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New York LLC

oldest record on this page verified 2026-07-23

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New York's separate filing fee scales with revenue

The Department of State receives the articles of organization, prices expedited formation, and publishes no standard processing time. The report it charges for is biennial, falling in the anniversary month. An assumed name splits by filer here: the LLC version is a state filing that stays effective until amended or cancelled.

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Beyond the biennial statement sits a separate annual filing fee collected by the Department of Taxation and Finance. That charge scales with revenue and carries no annual minimum, which is why its card wears a badge instead of an amount. Overlooking this second obligation is the easiest mistake the record corrects.

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Should you form your LLC in New York?

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

Office or storefront in New York?

Yes, it will

A business with a real footprint in New York files in New York. 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 .

Formation fee

$200

last verified 2026-09-05

dos.ny.gov

Annual report

Due Anniversary month (Biennial), printed as the state writes it.

last verified 2026-09-05

dos.ny.gov

Franchise tax

scales with revenue

New York calls it the Partnership, LLC, and LLP annual filing fee, collected by Department of Taxation and Finance. It follows revenue with no annual minimum, so no yearly figure can stand in for it.

last verified 2026-08-08

tax.ny.gov

Anonymous LLC

available

Members stay off the public formation record in this state.

last verified 2026-08-10

nysenate.gov

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 2026-08-07

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Name designators

Must contain the words "Limited Liability Company" in full, or the abbreviation "L.L.C." or "LLC."

Statute: N.Y. LLC Law § 204(a).

last verified 2026-07-23

nysenate.gov

Name reservation

$20

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

last verified 2026-07-23

dos.ny.gov

DBA

assumed name

LLCs file at the state level for $25; other business forms file with the county.

last verified 2026-08-09

dos.ny.gov

An individual as the agent

allowed

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

last verified 2026-08-10

nysenate.gov

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

dos.ny.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 New York DBA rules?

New York calls it the assumed name, and splits the filing: an LLC registers with the state, while other business forms file locally. The state filing costs $25.

Where an LLC files

dos.ny.gov

How long it lasts

Indefinite

The certificate stays effective until it is amended or cancelled; there is no periodic renewal. A certified copy must be displayed at the premises where the business is conducted.

Newspaper publication

not required

What the filing protects

no exclusive right

A Certificate of Assumed Name lets an LLC operate under a name other than its true legal name. It is a disclosure filing and does not by itself grant an exclusive right to the assumed name; the distinguishability protection New York gives on its index attaches to the LLC's true legal name.

Where to search existing names

apps.dos.ny.gov

Assumed names filed by LLCs and corporations sit in the Department of State's Corporation and Business Entity Database, searchable alongside entities. Assumed-name certificates filed by sole proprietors and partnerships are held by each county clerk and are not in the state database.

one record, verified 2026-08-09 · N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 130

nysenate.gov

What does it take to register a foreign LLC in New York?

Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in New York. The registration costs $250. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.

Registration fee

$250

Flat $250.00 filing fee for the Application for Authority of a foreign limited liability company (Limited Liability Company Law Section 802); the filing instructions page and the official form PDF both state $250.00, and the instructions direct the completed application to the Department of State, Division of Corporations, by mail.

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The official form

Application for Authority for a Foreign Limited Liability Company (Form DOS-1361-f-a)

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Filed with

New York Department of State, Division of Corporations, State Records and Uniform Commercial Code

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After registration

File a Biennial Statement with the Department of State every two years (LLC Law Section 301(e)) and publish a notice of the application within 120 days of filing.

dos.ny.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 can be the registered agent in New York?

Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in New York. New York lets a natural person serve, so no commercial agent is required. The LLC itself may also hold the seat.

An individual as the agent

Allowed

in the state's words a natural person who is a resident of this state or has a business address in this state

nysenate.gov

The LLC as its own agent

Allowed

nysenate.gov

A mailbox service as the address

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Address rule

file on forms prescribed by the secretary of state, a statement setting forth the post office address within or without this state to which the secretary of state shall mail a copy of any process accepted against it served upon him or her

nysenate.gov

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 York annual report?

A missed report has its own record in New York: the penalty, the dissolution clock, and the way back. No late fee is published, and that is a checked finding rather than a gap.

Late filing penalty

none published

The state can still dissolve the LLC by administrative action, so a missing fee is not an all-clear.

dos.ny.gov
Administrative dissolution

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Reinstatement

no single figure

as the record reads There is nothing to reinstate: a past due LLC files the missed Biennial Statement at the ordinary $9 fee, online or on a paper form requested from the Statement Unit, and the past due status clears.

dos.ny.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.

Formation and annual report figures https://dos.ny.gov/fee-schedules
Recurring tax: Department of Taxation and Finance https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/efile/annual_filing_fee.htm
Naming statute https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LLC/204
Name reservation https://dos.ny.gov/application-reservation-name-domestic-and-foreign-limited-liability-companies
Foreign LLC registration https://dos.ny.gov/application-authority-foreign-limited-liability-companies
Who may be the registered agent https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LLC/302
Registered agent rules https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LLC/301
Annual report late fee https://dos.ny.gov/biennial-statements-business-corporations-and-limited-liability-companies
Anonymous LLC statute https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LLC/203
DBA filing https://dos.ny.gov/certificate-assumed-name-domestic-and-foreign-limited-liability-companies-0
New York Department of State Division of Corporations https://dos.ny.gov/division-corporations-state-records-and-uniform-commercial-code
Business entity search https://apps.dos.ny.gov/publicInquiry/

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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