Formation fee
$100
One-time state fee for the formation certificate.
last verified 2026-07-17
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New Jersey LLC
The alternate name is New Jersey's LLC vocabulary
A New Jersey LLC forms through the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services and owes a yearly report due by the close of its anniversary month. The treasury pages confirm no recurring entity tax, a verified absence rather than a blank. Expedited handling is sold as a per-filing service charge while the office leaves its standard timeline unpublished.
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The naming vocabulary is what a reader trips over: an entity registers an alternate name with the state, while the trade name belongs to sole proprietors filing at the county. The state's own guidance says the registration links the name to the company without granting any exclusive right in it. Checking one register therefore never tells the whole naming story here.
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Annual report
$75
Due Last day of anniversary month, 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 2026-08-07
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 $25.
verified absent 2026-08-09
no source in the snapshot
Name designators
Must contain "limited liability company" or the abbreviation "L.L.C." or "LLC." "Limited" may be abbreviated as "Ltd." and "company" as "Co."
Accepted endings for the legal name. Statute: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-8(a).
last verified 2026-07-18
Name reservation
$50
Optional filing that holds the name for 120 days (renewable) before you form.
last verified 2026-07-18
DBA
alternate name (entities); trade name (sole proprietors, county)
LLCs file at the state level for $50; other business forms file with the county.
last verified 2026-07-18
An individual as the agent
allowed
Whether a person may hold the seat, so nobody has to be hired. The terms New Jersey 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 New Jersey trade name rules?
New Jersey calls it the alternate name (entities); trade name (sole proprietors, county), and splits the filing: an LLC registers with the state, while other business forms file locally. The state filing costs $50.
- Where an LLC files
- How long it lasts
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5 years
Renewable for further five-year periods. The renewal window opens three months before expiration and closes at the expiration date.
- Newspaper publication
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not required
- What the filing protects
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no exclusive right
The state's guidance says registration legally links the alternate name to the entity so it can trade under it; N.J.S.A. 42:2C-9 frames the filing as a precondition for using the name, not a grant of exclusive rights in it.
- Where to search existing names
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Registered alternate names live in Division records. The free public window is the Business Name Availability search, which returns a verdict and similar names; browsing the full records is New Jersey's paid Business Records Service.
one record, verified 2026-07-18 · N.J.S.A. 42:2C-9
What does it take to register an out-of-state LLC in New Jersey?
Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in New Jersey. 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 filing fee of $100.00 for the Certificate of registration for a foreign LLC; annual reports and other filings carry separate fees.
- The official form
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Certificate of registration for a foreign LLC
- Filed with
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New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services (Department of the Treasury)
- After registration
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File the annual report ($75.00) with the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services.
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 New Jersey?
Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in New Jersey. New Jersey lets a natural person serve, so no commercial agent is required.
- An individual as the agent
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Allowed
in the state's words This can be the business owner or someone else, but they need to have a New Jersey address.
- The LLC as its own agent
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not read at this pin
- A mailbox service as the address
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not read at this pin
- Address rule
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The registered agent must be located in New Jersey.
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.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/fees.shtml
- Recurring state tax https://www.nj.gov/treasury/taxation/businesses/partnerships/index.shtml
- Naming statute https://pub.njleg.gov/bills/2012/PL12/50_.PDF
- Name reservation https://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/checkbusiness.shtml
- Who may be the registered agent https://business.nj.gov/pages/register-your-business
- Registered agent rules https://nj.gov/njfilm/assets/pdf/registering-to-do-business-in-NJ.pdf
- DBA filing https://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/altname.shtml
- New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services https://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/
- Business entity search https://www.njportal.com/DOR/BusinessNameSearch/Search/BusinessName
The rule behind every figure here, and what a card does when one cannot be verified, sits on how a figure gets verified.