
last verified 2026-08-04
DBA
assumed name
LLCs file at the state level for $25; other business forms file with the county.
last verified 2026-08-04
An individual as the agent
allowed
Whether a person may hold the seat, so nobody has to be hired. The terms Michigan attaches, and the entity question, sit in the registered agent section.
last verified 2026-08-09
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What are the Michigan trade name rules?
Michigan calls it the assumed name, and splits the filing: an LLC registers with the state, while other business forms file locally. The state filing costs $25.
- Where an LLC files
- How long it lasts
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Through December 31 of the fifth full calendar year after filing
An LLC's assumed name expires on December 31 of the fifth full calendar year following the year it was filed, and may be extended for further consecutive five-year periods by filing a renewal certificate no earlier than 90 days before expiration. LARA must notify the company of the impending expiration at least 90 days out (MCL 450.4206(2), (3)).
- Newspaper publication
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not required
- What the filing protects
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no exclusive right
An assumed name lets a company trade under a different name; it is disclosure, and although it is part of the LARA name screen, it is not a trademark and grants no exclusive market right. MCL 450.4206(4) says so directly, and (5) goes further: two or more companies operating together in a partnership or joint venture may each file the same assumed name, so a Michigan assumed name is not even exclusive on the register.
- Where to search existing names
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mibusinessregistry.lara.state.mi.us
Assumed names filed by LLCs and corporations appear in the LARA business entity search. County-level assumed names for sole proprietors sit in county clerk records.
one record, verified 2026-08-04 · MCL 450.4206
What does it take to register an out-of-state LLC in Michigan?
Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Michigan. The registration costs $50. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.
- Registration fee
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$50
Flat $50.00 filing fee for the Certificate of Authority to Transact Business in Michigan (Form 760).
- The official form
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760 - Application for Certificate of Authority to Transact Business
- Filed with
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Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), Corporations Division
- After registration
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File an annual statement with the Corporations Division by February 15 each year after qualification.
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 Michigan?
Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Michigan. Michigan 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 whose business office or residence is identical with the registered office
- The LLC as its own agent
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Allowed
- A mailbox service as the address
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- Address rule
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A registered office that may, but need not be, the same as its place of business.
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.michigan.gov/lara/-/media/Project/Websites/lara/cscl/Folder6/Filing_Fees.pdf
- Recurring state tax https://www.michigan.gov/taxes/business-taxes/corporate-income-tax
- Naming statute https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-450-4204
- Name reservation https://www.michigan.gov/lara/bureau-list/cscl/corps
- Who may be the registered agent https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=MCL-450-4207
- DBA filing https://www.michigan.gov/lara/bureau-list/cscl/corps/limited-liab-part/filing-requirements/registering-in-michigan
- Business entity search https://mibusinessregistry.lara.state.mi.us/
The rule behind every figure here, and what a card does when one cannot be verified, sits on how a figure gets verified.