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Nevada LLC

oldest record on this page verified 2026-07-23

sources: linked on each field, listed in full below

Nevada folds its business license into the report

Nevada prices its formation filing at the Secretary of State and posts the mail queue date it is working through, with expedited formation on offer. Member and organizer names reach the public formation record, so anonymity is marked unavailable here. The recurring charge is called the state business license and carries a published floor.

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That license money is already inside the annual report figure, which is why the sheet counts it once and never twice. The fictitious firm name belongs to each county clerk rather than the state office, and it stands outside the entity name screen: it neither blocks nor is blocked by names on the state's records. A complete name check therefore means county records, not one statewide search.

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Should you form your LLC in Nevada?

If the answer is yes, the home-state rule points to Nevada.

Office or storefront in Nevada?

Yes, it will

A business with a real footprint in Nevada files in Nevada. Forming anywhere else adds a foreign registration back home: two filings, two annual bills, two registered agents. The out-of-state discount does not survive that arithmetic.

No, it will not

This one answer cannot choose a state. Use the full four-question wizard with the place where the business will actually operate. Open the full wizard .

Annual report

$350

Due End of anniversary month, printed as the state writes it.

last verified 2026-09-05

nvsos.gov

Franchise tax

from $200

Nevada calls it the State Business License, collected by Office of the Secretary of State. That money is already inside the annual report figure in field 02, so this sheet counts it once and not twice.

last verified 2026-08-08

leg.state.nv.us

Anonymous LLC

no

Member or organizer names reach the public formation record here.

last verified 2026-08-10

leg.state.nv.us

Processing time

filings from 2026-07-30

The office publishes the date it is working through rather than a duration, and on that reading it was at 2026-07-30. Expedited formation starts at $125.

as observed on 2026-08-07

nvsos.gov

Name designators

Must contain the words "Limited-Liability Company," "Limited Liability Company," "Limited Company," or "Limited," or the abbreviations "Ltd.," "L.L.C.," "L.C.," "LLC," or "LC." The word "Company" may be abbreviated "Co."

Statute: NRS 86.171.

last verified 2026-07-23

leg.state.nv.us

Name reservation

$25

Optional filing that holds the name for 90 days before you form.

last verified 2026-07-23

nvsos.gov

DBA

fictitious firm name

Filed with the county clerk, and each county prices its own filing.

last verified 2026-07-23

nvsos.gov

Late filing penalty

$75

Nevada charges this as a flat penalty on a late report. What follows a missed filing is in section 09.

last verified 2026-08-11

leg.state.nv.us

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 Nevada DBA rules?

Nevada calls it the fictitious firm name, and handles it at the county level, so the price and the paperwork are set locally rather than by the state.

Where an LLC files

nvsos.gov

How long it lasts

5 years

A fictitious firm name certificate is effective for five years and is renewed by filing a new certificate with the county clerk.

Newspaper publication

not required

What the filing protects

no exclusive right

A fictitious firm name is a county-level notice filing that discloses who is behind a business name; it grants no exclusive right. Because it is filed with the county clerk and not the Secretary of State, it is not part of the state entity-name distinguishability screen, so a fictitious firm name neither blocks nor is blocked by names on the Secretary of State's records.

Where to search existing names

nvsos.gov

Fictitious firm names are held in each county clerk's records, not in the Secretary of State's business search, so a full check means searching the clerk in every county where a business operates. The Secretary of State publishes a directory of county clerk contacts for this purpose.

one record, verified 2026-07-23 · NRS 602.010

leg.state.nv.us

What does it take to register a foreign LLC in Nevada?

Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Nevada. The registration costs $425. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.

Registration fee

$425

Total $425.00 common-path filing cost for a foreign limited-liability company: $75.00 statutory registration fee (NRS 86.561(1)(a)) plus the $150.00 initial list fee due at the time of the application (NRS 86.5461(1), (3)(a)) plus the $200.00 state business license fee due when the initial list is filed (NRS 76.100(1)(a), (2)(c)); the Secretary of State's LLC fee schedule prices the registration, the initial list and the business license at $75.00, $150.00 and $200.00.

leg.state.nv.us

The official form

Application for Registration as a Foreign Limited-Liability Company (NRS 86.544)

leg.state.nv.us

Filed with

Nevada Secretary of State

leg.state.nv.us

After registration

File an annual list and renew the state business license each year on or before the last day of the month containing the anniversary of qualification (NRS 86.5461(1), (3)(b); NRS 76.130(1)), and maintain a registered agent in Nevada (NRS 86.544(2)(d)).

leg.state.nv.us

one record, verified 2026-08-08

The same fee for every other jurisdiction sits on one page: foreign qualification fees for every jurisdiction.

Who can be the registered agent in Nevada?

Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Nevada. Nevada lets a natural person serve, so no commercial agent is required.

An individual as the agent

Allowed

in the state's words An individual or a domestic or foreign entity that serves in this State as the agent for service of process of an entity

leg.state.nv.us

The LLC as its own agent

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A mailbox service as the address

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Address rule

An actual street address or rural route box number in this State; and A mailing address in this State, if different from the address under subsection 1.

leg.state.nv.us

one record, verified 2026-08-09

The same four answers for every other jurisdiction sit on one page: registered agent rules for every jurisdiction.

What happens if you don't file the Nevada annual report?

A missed report has its own record in Nevada: the penalty, the dissolution clock, and the way back. The penalty is a single flat figure.

  1. Late filing penalty

    $75

    leg.state.nv.us

  2. Administrative dissolution

    after 12 months of delinquency

    The first stage the state publishes, in its own unit: after this interval the state may dissolve the LLC by administrative action.

    leg.state.nv.us

  3. Reinstatement

    $300

    as the record reads A $300 reinstatement fee, on top of the annual list filing fee and the $75 penalty for each year or portion of a year the list was not filed; a charter that has stayed revoked for five consecutive years cannot be reinstated at all.

    nvsos.gov

one record, verified 2026-08-11

The same three answers for every other jurisdiction sit on one page: late fees and reinstatement 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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