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Utah LLC

oldest record on this page verified 2026-07-17

sources: linked on each field, listed in full below

Most Utah filings approve the instant they arrive

Utah approves most filings the instant they arrive, the office's own statement, with the remainder inside a short stated range and a priced expedite above it. The annual report renews on the formation anniversary. No recurring entity tax exists here, and that absence was checked rather than assumed.

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The DBA registers with the Division of Corporations and renews on a short fixed cycle rather than lasting forever. The statute is careful about what filing does not do: it authorizes nothing that would violate another's rights in the name. The agent seat is open to an individual or an entity serving in the state, the register's own definition.

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Annual report

$18

Due Anniversary date, printed as the state writes it.

last verified 2026-07-17

commerce.utah.gov

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

le.utah.gov

Anonymous LLC

no

Member or organizer names reach the public formation record here.

dataset revision 2026-08-10

derived from the definition, no statute read

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. It sells expedited service, and whether that covers a formation filing has not been read.

as observed on 2026-08-06

commerce.utah.gov

Name designators

Must contain the words "limited liability company" or "limited company," or the abbreviation "L.L.C.," "LLC," "L.C.," or "LC." "Limited" may be abbreviated as "Ltd." and "company" as "Co." The name may not contain "association," "corporation," "incorporated," "partnership," "limited partnership," or "L.P." Subsection (1) opens with two chapter exceptions: a professional services company under Section 48-3a-1104, and a low-profit limited liability company under Section 48-3a-1302, which must instead carry "L3C" or "l3c" in its name.

Statute: Utah Code § 48-3a-108(1), (8)(a).

last verified 2026-08-05

le.utah.gov

Name reservation

$22

Optional filing that holds the name for 120 days before you form.

last verified 2026-08-05

commerce.utah.gov

An individual as the agent

allowed

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

last verified 2026-08-09

le.utah.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 Utah trade name rules?

Utah calls it the DBA, and keeps one statewide register for it. The state filing costs $22.

Where an LLC files

commerce.utah.gov

How long it lasts

3 years

Renewed every three years from the registration date (most Utah entities renew annually, but a DBA is a three-year cycle). Renewal costs $18, which the Division's fee schedule marks as including a $5 surcharge for the state's single sign-on portal, and a late renewal adds $10. A DBA name cannot be amended, so changing the name means a new filing, and an expired DBA cannot be reinstated.

Newspaper publication

not required

What the filing protects

no exclusive right

Utah Code § 42-2-9(2)(b) provides that a filing under the chapter does not of itself authorize using an assumed name in violation of the rights of another under the chapter, the state Registration and Protection of Trademarks and Service Marks Act, entity-name law, the federal Trademark Act of 1946, or the common law, so registration grants no exclusive right. It does sit in the records the Division screens for distinguishability, so while active a DBA blocks a later entity or DBA name that is not distinguishable from it.

Where to search existing names

businessregistration.utah.gov

DBAs are registered with the Division of Corporations and appear in the same business search as LLCs and corporations, since they share the distinguishability records.

one record, verified 2026-08-04 · Utah Code Title 42, Chapter 2 (Conducting Business Under Assumed Name)

le.utah.gov

What does it take to register an out-of-state LLC in Utah?

Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Utah. The registration costs $59. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.

Registration fee

$59

Flat $59.00 filing fee for a foreign limited liability company's registration; the current Fiscal Year 2026 fee schedule prices the foreign LLC row at $59.00 and the online UtahID flow is the common filing path.

corporations.utah.gov

The official form

Application for Registration

commerce.utah.gov

Filed with

Division of Corporations and Commercial Code

commerce.utah.gov

After registration

File an annual report/renewal each year with the Division ($18.00 on the current fee schedule, portal surcharge included).

corporations.utah.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 may serve as the registered agent in Utah?

Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Utah. Utah lets a natural person serve, so no commercial agent is required.

An individual as the agent

Allowed

in the state's words an individual or a domestic or foreign entity that serves in this state as the agent for service of process of an entity

le.utah.gov

The LLC as its own agent

not read at this pin

A mailbox service as the address

not read at this pin

Address rule

the name and address of the entity's noncommercial registered agent; or the title of an office or other position with the entity if service of process is to be sent to the person holding that office or position, and the address of the business office of that person

le.utah.gov

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.

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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