Formation fee
$300
last verified 2026-09-03
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Texas LLC
The Texas franchise tax has no yearly figure
Filing a certificate of formation with the Secretary of State creates a Texas LLC, and the office sells expedited formation while publishing no standard processing time. That absence is a verified reading, not a gap in the record. The assumed name filing splits by business form: an LLC registers with the state, while other forms file at the county.
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The recurring obligation runs through the Comptroller of Public Accounts as a franchise tax rather than a priced report to the filing office. It follows revenue with no published minimum, so no yearly figure can stand in for it. The sheet therefore shows a badge where a reader might expect a fixed sum.
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Should you form your LLC in Texas?
If the answer is yes, the home-state rule points to Texas.
Office or storefront in Texas?
Yes, it will
A business with a real footprint in Texas files in Texas. 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
$0
Due May 15, printed as the state writes it.
last verified 2026-09-03
Franchise tax
scales with revenue
Texas calls it the Franchise Tax, collected by Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. It follows revenue with no annual minimum, so no yearly figure can stand in for it.
last verified 2026-08-07
Anonymous LLC
no
Member or organizer names reach the public formation record here.
last verified 2026-08-10
Processing time
none published
This state publishes no standard processing time, which is not the same as filing instantly. Expedited formation starts at $50.
verified absent 2026-08-07
no source in the snapshot
Name designators
Must contain the phrase "limited liability company" or "limited company," or an abbreviation of one of those phrases (e.g., "LLC," "L.L.C.," "LC," "L.C.").
Statute: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.056.
last verified 2026-08-06
Name reservation
$40
Optional filing that holds the name for 120 days before you form.
last verified 2026-08-06
DBA
assumed name
LLCs file at the state level for $25; other business forms file with the county.
last verified 2026-07-17
An individual as the agent
allowed
Whether a person may hold the seat, so nobody has to be hired. The terms Texas attaches, and the entity question, sit in the registered agent section.
last verified 2026-08-10
Late filing penalty
$50
That is the flat part only: a rate or tax penalty runs on top of it, so the bill can be larger than this figure. Section 09 carries the rest of the record.
last verified 2026-08-10
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 Texas DBA rules?
Texas 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
- How long it lasts
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Up to 10 years
Renewable for successive terms of up to 10 years each. The renewal must be filed within 6 months before the certificate expires; an expired certificate is void.
- Newspaper publication
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not required
- What the filing protects
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no exclusive right
Filing gives no rights in the name. Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 71.157 states that filing is not actual use of the name for determining priority, and it does not stop anyone else from filing the same assumed name or forming an entity under it.
- Where to search existing names
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State-level certificates are searched through SOSDirect, which needs an account and charges $1.00 per search. County-level certificates sit in each county clerk's records. The Comptroller's taxable entity search does not list assumed names.
one record, verified 2026-07-17 · Tex. Bus. & Com. Code ch. 71
What does it take to register a foreign LLC in Texas?
Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Texas. The registration costs $750. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.
- Registration fee
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$750
Flat statutory filing fee of $750 stated on Form 304 and its instructions; credit-card payments add a statutorily authorized convenience fee of 2.7 percent.
- The official form
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Application for Registration of a Foreign Limited Liability Company (Form 304)
- Filed with
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Secretary of State
- After registration
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Maintain a registered agent and a registered office address in Texas; failure to do so may result in revocation of the registration.
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 Texas?
Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Texas. Texas lets a natural person serve, so no commercial agent is required. The LLC itself may not hold the seat, which is a separate question.
- An individual as the agent
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Allowed
in the state's words The initial registered agent is an individual resident of the state
- The LLC as its own agent
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Not allowed
- A mailbox service as the address
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Not accepted
- Address rule
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The registered office address must be located at a street address where service of process may be personally served on the entity's registered agent during normal business hours; the registered office may not be solely a mailbox service or telephone answering service.
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 Texas annual report?
A missed report has its own record in Texas: the penalty, the dissolution clock, and the way back. The penalty has more than one part.
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Late filing penalty
$50
That is the flat part only: a rate or tax penalty runs on top of it, so the bill can be larger than this figure.
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Administrative dissolution
not read at this pin
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Reinstatement
$75
as the record reads Form 801 costs $75 and cannot be filed until the Comptroller issues a tax clearance letter, which requires every missing franchise tax report to be filed and all tax, penalty and interest paid.
one record, verified 2026-08-10
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://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/franchise/
- Naming statute https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/?tab=1&code=BO&chapter=BO.5&artSec=5.053
- Name reservation https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/namefilingsfaqs.shtml
- Foreign LLC registration https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/instructions/304.shtml
- Who may be the registered agent https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/forms/205_boc.pdf
- Annual report late fee https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/file-pay/penalties.php
- Reinstatement https://direct.sos.state.tx.us/help/help-corp.asp?pg=fee
- DBA filing https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/instructions/503.shtml
- Texas Secretary of State - Business & Public Filings Division https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/index.shtml
- Business entity search https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/franchise/account-status/search
The rule behind every figure here, and what a card does when one cannot be verified, sits on how a figure gets verified.