Formation fee
$180
One-time state fee for the formation certificate.
last verified 2026-07-17
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Washington LLC
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.
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Annual report
$70
Due Last day of anniversary month, printed as the state writes it.
last verified 2026-07-17
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
Anonymous LLC
no
Member or organizer names reach the public formation record here.
last verified 2026-08-06
no source in the snapshot
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
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."
Accepted endings for the legal name. Statute: RCW 23.95.305.
last verified 2026-07-23
Name reservation
$30
Optional filing that holds the name for 180 days before you form.
last verified 2026-07-23
DBA
trade name
One statewide register; the filing costs $5.
last verified 2026-07-23
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
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 trade name rules?
Washington calls it the trade name, and keeps one statewide register for it. The state filing costs $5.
- Where an LLC files
- How long it lasts
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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
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not required
- What the filing protects
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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
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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
What does it take to register an out-of-state 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
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$180
Flat filing fee of $180.00 for the Foreign Registration Statement; expedited and same-day service add fees.
- The official form
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Foreign Registration Statement – Profit types
- Filed with
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Washington Secretary of State
- After registration
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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.
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 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
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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
- 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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A street address in this state; and a mailing address in this state, if different.
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.
- Formation and annual report figures https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=434-112-085
- Recurring tax: Washington State Department of Revenue https://dor.wa.gov/taxes-rates/business-occupation-tax
- Expedited service and processing time https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=434-112-080
- Naming statute https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=23.95.300
- Name reservation https://www.sos.wa.gov/corporations-charities/business-entities/filings-forms-information
- Foreign LLC registration https://www.sos.wa.gov/corporations-charities/business-entities/limited-liability-company-llc-professional-llc-pllc-filing-resource-page
- Who may be the registered agent https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=23.95.105&full=true
- Registered agent rules https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=23.95.410&full=true
- DBA filing https://dor.wa.gov/manage-business/grow-business/register-trade-names
- Washington Secretary of State Corporations and Charities Division https://www.sos.wa.gov/corporations-charities
- Business entity search https://ccfs.sos.wa.gov/#/BusinessSearch
The rule behind every figure here, and what a card does when one cannot be verified, sits on how a figure gets verified.