A Maine LLC costs $472 all-in through Anonymousllc.co in 2026: a $297 service fee plus the $175 Maine state filing fee. Ongoing cost is the $85 annual report plus $100/year registered agent, for $185/year of maintenance. This breakdown covers the state fee, the annual report, service versus DIY, the recurring cost, and how Maine compares to Wyoming and New Mexico for founders who also weigh ownership privacy.
The Maine Secretary of State charges $175 to file the Articles of Organization, paid once at formation. This is the only mandatory state fee due at filing time. Maine does not add a publication requirement, so no newspaper cost applies, unlike New York or Arizona. The $175 covers the state's acceptance of the Articles, which lands within 1-3 business days. Everything beyond that fee, the registered agent, operating agreement, EIN, and banking, is service work rather than a state charge. A founder filing alone pays only the $175 to the state and then completes each remaining step without support. The state fee is the same for residents and non-residents, since Maine sets no citizenship condition on LLC formation.
Maine LLC maintenance is $185/year: the $85 annual report plus $100/year for commercial registered agent service. Maine does not levy a separate franchise tax on LLC income. The $85 annual report is due each year to keep the LLC in good standing. Income tax is a separate obligation that depends on state-sourced income and any entity-level election; Maine taxes pass-through profit as personal income at rates up to 7.15%. Missing the annual report moves the LLC toward administrative dissolution, which then forces a reinstatement fee to restore active status. The $185/year figure covers the two recurring compliance costs, not income tax, which varies with the owner's profit and return.
Filing alone costs the $175 state fee, but the founder handles the name check, operating agreement, EIN, and bank applications without support. Anonymousllc.co charges a $297 service fee plus the state fee and completes every step in 5-10 business days. The DIY route saves the $297 service fee up front and costs more in time and missed steps, especially for non-residents who cannot get an EIN online without an SSN. The service route delivers the stamped Articles, EIN, operating agreement, and 4-5 bank applications as one package. A non-resident filing alone faces the hardest step at the EIN, since the IRS online portal requires an SSN or ITIN. The service handles that step by fax as third-party designee, which removes the main DIY roadblock for founders abroad. The $297 service fee is flat across all four flagship states, so the only variable in the total is the state fee itself. Maine's $175 fee sits above Wyoming's $100 and New Mexico's $50, which is why the Maine all-in of $472 runs higher than the anonymous-state options.
A Maine LLC costs $472 all-in: a $297 service fee plus the $175 Maine state fee. That price covers the state filing, registered agent for year one, a Maine operating agreement, the EIN, and 4-5 US bank applications. Add-on services are priced separately: EIN $99 as a standalone, ITIN $299, and BOI $150 per report where a foreign reporting company must file. There are no hidden upsells behind the $472 number. From year two, the recurring cost is $185/year for the annual report and registered agent. The $472 is a one-time formation cost; the founder pays it once and then carries only the annual maintenance and any income tax the business generates.
The EIN is included in the $472 Anonymousllc.co formation package, and it costs $99 as a standalone service for an LLC that already exists. The IRS charges nothing for the EIN itself; the fee covers the filing work. A non-resident without an SSN cannot use the IRS online portal, so the EIN is obtained by fax filing Form SS-4, which takes 5-7 days. Anonymousllc.co acts as third-party designee on the SS-4 to complete this for founders abroad. The EIN is required before any bank account or tax filing, so it sits on the critical path of every formation. Bundling it into the $472 package removes the separate $99 charge a founder would pay to add it later.
Reinstating an administratively dissolved Maine LLC costs $250 plus state fees through Anonymousllc.co, on top of the back annual reports and accrued penalties owed to the state. The total depends on how many filings were missed. Each missed $85 annual report and each late penalty of $25-$200 adds to the bill, so a long lapse costs far more than steady maintenance. The $250 service fee covers the reinstatement application and coordination with the Maine Secretary of State. Avoiding reinstatement is the cheapest path: the $185/year maintenance is smaller than the penalties, back reports, and $250 reinstatement fee that follow a lapse. Anonymousllc.co files the annual report on time to keep the LLC clear of dissolution.
No. A non-resident pays the same $472 all-in for a Maine LLC as a US resident, because Maine charges the same $175 state fee regardless of citizenship. The service fee is $297 in both cases. The practical difference is the EIN step, which a non-resident obtains by fax rather than online, at no extra charge inside the package. Banking is harder for non-residents, so Anonymousllc.co submits 4-5 bank applications to raise the overall approval rate to about 90%. No US visit, US phone number, or US address of the founder's own is required. The non-resident carries the same $185/year maintenance from year two as any other Maine LLC owner.
New Mexico is the cheapest anonymous option at $347 all-in with no annual report and no annual fee. Wyoming is $397 all-in with strong anonymity, and Maine is $472 all-in plus $185/year of maintenance. A founder who operates physically in Maine registers locally or foreign-qualifies an anonymous parent. A founder who wants low cost and ownership privacy forms in New Mexico or Wyoming and treats Maine as a foreign-qualification market only when local presence is required. See /anonymous-llc/ for the four-state comparison and /wyoming-anonymous-llc/ for the $397 flagship. New Mexico's zero-maintenance model wins on lifetime cost, since it carries no recurring state fee at all, while Maine carries $185 every year.
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