The full Georgia LLC cost table
| Cost | Amount | Required? |
|---|---|---|
| Georgia state filing fee | $100 one-time | Yes |
| Recurring state cost | $60/yr — Annual Registration | Yes |
| Registered agent | $0 as your own agent, or ~$125/yr for a service | Yes (one or the other) |
| EIN (federal tax ID) | $0 direct from the IRS | Usually |
| First-year total | $160 as your own agent · $285 with a service | — |
| Five-year total | $400 as your own agent · $1,025 with a service | — |
Online filing is $100; paper adds $10 ($110). Annual registration is $60 total ($50 fee + mandatory $10 service charge).
A fixed window, not an anniversary
Most states key your annual report to your formation anniversary. Georgia doesn't: every LLC's Annual Registration is due between January 1 and April 1, and a new LLC files its first one the calendar year after it forms — so an LLC formed in December owes its first registration within weeks, while one formed in January gets nearly fifteen months. The fee is $60 ($50 base plus the $10 service charge Georgia added in September 2025 — a change our fee audit found most national guides still haven't picked up). Miss April 1 and it's a $25 penalty; keep missing and administrative dissolution follows. Georgia also lets you prepay two or three years of registrations at once ($120/$180) — worth doing purely to retire the deadline risk.
The rest of the bill is quiet
Online formation is $100 (paper costs $110 — Georgia charges extra for making a human open an envelope). There's no franchise tax on a standard LLC; owners pay Georgia's flat 4.99% personal income tax (2026) on pass-through profits, and the corporate net-worth tax only touches LLCs that elect corporate taxation. LLCs are also exempt from the newspaper-publication requirement Georgia still imposes on corporations. Steady state: $60 a year, one deadline, done — among big Southeastern states, only Florida is comparably simple, and Georgia is cheaper.
Our LLC cost calculator computes first-year and five-year totals for all 51 jurisdictions from the same verified dataset as this page — including Georgia — and the full table is downloadable as CSV.