The full Michigan LLC cost table
| Cost | Amount | Required? |
|---|---|---|
| Michigan state filing fee | $50 one-time | Yes |
| Recurring state cost | $25/yr — Annual Statement | 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 | $75 as your own agent · $200 with a service | — |
| Five-year total | $175 as your own agent · $800 with a service | — |
Fifty dollars — the cheapest big-state formation in America
Michigan's Articles of Organization cost $50, filed with LARA — no other top-ten-population state comes close (the next cheapest is Ohio at $99, and Texas charges six times more). The recurring side stays modest: an Annual Statement of $25, due February 15 every year — the same fixed date for every Michigan LLC, like Georgia's window but a single day. A timing quirk worth knowing when choosing your formation date: an LLC formed after September 30 skips the immediately following February 15, so a November formation gets roughly fifteen months before its first statement, while an August formation gets six.
Small penalties, real consequences
Miss February 15 and the penalty is $50 — twice the fee, but hardly Florida's $400 hammer. The consequence that matters is cumulative: two straight missed years puts the LLC 'not in good standing,' which surfaces at the worst moments — loan applications, closings, lawsuits. On taxes, Michigan charges LLCs no franchise tax; owners pay the state's flat 4.25% personal income tax (2026) on pass-through profits, and the 6% Corporate Income Tax only reaches entities that elect C-corp treatment. Five-year state bill: $150 — $50 in, four $25 statements — cheaper than a single year of North Carolina's annual report.
Our LLC cost calculator computes first-year and five-year totals for all 51 jurisdictions from the same verified dataset as this page — including Michigan — and the full table is downloadable as CSV.