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 | — |
Optional expedite from +$50 for 24-hour to +$1,000 for 1-hour. The annual statement fee drops to $15 for payments after September 30, 2027.
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.
The registered agent is the recurring cost most Michigan fee tables leave out, and it is the one line on this page you actually choose. What a registered agent costs covers how the pricing works; the cheapest option in your state covers where the floor really sits, which is lower than most tables say.