LLC STATES

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record 47 of 51 · /llc/washington/

Washington LLC

oldest record on this page verified 2026-07-23

sources: linked on each field, listed in full below

Washington's ongoing costs run through the revenue agency

Washington's formation filing lands at the Secretary of State, but nearly everything ongoing moves to the Department of Revenue. The business and occupation tax follows gross receipts with no published floor, is filed with that revenue agency, and travels separately from the annual report. Even the trade name registers through the revenue side's business licensing system rather than with the filing office.

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The agent record here carries two researched findings, not guesses: the company may stand as its own registered agent, while an address at a commercial mail receiving agency is refused. Mailed paper filings wait inside a stated business-day window the office prints beside its expedite offer. Both readings carry their citations on the sheet.

every claim above is a line below

Should you form your LLC in Washington?

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

Office or storefront in Washington?

Yes, it will

A business with a real footprint in Washington files in Washington. 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

$70

Due Last day of anniversary month, printed as the state writes it.

last verified 2026-08-22

app.leg.wa.gov

Franchise tax

scales with revenue

Washington calls it the Business and occupation (B&O) tax, collected by Washington State Department of Revenue. It follows revenue with no annual minimum, so no yearly figure can stand in for it.

last verified 2026-08-08

dor.wa.gov

Anonymous LLC

no

Member or organizer names reach the public formation record here.

last verified 2026-08-10

app.leg.wa.gov

Processing time

0 to 15 business days

By mail, 0 to 15 business days, as the state states it. Expedited formation starts at $50.

as observed on 2026-08-07

app.leg.wa.gov

Name designators

Must contain the words "limited liability company," the words "limited liability" and the abbreviation "Co.," or the abbreviation "L.L.C." or "LLC." The name may not contain "Cooperative," "partnership," "corporation," "incorporated," or the abbreviations "Corp.," "Ltd.," "Inc.," "LP," "L.P.," "LLP," "L.L.P.," "LLLP," or "L.L.L.P."

Statute: RCW 23.95.305.

last verified 2026-07-23

app.leg.wa.gov

Name reservation

$30

Optional filing that holds the name for 180 days before you form.

last verified 2026-07-23

sos.wa.gov

DBA

trade name

One statewide register; the filing costs $5.

last verified 2026-07-23

dor.wa.gov

An individual as the agent

allowed

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

last verified 2026-08-09

app.leg.wa.gov

Late filing penalty

$25

Washington charges this as a flat penalty on a late report. What follows a missed filing is in section 09.

last verified 2026-08-11

app.leg.wa.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 Washington DBA rules?

Washington calls it the trade name, and keeps one statewide register for it. The state filing costs $5.

Where an LLC files

dor.wa.gov

How long it lasts

Indefinite

A registered trade name stays on file with the Department of Revenue indefinitely until the owner asks to cancel it; there is no separate renewal or expiration for the trade name itself.

Newspaper publication

not required

What the filing protects

no exclusive right

The Department of Revenue states plainly that registering a trade name does not protect the name from use by others. It is a public disclosure of who is behind the name, not an exclusive right. Name protection in Washington comes from forming the entity (whose name is screened for distinguishability) or from a registered trademark, not from the trade name.

Where to search existing names

secure.dor.wa.gov

Registered trade names are searched in the Department of Revenue's Business Lookup, not the Secretary of State's system. Entities and reserved names live in the Secretary of State's Corporations and Charities Filing System (CCFS), a separate database.

one record, verified 2026-07-23 · RCW 19.80

app.leg.wa.gov

What does it take to register a foreign LLC in Washington?

Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Washington. The registration costs $180. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.

Registration fee

$180

Flat filing fee of $180.00 for the Foreign Registration Statement; expedited and same-day service add fees.

sos.wa.gov

The official form

Foreign Registration Statement – Profit types

sos.wa.gov

Filed with

Washington Secretary of State

sos.wa.gov

After registration

File an annual report yearly, due by the business's expiration date (the last day of the month in which the business was first registered), and maintain a registered agent with a physical Washington address.

sos.wa.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 Washington?

Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Washington. Washington 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 or domestic or foreign entity that serves in this state as the registered agent of an entity

app.leg.wa.gov

The LLC as its own agent

Allowed

app.leg.wa.gov

A mailbox service as the address

Not accepted

sos.wa.gov

Address rule

A street address in this state; and a mailing address in this state, if different.

app.leg.wa.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.

What happens if you don't file the Washington annual report?

A missed report has its own record in Washington: the penalty, the dissolution clock, and the way back. The penalty is a single flat figure.

  1. Late filing penalty

    $25

    app.leg.wa.gov

  2. Administrative dissolution

    after 120 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.

    app.leg.wa.gov

  3. Reinstatement

    $140

    as the record reads Reinstatement from administrative dissolution costs $140 plus every delinquent annual report fee.

    sos.wa.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.

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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