Formation fee
$100
One-time state fee for the formation certificate.
last verified 2026-07-17
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Nebraska LLC
Nebraska cancels an unpublished trade name
Nebraska's report cycle is biennial, due at the start of April in odd-numbered years rather than annually. The record shows neither a recurring entity tax nor an expedited lane nor a published standard time, each absence checked against the office. Formation itself is filed with the Secretary of State.
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The trade name carries the sharpest rule on this sheet: after registration it must run once in a local newspaper, and proof of that publication must come back to the office by a stated deadline or the registration is cancelled. A registered trade name also enters the entity name screen and blocks deceptively similar later names. An individual resident may take the agent seat, and the company may hold it itself.
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Annual report
$25
Due Apr 1 (Biennial, odd years), 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 2026-08-09
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
no source in the snapshot
Name designators
Must contain the words "limited liability company" or "limited company," or the abbreviations "L.L.C.," "LLC," "L.C.," or "LC." The word "Limited" may be abbreviated "Ltd." and "Company" may be abbreviated "Co."
Accepted endings for the legal name. Statute: Neb. Rev. Stat. § 21-108(a).
last verified 2026-08-05
Name reservation
$25
Optional filing that holds the name for 120 days before you form.
last verified 2026-08-05
DBA
trade name
One statewide register; the filing costs $100.
last verified 2026-08-05
An individual as the agent
allowed
Whether a person may hold the seat, so nobody has to be hired. The terms Nebraska attaches, and the entity question, sit in the registered agent section.
last verified 2026-08-09
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What are the Nebraska trade name rules?
Nebraska calls it the trade name, and keeps one statewide register for it. The state filing costs $100.
- Where an LLC files
- How long it lasts
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10 years
A trade name registration runs ten years from the date of registration and may be renewed for successive ten-year terms, but the renewal application must be filed in duplicate within the six months before the term expires, with a $110 written or $100 electronic renewal fee and a statement that the name is still in use (Neb. Rev. Stat. § 87-211). The Secretary of State writes to the registrant's last known address during the year before expiry.
- Newspaper publication
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required
The registrant must publish the duplicate of the registration once in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city or village where the business is to be located, or, if there is no newspaper there, in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, and file proof of publication with the Secretary of State within 45 days of the date of registration. If the proof is not filed within those 45 days, the Secretary of State cancels the registration (Neb. Rev. Stat. § 87-219).
- What the filing protects
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no exclusive right
Nebraska folds registered trade names into the LLC name screen, so an active trade name blocks later entity names that are the same as or deceptively similar to it (§ 21-108), and § 87-209(6) bars registering a trade name that so resembles a registered trade name or an entity name on file as to be likely to cause confusion, mistake, or deception, unless the affected entity consents in writing and the consent is filed. A holder of an existing registration also gets a cancellation route: under § 87-219.01 it may protest a new registration within 60 days of that name's publication, and the Secretary of State cancels the new name if it violates § 87-209. The registration is still a public claim rather than a trademark, and ownership ultimately turns on actual use under common law.
- Where to search existing names
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Registered trade names appear in the Secretary of State's corporate and business name search.
one record, verified 2026-08-05 · Neb. Rev. Stat. § 87-210
What does it take to register an out-of-state LLC in Nebraska?
Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Nebraska. The registration costs $100. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.
- Registration fee
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$100
Flat $100.00 electronic filing fee for an application for a certificate of authority as a foreign limited liability company (Neb. Rev. Stat. Sec. 21-192(1)(a)); paper filing costs $110.00, so the electronic figure is the common path.
- The official form
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Application for Certificate of Authority (Neb. Rev. Stat. Sec. 21-156)
- Filed with
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Nebraska Secretary of State
- After registration
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File a biennial report with the Secretary of State between January 1 and April 1 of each odd-numbered year (Neb. Rev. Stat. Sec. 21-125) and continuously maintain an agent for service of process in Nebraska (Neb. Rev. Stat. Sec. 21-113(b)).
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 Nebraska?
Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Nebraska. Nebraska 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 must be an individual who is a resident of this state or other person with authority to transact business 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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an office, which need not be a place of its activity in this state
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://sos.nebraska.gov/business-services/forms-and-fee-information
- Recurring state tax https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=77-3802
- Naming statute https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=21-108
- Foreign LLC registration https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=21-192
- Who may be the registered agent https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=21-113
- DBA filing https://sos.nebraska.gov/sites/default/files/doc/business-services/Corporations/Forms/ApplicationforTradeName.pdf
- Nebraska Secretary of State Business Services https://sos.nebraska.gov/business-services
- Business entity search https://www.nebraska.gov/sos/corp/corpsearch.cgi
The rule behind every figure here, and what a card does when one cannot be verified, sits on how a figure gets verified.