Formation fee
$100
last verified 2026-09-03
record 37 of 51 · /llc/oregon/
Oregon LLC
Oregon rules out the mailbox agent entirely
An Oregon LLC renews itself each year on its formation anniversary, and the assumed business name it may trade under renews on its own short cycle. The Corporate Activity Tax recurs on receipts, and its return travels to the Department of Revenue on its own calendar. The state sells no expedited formation surcharge, a verified absence, and publishes a standard processing statement as a prose queue rather than a numeric range.
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The agent rule is the sharp edge: the registered office may not be a commercial mail receiving agency, a mail forwarding business or a virtual office, a researched refusal printed with its source. A resident individual whose business office is the registered office may serve, and the company qualifies for its own seat as well.
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Should you form your LLC in Oregon?
If the answer is yes, the home-state rule points to Oregon.
Office or storefront in Oregon?
Yes, it will
A business with a real footprint in Oregon files in Oregon. 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
$100
Due Anniversary date, printed as the state writes it.
last verified 2026-09-03
Franchise tax
scales with revenue
Oregon calls it the Corporate Activity Tax, collected by Oregon Department of Revenue. It follows revenue with no annual minimum, so no yearly figure can stand in for it.
last verified 2026-08-08
Anonymous LLC
no
Member or organizer names reach the public formation record here.
last verified 2026-08-10
Processing time
published, not as a range
The state publishes a processing time in prose rather than as a range, so this sheet links it instead of restating it. This state sells no expedited service.
as observed on 2026-09-09
Name designators
Must contain the words "limited liability company" or the abbreviation "L.L.C." or "LLC."
Statute: ORS 63.094(1).
last verified 2026-08-04
Name reservation
$100
Optional filing that holds the name for 120 days (nonrenewable) before you form.
last verified 2026-08-04
DBA
assumed business name
One statewide register; the filing costs $50.
last verified 2026-08-04
An individual as the agent
allowed
Whether a person may hold the seat, so nobody has to be hired. The terms Oregon 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 Oregon DBA rules?
Oregon calls it the assumed business name, and keeps one statewide register for it. The state filing costs $50.
- Where an LLC files
- How long it lasts
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2 years
Renew every two years. The renewal application and fee must be filed within the 30 days before each second anniversary of registration; failing to do so is grounds for administrative cancellation of the registration. The Secretary of State must send the registrant's authorized representative a renewal notice at least 30 days before the deadline (ORS 648.017).
- Newspaper publication
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not required
- What the filing protects
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no exclusive right
Registering an assumed business name discloses who is behind the name; it grants no exclusive right and carries no infringement remedy of its own. It does have a real practical effect: because an active assumed business name is part of the ORS 63.094 distinguishability test, the state will not register a later entity or assumed name that is not distinguishable from it while yours stays current.
- Where to search existing names
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Oregon keeps assumed business names in the same registry as corporations and LLCs, so the standard Business Name Search returns them alongside entities. An assumed business name appears as an ABN row with its own active or inactive status.
one record, verified 2026-08-04 · ORS 648.007; 648.010; 648.017
What does it take to register a foreign LLC in Oregon?
Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Oregon. The registration costs $275. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.
- Registration fee
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$275
Flat $275.00 filing fee for the Application for Authority to Transact Business - Foreign Limited Liability Company; the official form and the Business Registry fee schedule both price the foreign LLC application at $275.00, and the online Business Registry is the common filing path.
- The official form
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Application for Authority to Transact Business - Foreign Limited Liability Company
- Filed with
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Oregon Secretary of State, Corporation Division
- After registration
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File an annual report with the Secretary of State by the LLC's anniversary each year and continuously maintain a registered agent with an Oregon street address.
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 Oregon?
Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Oregon. Oregon 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 who resides in this state and whose business office is identical to the registered office
- The LLC as its own agent
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Allowed
- A mailbox service as the address
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Not accepted
- Address rule
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The registered office must be located at a physical street address where process may be personally served on the registered agent. The registered office may not be a commercial mail receiving agency, a mail forwarding business or a virtual office.
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 Oregon annual report?
A missed report has its own record in Oregon: 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
after 45 days of delinquency
The first stage the state publishes, in its own unit: after this interval the state may dissolve the LLC by administrative action.
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Reinstatement
no single figure
as the record reads The Secretary of State says a reinstatement fee is payable along with the missed annual fee or fees, but publishes no figure for it; reinstatement is open for five years from the date of dissolution, and the Secretary may waive even that limit on evidence of continued existence as an active concern.
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://sos.oregon.gov/business/Documents/business-registry-forms/br-fee-schedule.pdf
- Recurring tax: Oregon Department of Revenue https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors317A.html
- Expedited service and processing time https://sos.oregon.gov/business/Pages/corporation-division-help.aspx
- Naming statute https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors063.html
- Name reservation https://sos.oregon.gov/business/Documents/business-registry-forms/name-reservation.pdf
- DBA filing https://sos.oregon.gov/business/Pages/registering-your-business-name.aspx
- Oregon Secretary of State - Corporation Division https://sos.oregon.gov/business/Pages/default.aspx
- Business entity search https://sos.oregon.gov/business/pages/find.aspx
The rule behind every figure here, and what a card does when one cannot be verified, sits on how a figure gets verified.