{ "name": "US LLC Fee Change Wire", "url": "https://www.registeredagenthub.com/fee-changes/", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "attribution": "RegisteredAgentHub, https://www.registeredagenthub.com/fee-changes/", "updated": "2026-08-31", "count": 12, "changes": [ { "id": "tx-expedite-tiers-2026", "state": "Texas", "status": "confirmed", "field": "Expedited processing", "old": "$25 flat", "new": "$50 standard · $500 next-day · $750 same-day, per document", "effective": "2026-08-31", "effective_note": "date we confirmed the tiers live; the change itself predates our check", "verified": "2026-08-31", "authority": "Texas Express, Office of the Secretary of State", "source_url": "https://www.sos.state.tx.us/express.shtml", "headline": "Texas replaced its flat $25 expedite fee with three priced tiers", "what_it_means": "The old flat $25 expedite no longer exists. Texas now runs tiered Texas Express service: $50 for two to three business days, $500 next-day and $750 same-day, each charged per document on top of that document's own filing fee. Same-day and next-day must be requested in person or by email before your courier arrives. Most published guides still quote the retired $25.", "affected": [ "/llc-cost-texas/", "/registered-agent-texas/" ] }, { "id": "tx-veteran-sunset-repealed", "state": "Texas", "status": "confirmed", "field": "New veteran-owned business exemption", "old": "Scheduled to end 1 January 2026", "new": "Sunset repealed — the exemption continues", "effective": "2025-09-01", "verified": "2026-08-31", "authority": "House Bill 346, effective 1 September 2025", "source_url": "https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/franchise/veteran-business.php", "headline": "Texas repealed the sunset on its veteran-owned business exemption", "what_it_means": "A new veteran-owned business — formed in Texas on or after 1 January 2022 and owned 100% by honorably discharged veterans — pays no formation filing fee and no franchise tax, and files no Public Information Report, for five years. That benefit was legislated to end on 1 January 2026. House Bill 346 repealed the sunset, so it continues. Any guide written from pre-2025 sources is telling veterans a live benefit has expired.", "affected": [ "/llc-cost-texas/", "/registered-agent-texas/" ] }, { "id": "ca-first-year-waiver-expired", "state": "California", "status": "confirmed", "field": "First-year $800 franchise tax waiver", "old": "Waived for the first tax year", "new": "Expired — the $800 is due in year one", "effective": "2024-01-01", "verified": "2026-08-31", "authority": "Franchise Tax Board — exemption applied to tax years beginning on or after 1 January 2021 and before 1 January 2024", "source_url": "https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/business/types/limited-liability-company/index.html", "headline": "California's first-year $800 waiver has expired", "what_it_means": "LLCs that registered for tax years beginning between 1 January 2021 and 1 January 2024 skipped the $800 annual tax in year one. That window has closed: an LLC formed today owes the $800 in its first year, due by the 15th day of the 4th month after registering. A great many guides still promise a free first year. One genuine exception survives — cancel within a year of organising using Short Form Cancellation LLC-4/8 and the first-year tax does not apply.", "affected": [ "/llc-cost-california/", "/registered-agent-california/", "/llc-cost-calculator/" ] }, { "id": "de-annual-tax-400", "state": "Delaware", "status": "confirmed", "field": "Annual LLC tax", "old": "$300", "new": "$400", "effective": "2026-01-01", "effective_note": "the June 2026 payment, for tax year 2025, remained $300 — the first $400 bill falls due 1 June 2027", "verified": "2026-08-08", "authority": "House Bill 400, signed 21 May 2026", "headline": "Delaware raised the flat LLC annual tax from $300 to $400", "what_it_means": "Delaware's flat annual tax on LLCs rose by a third. The timing catches people out: the payment due 1 June 2026 was for tax year 2025 and stayed at $300, so the first $400 bill lands on 1 June 2027. The late penalty is unchanged at $200 plus 1.5% a month. We had this wrong ourselves at $300 and corrected it — the error is disclosed in our fee audit.", "affected": [ "/registered-agent-delaware/", "/llc-cost-calculator/", "/llc-fee-accuracy-audit/" ], "source_url": "https://corp.delaware.gov/" }, { "id": "ga-filing-fee-100", "state": "Georgia", "status": "confirmed", "field": "Formation filing fee and annual registration", "old": "$110 filing · $50 annual registration", "new": "$100 online filing ($110 by paper) · $60 annual registration", "effective": "2025-09-01", "verified": "2026-08-08", "authority": "Georgia Secretary of State fee schedule", "headline": "Georgia's online filing fee is $100, and the annual registration rose to $60", "what_it_means": "Two corrections in one. Online formation costs $100, not the $110 that applies to paper filings — a distinction most guides flatten. And the annual registration is now $60 in total: the $50 fee plus a $10 service charge Georgia added in September 2025. We had quoted the paper price and misplaced the service charge; both are fixed.", "affected": [ "/registered-agent-georgia/", "/llc-cost-georgia/", "/llc-cost-calculator/" ], "source_url": "https://sos.ga.gov/" }, { "id": "al-bpt-exempt-2024", "state": "Alabama", "status": "confirmed", "field": "Business Privilege Tax minimum", "old": "$50–$100 minimum tax, return required", "new": "$0 — fully exempt where tax due is $100 or less; no return", "effective": "2024-01-01", "verified": "2026-08-08", "authority": "Act 2022-252", "headline": "Alabama stopped charging small LLCs the Business Privilege Tax", "what_it_means": "From tax year 2024, Alabama exempts the Business Privilege Tax where the amount due is $100 or less, which covers the minimum-tax small LLCs the tax used to catch — no tax, and no return to file. Only corporations still file the Secretary of State annual report. Every national guide we audited was still telling readers to budget $50 to $165 a year for it, two years on.", "affected": [ "/registered-agent-alabama/", "/llc-cost-calculator/", "/llc-fee-accuracy-audit/" ], "source_url": "https://www.revenue.alabama.gov/notice-important-changes-to-the-2024-business-privilege-tax-filing-requirements/" }, { "id": "ks-fee-cut-2026", "state": "Kansas", "status": "confirmed", "field": "Formation filing fee", "old": "$160", "new": "$85 online ($90 by paper)", "effective": "2026-02-27", "verified": "2026-06-13", "authority": "Kansas Secretary of State", "headline": "Kansas cut its LLC formation fee by 47%", "what_it_means": "One of the largest state fee cuts in the country, and one of the least noticed. Kansas dropped formation from $160 to $85 online, and the report moved to a biennial $90. When we audited five of the biggest national fee guides months later, four still quoted the old $160.", "affected": [ "/registered-agent-kansas/", "/llc-cost-calculator/", "/llc-fee-accuracy-audit/" ], "source_url": "https://sos.ks.gov/" }, { "id": "pa-annual-report-2025", "state": "Pennsylvania", "status": "confirmed", "field": "Periodic reporting", "old": "Decennial report, once every ten years", "new": "Annual report, $7, due 30 September", "effective": "2025-01-01", "verified": "2026-06-13", "authority": "Pennsylvania Department of State", "headline": "Pennsylvania replaced the decennial report with a $7 annual report", "what_it_means": "For decades Pennsylvania asked LLCs to file once every ten years. Since January 2025 every LLC files an annual report by 30 September for $7. The transition carries a grace period — no penalties for 2025 and 2026 — but from the 2027 report onward, sustained non-filing leads to administrative dissolution about six months after the deadline. Any guide still describing a decennial report is describing a filing that no longer exists.", "affected": [ "/registered-agent-pennsylvania/", "/llc-cost-pennsylvania/", "/annual-report-deadlines/" ], "source_url": "https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dos.html" }, { "id": "wa-annual-report-70", "state": "Washington", "status": "confirmed", "field": "Annual report fee", "old": "$60", "new": "$70", "effective": "2026-06-13", "effective_note": "date of our verification; the increase itself predates it", "verified": "2026-06-13", "authority": "Washington Secretary of State", "headline": "Washington's annual report fee rose to $70", "what_it_means": "A small increase that is easy to miss and widely mis-stated: the annual report is $70, not the $60 several guides still print. It is due by the last day of your formation-anniversary month, and new LLCs owe a separate Initial Report within 120 days of forming.", "affected": [ "/registered-agent-washington/", "/llc-cost-washington/", "/annual-report-deadlines/" ], "source_url": "https://www.sos.wa.gov/corporations-charities/business-entities/online-filing-instructions/file-annual-report-multiple-entity-types-online" }, { "id": "mt-report-fee-waived", "state": "Montana", "status": "confirmed", "field": "Annual report fee", "old": "$20", "new": "$0 if filed on time, through 2027", "effective": "2024-01-01", "verified": "2026-06-13", "authority": "Montana Secretary of State", "headline": "Montana is still waiving its annual report fee for on-time filers", "what_it_means": "Montana waives the $20 annual report fee for LLCs that file by 15 April, and has renewed the waiver every year since 2024 — currently through 2027. File late and it is $35. Worth budgeting $20 a year anyway: a waiver renewed annually is a waiver that can lapse annually.", "affected": [ "/registered-agent-montana/", "/llc-cost-calculator/", "/annual-report-deadlines/" ], "source_url": "https://sosmt.gov/business/fees/" }, { "id": "la-act-921-2026", "state": "Louisiana", "status": "upcoming", "field": "Commercial Division filing fees", "old": "Formation $100 · annual report $30", "new": "Increases across the schedule — amounts publish on the day", "effective": "2026-10-01", "verified": "2026-08-08", "authority": "Act 921 (2026 Regular Session)", "headline": "Louisiana raises every Commercial Division filing fee on 1 October", "what_it_means": "Act 921 lifts the Secretary of State's Commercial Division fees, including LLC formation and the annual report. The current figures are $100 to form and $30 a year. We will publish the new schedule the day it takes effect — if you are forming in Louisiana, filing before 1 October locks the old price.", "affected": [ "/registered-agent-louisiana/", "/llc-cost-calculator/", "/annual-report-deadlines/" ], "source_url": "https://www.sos.la.gov/business-services/file-business-documents" }, { "id": "ut-title-renumber-2026", "state": "Utah", "status": "upcoming", "field": "Statutory citations", "old": "Utah Code Title 16, Chapter 17", "new": "Renumbered under Title 48, Chapter 3a", "effective": "2026-10-01", "verified": "2026-07-12", "authority": "Chapter 93, 2026 General Session", "headline": "Utah renumbers its registered-agent statute on the same day", "what_it_means": "Not a fee change, but every guide that cites Utah's Model Registered Agents Act by section number goes stale on 1 October. Fees are unaffected. We flag it because a citation that no longer resolves is the quietest way for a page to become wrong.", "affected": [ "/registered-agent-utah/" ], "source_url": "https://corporations.utah.gov/" } ] }