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Mississippi LLC

oldest record on this page verified 2026-07-17

sources: linked on each field, listed in full below

Mississippi writes its naming register as notice only

Mississippi's Business Services Division takes the formation filing, and an annual report follows each spring carrying no fee for a domestic company. The franchise tax line is a verified absence on this record. Neither an expedited lane nor a standard processing time is published by the office, and each of those absences was checked rather than left blank.

the rest of this note

The fictitious business name registers at state level for a set term, and the statute spells out what it buys: public notice only, no presumption of an exclusive right, no effect on name rights others already hold. Any individual or company with a physical address in the state may hold the registered agent seat. That one sentence doubles as the state's address rule.

every claim above is a line below

Formation fee

$50

One-time state fee for the formation certificate.

last verified 2026-07-17

sos.ms.gov

Annual report

Due Jan 1 - Apr 15, printed as the state writes it.

last verified 2026-07-17

sos.ms.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 2026-08-09

dor.ms.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 2026-08-07

no source in the snapshot

Name designators

Must contain the words "limited liability company" or the abbreviation "L.L.C." or "LLC." Mississippi does not accept "limited company," "L.C.," or "LC." The name may contain the name of a member or manager.

Accepted endings for the legal name. Statute: Miss. Code § 79-29-109(1)(a).

last verified 2026-08-06

law.justia.com

Name reservation

$25

Optional filing that holds the name for 180 days, renewable once before you form.

last verified 2026-08-06

corp.sos.ms.gov

DBA

fictitious business name

One statewide register; the filing costs $25.

last verified 2026-08-06

corp.sos.ms.gov

An individual as the agent

allowed

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

last verified 2026-08-09

sos.ms.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 Mississippi trade name rules?

Mississippi calls it the fictitious business name, and keeps one statewide register for it. The state filing costs $25.

Where an LLC files

corp.sos.ms.gov

How long it lasts

5 years

The registration period is five years, and the registration expires on December 31 of the year in which its fifth anniversary falls rather than on the anniversary itself. A renewal may be filed at any time between January 1 and December 31 of that expiration year, and a timely renewal continues the registration for a further five years. If it is not renewed by December 31 of the expiration year the registration expires, and the Secretary of State removes and may purge it. Miss. Code § 75-93-11.

Newspaper publication

not required

What the filing protects

no exclusive right

Miss. Code § 75-93-13 is explicit: registration is for public notice only, gives rise to no presumption of an exclusive right to own or use the name, does not affect trademark, service mark, trade name or other name rights previously acquired by others in the same or a similar name, and does not preserve the name against future use or registration by anyone else. The application itself must carry the filer's acknowledgment of that (§ 75-93-7(1)(f)), and § 75-93-7(4) bars the Secretary of State from refusing a registration on the ground that the name is indistinguishable from an existing fictitious business name, registered trademark or entity name.

Where to search existing names

corp.sos.ms.gov

Registered fictitious business names are searchable through the Secretary of State's online business search, and § 75-93-27 requires the office to keep the register open to public examination. Because § 75-93-7(4) forbids refusing a name for being indistinguishable from one already on file, a clear search result is not evidence that the name is free to use.

one record, verified 2026-08-06 · Miss. Code § 75-93-7

law.justia.com

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

Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Mississippi. The registration costs $250. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.

Registration fee

$250

Flat $250.00 filing fee for the Application for Registration of Foreign LLC on the Secretary of State's Services & Fees Schedule (Revised October 2024).

sos.ms.gov

The official form

Application for Registration of Foreign LLC

sos.ms.gov

Filed with

Mississippi Secretary of State's Office, Business Services

sos.ms.gov

After registration

File the foreign LLC annual report with the Secretary of State, which the Services & Fees Schedule prices at $250.00 (a Mississippi LLC's own annual report carries no fee); the report may be filed on or after January 1 and is due by April 15 of that year, and all annual reports must be filed online.

sos.ms.gov

one record, verified 2026-08-09

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 Mississippi?

Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Mississippi. Mississippi 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 Any individual, corporation or LLC may act as registered agent for any Mississippi company provided the agent has a physical address in the state of Mississippi.

sos.ms.gov

The LLC as its own agent

Allowed

sos.ms.gov

A mailbox service as the address

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Address rule

Any individual, corporation or LLC may act as registered agent for any Mississippi company provided the agent has a physical address in the state of Mississippi.

sos.ms.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.sos.ms.gov/sites/default/files/fees_and_forms/Services%20%26%20Fees%20Document.pdf
Recurring state tax https://www.dor.ms.gov/business/business-tax-frequently-asked-questions
Naming statute https://law.justia.com/codes/mississippi/title-79/chapter-29/article-1/section-79-29-109/
Name reservation https://corp.sos.ms.gov/corp/portal/c/page/corpnewfilings/portal.aspx
Who may be the registered agent https://www.sos.ms.gov/business-services-external-affairs/registered-agents
Mississippi Secretary of State Business Services https://www.sos.ms.gov/business-services
Business entity search https://corp.sos.ms.gov/corp/portal/c/page/corpBusinessIdSearch/portal.aspx

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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