Formation fee
$50
last verified 2026-09-03
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New Mexico LLC
New Mexico charges no yearly LLC filing
New Mexico forms an LLC for a one-time fee and then files no LLC annual report at all, an absence checked and verified rather than missing. No recurring state tax follows either, confirmed the same way against the tax agency. Member names never reach the public formation record, an anonymity the sheet marks as available.
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The gap a reader misreads is the trade name: no statewide register exists for a name a business trades under, so nothing is filed, nothing is screened, and nothing expires. A name in daily use can therefore look clear in the entity search without being free. The state also sells no expedited service, another verified absence on this sheet.
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Should you form your LLC in New Mexico?
If the answer is yes, the home-state rule points to New Mexico.
Office or storefront in New Mexico?
Yes, it will
A business with a real footprint in New Mexico files in New Mexico. 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
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Annual report
none
This state files no LLC annual report. The absence is verified, not missing data.
verified absent 2026-09-03
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
available
Members stay off the public formation record in this state.
last verified 2026-08-10
Processing time
filings from 2026-07-16
The office publishes the date it is working through rather than a duration, and on that reading it was at 2026-07-16. This state sells no expedited service.
as observed on 2026-08-06
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."
Statute: NMSA 1978 § 53-19-3(A).
last verified 2026-08-04
Name reservation
$20
Optional filing that holds the name for 120 days before you form.
last verified 2026-08-04
DBA
none
No statewide DBA filing exists in this state.
verified absent 2026-08-04
An individual as the agent
allowed
Whether a person may hold the seat, so nobody has to be hired. The terms New Mexico attaches, and the entity question, sit in the registered agent section.
last verified 2026-08-10
Late filing penalty
none
No late fee is published for a missed report, and that is a checked finding rather than a gap. It is not an all-clear: the state can still dissolve the LLC by administrative action, and section 09 carries that record.
verified absent 2026-08-11
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 Mexico DBA rules?
New Mexico runs no statewide register for a name a business trades under, and the absence is verified rather than unread. What follows is what that means in practice.
- Where an LLC files
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No state office. New Mexico provides no method to register a DBA or trade name at the state level; a business simply uses the name.
- What the filing protects
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no exclusive right
With no DBA registration available, trading under another name in New Mexico creates no state record and no rights in the name. Nothing is checked for conflicts, and the name never enters a state index. The Trademark Act is not a substitute: NMSA 1978 § 57-3B-3(C) defines a registrable "mark" as a trademark or service mark, and § 57-3B-4 tests registrability only against the goods or services of others, so a name used to identify a business as such is outside it.
- Where to search existing names
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none published
New Mexico has no statewide DBA index. The Secretary of State's business search lists formed entities only, so a trade name in daily use can look clear in the state search.
- How long it lasts nothing is filed, so nothing runs out
- Newspaper publication there is no filing to publish notice of
one record, verified 2026-08-04 · NMSA 1978 §§ 57-3-1 to 57-3-12 (repealed 1997; no trade name registration exists)
What does it take to register a foreign LLC in New Mexico?
Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in New Mexico. 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 statutory fee of $100.00 for issuing a registration to a foreign limited liability company (NMSA 1978, Section 53-19-63(K)). Amending the registration costs $50.00 and cancelling it $25.00 under the same section.
- The official form
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Application for registration as a foreign limited liability company
- Filed with
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New Mexico Secretary of State
- After registration
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Maintain a New Mexico registered office and a registered agent for service of process, and file a statement with the Secretary of State when either changes; failing either for thirty days is grounds for administrative revocation. New Mexico charges no annual report fee for an LLC.
one record, verified 2026-08-09
The same fee for every other jurisdiction sits on one page: foreign qualification fees for every jurisdiction.
Who can be the registered agent in New Mexico?
Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in New Mexico. New Mexico 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 an individual resident of New Mexico
- 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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a registered office that may be the same as the limited liability company's principal place of business
one record, verified 2026-08-10
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 New Mexico annual report?
A missed report has its own record in New Mexico: the penalty, the dissolution clock, and the way back. No late fee is published, and that is a checked finding rather than a gap.
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Late filing penalty
none published
The state can still dissolve the LLC by administrative action, so a missing fee is not an all-clear.
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Administrative dissolution
not read at this pin
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Reinstatement
no single figure
as the record reads Reinstatement is available within two years of an administrative revocation and the LLC Act's complete fee list prices no reinstatement filing; the revocation it cures is a registered-agent one, since New Mexico imposes no recurring report.
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.
- Formation and annual report figures https://www.sos.nm.gov/business-services/
- Recurring state tax https://www.tax.newmexico.gov/businesses/corporate-income-franchise-tax-overview/
- Expedited service and processing time https://enterprise.sos.nm.gov/api/ProcessedThroughDate/GetAll
- Naming statute https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18556/index.do
- Name reservation https://enterprise.sos.nm.gov/
- Foreign LLC registration https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/18556/1/document.do
- Who may be the registered agent https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa/en/4400/1/document.do
- DBA filing https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18560/index.do
- Business entity search https://enterprise.sos.nm.gov/search/business
The rule behind every figure here, and what a card does when one cannot be verified, sits on how a figure gets verified.