Formation fee
$155
One-time state fee for the formation certificate.
last verified 2026-07-17
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Minnesota LLC
A Minnesota assumed name must reach print
A Minnesota LLC organizes at the Secretary of State and files an annual renewal due by the end of December, collected without a fee for a domestic company. A recurring minimum fee applies on a composite base and is paid to the Department of Revenue on the company's own return schedule. In-person filings can be expedited and processed while you wait, the fee schedule's own words.
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The assumed name is where readers stumble: after the state filing it must run in a qualified newspaper for successive issues in the county of the principal office, and the registration renews yearly. It grants no exclusive right, though later names are screened against it. A natural person residing in the state may hold the agent seat, the statute's sentence printed beside the finding.
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Annual report
$0
Due Dec 31, printed as the state writes it.
last verified 2026-07-17
Franchise tax
composite measure
Minnesota calls it the Minimum fee, collected by Department of Revenue. It follows several measures at once with no annual minimum, so no yearly figure can stand in for it.
last verified 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 $20.
verified absent 2026-08-07
Name designators
Must contain the words "limited liability company" or the abbreviation "LLC." The name may not contain the word "corporation" or "incorporated," or an abbreviation of either, and may not indicate or imply a purpose other than a permitted one.
Accepted endings for the legal name. Statute: Minn. Stat. § 322C.0108, subd. 1.
last verified 2026-07-25
Name reservation
$35
Optional filing that holds the name for 12 months before you form.
last verified 2026-07-25
DBA
assumed name
One statewide register; the filing costs $50.
last verified 2026-07-25
An individual as the agent
allowed
Whether a person may hold the seat, so nobody has to be hired. The terms Minnesota attaches, and the entity question, sit in the registered agent section.
last verified 2026-08-09
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 Minnesota trade name rules?
Minnesota calls it the assumed name, and keeps one statewide register for it. The state filing costs $50.
- Where an LLC files
- How long it lasts
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Annual renewal
The certificate does not expire on its own, but it must be renewed with the Secretary of State each calendar year, beginning the year after the original filing, to stay active.
- Newspaper publication
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required
After filing, the certificate must be published in a qualified newspaper in the county where the person has a principal or registered office, for two successive issues (Minn. Stat. § 333.01).
- What the filing protects
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no exclusive right
Section 333.01 grants no exclusive right to an assumed name; filing and publishing it is a disclosure requirement. It does carry a defensive effect: assumed names on record are among the names the Secretary of State screens for distinguishability under § 322C.0108, so an active assumed name blocks a later name that is not distinguishable from it.
- Where to search existing names
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Assumed names filed with the Secretary of State appear in the state business search alongside entities, since they are part of the same distinguishability records.
one record, verified 2026-07-25 · Minn. Stat. § 333.01
What does it take to register an out-of-state LLC in Minnesota?
Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Minnesota. The registration costs $185. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.
- Registration fee
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$185
Flat statutory total fee of $185.00 for the application for a certificate of authority.
- The official form
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Application for Certificate of Authority
- Filed with
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Minnesota Secretary of State
- After registration
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File an annual renewal with the Secretary of State by December 31 of each calendar year (no fee) and maintain a registered office and agent for service of process in Minnesota.
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 Minnesota?
Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Minnesota. Minnesota 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 The registered agent may be a natural person residing 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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If the current registered office address listed in the records of the secretary of state is not an actual office location, or is solely a post office box, the business entity must provide a new registered office address that includes an actual office location and that may also include a mailing address or post office box.
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.sos.mn.gov/media/1378/businessentityfees.pdf
- Recurring tax: Department of Revenue https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/290.0922
- Expedited service and processing time https://www.sos.mn.gov/business-liens/business-forms-fees/business-filing-and-certification-fee-schedule/
- Naming statute https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/322C.0108
- Name reservation https://www.sos.state.mn.us/business-liens/business-forms-fees/business-filing-certification-fee-schedule/
- Foreign LLC registration https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/2025/cite/322C.0802
- Who may be the registered agent https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/5.36
- DBA filing https://www.sos.state.mn.us/business-liens/business-forms-fees/
- Minnesota Secretary of State Business Services https://www.sos.mn.gov/business-liens/
- Business entity search https://mblsportal.sos.mn.gov/Business/Search
The rule behind every figure here, and what a card does when one cannot be verified, sits on how a figure gets verified.