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LLC STATES

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record 25 of 51 · /llc/missouri/

Missouri LLC

oldest record on this page verified 2026-07-17

sources: linked on each field, listed in full below

No yearly report reaches Missouri's register

Missouri's Secretary of State forms the company and then asks for no yearly report of any kind: the sheet carries both the report fee and its due date as verified absences, checked against the office. No recurring entity tax applies either. The office sells no expedited lane, though its page notes that many online filings process immediately after submission.

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The fictitious name is a state filing with a set term that creates no substantive rights; it also sits outside the entity name screen, so it neither blocks a later name nor is blocked by one. The company may not serve as its own registered agent, a researched refusal with its citation. A resident individual may hold the seat.

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Formation fee

$50

One-time state fee for the formation certificate.

last verified 2026-07-17

sos.mo.gov

Annual report

none

This state files no LLC annual report. The absence is verified, not missing data.

verified absent 2026-07-17

sos.mo.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

revisor.mo.gov

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. This state sells no expedited service.

verified absent 2026-08-07

sos.mo.gov

Name designators

Must contain the words "limited company" or "limited liability company," or the abbreviations "LC," "L.C.," "LLC," or "L.L.C." The name may not contain "corporation," "incorporated," "limited partnership," "limited liability partnership," "limited liability limited partnership," "Ltd.," or an abbreviation of those.

Accepted endings for the legal name. Statute: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 347.020.

last verified 2026-07-23

revisor.mo.gov

Name reservation

$25

Optional filing that holds the name for 60 days before you form.

last verified 2026-07-23

sos.mo.gov

DBA

fictitious name

One statewide register; the filing costs $7.

last verified 2026-07-23

bsd.sos.mo.gov

An individual as the agent

allowed

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

last verified 2026-08-09

revisor.mo.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 Missouri trade name rules?

Missouri calls it the fictitious name, and keeps one statewide register for it. The state filing costs $7.

Where an LLC files

bsd.sos.mo.gov

How long it lasts

5 years

A fictitious name registration is effective for five years and is renewed for successive five-year terms.

Newspaper publication

not required

What the filing protects

no exclusive right

Missouri law is explicit that registering a fictitious name creates no substantive rights and gives no exclusive claim to the name; it is a disclosure filing only. It is also separate from the entity-name distinguishability records, so a fictitious name neither blocks nor is blocked by names in the corporations index.

Where to search existing names

bsd.sos.mo.gov

Fictitious names are searchable in the Secretary of State's business search alongside entities, but because the registration confers no rights, finding one does not by itself stop another owner from registering the same fictitious name.

one record, verified 2026-07-23 · Mo. Rev. Stat. § 417.200

revisor.mo.gov

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

Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Missouri. The registration costs $105. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.

Registration fee

$105

Flat $105.00 filing fee for the Application for Registration of a Foreign Limited Liability Company (LLC 4): the Schedule of Fees prices 'Certificates of Limited Liability Company (domestic/foreign)(paper)' at $105.00 and the form itself is submitted with a $105.00 filing fee. The $50.00 online row on the same schedule is domestic only, and the schedule states that electronic payments add a convenience fee the State of Missouri does not collect or retain.

sos.mo.gov

The official form

Application for Registration of a Foreign Limited Liability Company (LLC 4)

sos.mo.gov

Filed with

Missouri Secretary of State, Corporations Division

sos.mo.gov

After registration

Maintain a registered agent with a Missouri street address: the Secretary of State is appointed agent for service of process if the company fails to maintain one, and that failure is grounds to cancel the foreign registration.

sos.mo.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 may serve as the registered agent in Missouri?

Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Missouri. Missouri lets a natural person serve, so no commercial agent is required. The LLC itself may not hold the seat, which is a separate question.

An individual as the agent

Allowed

in the state's words an individual, resident of this state, whose business office is identical with such registered office

revisor.mo.gov

The LLC as its own agent

Not allowed

revisor.mo.gov

A mailbox service as the address

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Address rule

A registered office which may be, but need not be, the same as a place of its business in this state

revisor.mo.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.

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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