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Vermont LLC

oldest record on this page verified 2026-07-17

sources: linked on each field, listed in full below

Vermont ties the report to the fiscal year

Vermont hooks the annual report to the company's own fiscal year, due within a short window after that year closes rather than on a calendar date. A flat minimum tax recurs beside it, paid to the Commissioner of Taxes. Neither speed product appears on this record: no expedited tier and no published standard time, both checked.

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The assumed business name registers for a set term and is screened against the state's records before it is accepted. The agent seat is open in both directions, to a resident individual and to the company serving for itself, with a statute behind each finding. The designated office needs no connection to a place of business.

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Annual report

$45

Due Within 3 months after fiscal year end, printed as the state writes it.

last verified 2026-07-17

sos.vermont.gov

Franchise tax

$250

Vermont calls it the Minimum tax, collected by Commissioner of Taxes, Vermont Department of Taxes. It is a flat $250 a year, separate from the annual report.

last verified 2026-08-07

legislature.vermont.gov

Anonymous LLC

no

Member or organizer names reach the public formation record here.

dataset revision 2026-08-06

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Processing time

none published

This state publishes no standard processing time, which is not the same as filing instantly. This state sells no expedited service.

verified absent 2026-08-07

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Name designators

Except for a low-profit limited liability company, the name 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." The name of a low-profit limited liability company must instead contain the abbreviation "L3C."

Statute: 11 V.S.A. § 4005(a).

last verified 2026-08-05

legislature.vermont.gov

Name reservation

$25

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

last verified 2026-08-05

sos.vermont.gov

DBA

assumed business name

One statewide register; the filing costs $70.

last verified 2026-08-05

sos.vermont.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 Vermont trade name rules?

Vermont calls it the assumed business name, and keeps one statewide register for it. The state filing costs $70.

Where an LLC files

sos.vermont.gov

How long it lasts

5 years

A registrant must reregister every five years, filing with the Secretary of State no sooner than 60 days before the current registration or last reregistration expires, for a $65 fee (11 V.S.A. § 1635(a)). If the reregistration is not made, the name is open to the first person who applies for an original registration (§ 1635(b)).

Newspaper publication

not required

What the filing protects

no exclusive right

An assumed business name discloses the name a business trades under and grants no exclusive right to it. It is screened, however: under 11 V.S.A. § 1621(c) the Secretary of State declines a business name unless it is distinguishable in the records from every other name registered or reserved with the office, so a live registration does block a later confusingly similar filing.

Where to search existing names

bizfilings.vermont.gov

Registered assumed business names appear in the Secretary of State's online business search. Only registrations with a status of Active, Terminated, Expiration Pending, Registered, Reserved, or Hold are counted when the office tests distinguishability.

one record, verified 2026-08-05 · 11 V.S.A. § 1621

legislature.vermont.gov

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

Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Vermont. The registration costs $155. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.

Registration fee

$155

Flat statutory filing fee of $155.00 for the Application for Certificate of Authority (11 V.S.A. § 4112); online registration carries no extra fee.

sos.vermont.gov

The official form

Application for Certificate of Authority

sos.vermont.gov

Filed with

Vermont Secretary of State

legislature.vermont.gov

After registration

File an annual report with the Secretary of State each year to maintain the certificate of authority.

sos.vermont.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 Vermont?

Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Vermont. Vermont 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 an individual resident of this State

legislature.vermont.gov

The LLC as its own agent

Allowed

legislature.vermont.gov

A mailbox service as the address

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Address rule

a designated office for notification purposes, which may but need not be a place of its business, and may but need not be located in this State

legislature.vermont.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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