Annual Report & Filing Fees: All 50 States - Anonymousllc.co's 2026 reference. Covers the rule, the controlling statute or regulation, common questions, and how Anonymousllc.co handles it in practice. Primary-source citations linked throughout.
An LLC pays two kinds of state fee: a one-time filing fee to form the entity and a recurring annual fee (an annual report, franchise tax, or business license) to keep it in good standing. Both vary by state. The filing fee is charged once when the Articles of Organization are submitted - $50 in New Mexico, $100 in Wyoming, $110 in Delaware, $425 in Nevada among the anonymous-LLC states. The annual fee is charged every year the LLC exists and takes a different form in each state: Wyoming levies a $60 minimum license tax, Delaware a $300 flat franchise tax, Nevada a $550 combined Annual List and business license, and New Mexico nothing at all. This page ranks and explains both fee types for the four anonymous-LLC states, with the state-by-state charts linked in Related Resources. Coverage is current as of the last-updated stamp at the top of the page.
State filing fees for the four anonymous states are New Mexico $50, Wyoming $100, Delaware $110, and Nevada $425. Anonymousllc.co adds a flat $297 service fee on top of each. That produces the all-in totals: New Mexico $347, Wyoming $397, Delaware $407, and Nevada $722. New Mexico's $50 filing fee is the lowest among the anonymous states; Nevada's $425 is the highest because it bundles $75 for the Articles, a $200 business license, and a $150 initial Annual List into the formation cost. The Anonymous LLC SKU is $397 all-in, Wyoming-fulfilled on the backend. The filing fee is a state charge, not a service margin - Anonymousllc.co passes it through at cost. The $297 service fee covers the filing work, registered agent for year 1, the operating agreement, the EIN, and 4-5 bank applications, identical across all four states.
Recurring state fees are New Mexico $0, Wyoming $60, Delaware $300, and Nevada $550 per year. A flat $100/year registered agent applies in every state on top. Wyoming charges a $60 minimum annual license tax under Wyo. Stat. § 17-29-209, due the first day of the anniversary month, scaling up only above $250,000 of Wyoming-situs assets. Delaware charges a flat $300 franchise tax under 6 Del. C. § 18-1107, due June 1, with no income or asset scaling. Nevada charges a $350 Annual List under NRS § 86.263 plus a $200 State Business License under NRS § 76.100, for $550 due the last day of the anniversary month. New Mexico is the outlier: no annual report and no franchise tax under NMSA § 53-19, so the only recurring cost is the $100/year registered agent. That makes New Mexico both the cheapest anonymous LLC to form ($347) and the cheapest to maintain ($100/year).
New Mexico is cheapest on both fronts - $347 to form and $100/year to maintain. Nevada is the most expensive - $722 to form and $650/year to maintain. Ranked by year-two total cost (annual fee plus $100 registered agent): New Mexico $100, Wyoming $160, Delaware $400, Nevada $650. Over five years the maintenance gap compounds to $500 for New Mexico versus $3,250 for Nevada. The formation cost and the maintenance cost rank identically, so a budget-first buyer choosing on price picks New Mexico for both reasons. Wyoming sits in the position most buyers choose: $397 to form and $160 a year to maintain, with the strongest single-member charging-order protection of the four states under Wyo. Stat. § 17-29-503. It trades New Mexico's small maintenance saving for materially stronger asset protection and easier banking.
A filing fee is paid once to create the LLC; an annual report fee is paid every year to keep it active. Confusing the two leads owners to assume a formation is 'paid for' when a recurring obligation remains. The filing fee attaches to the Articles of Organization and is never charged again for that entity. The annual fee is a separate, recurring obligation with its own deadline and its own penalty clock. A Wyoming LLC pays $100 once to form and $60 every year after; a Delaware LLC pays $110 once and $300 every June 1; a Nevada LLC pays $425 at formation and $550 every anniversary month. Some states also fold a business license into the annual obligation, which is why Nevada's recurring cost is high relative to its Articles fee. New Mexico collapses the distinction by charging a filing fee once and nothing thereafter. Reading a state's fee schedule means checking both columns, not just the headline formation number.
Missing a deadline moves the LLC through a late penalty, then loss of good standing, then administrative dissolution or revocation after 12 months. Each stage costs more to reverse than the original fee. Wyoming adds a $50 penalty after 60 days and dissolves the LLC after 12 months. Delaware adds a $200 penalty plus 1.5% monthly interest and cancels after two missed years. Nevada adds $75 on the Annual List and $100 on the business license, then revokes after 12 months, with revival under NRS § 86.276 costing $200 plus back fees. New Mexico has no deadline, so it carries none of this risk. Loss of good standing has practical bite before dissolution: a bank can restrict an account tied to a lapsed entity, and the LLC cannot obtain a certificate of good standing to foreign-qualify or close a financing. Anonymousllc.co sends a 30-day WhatsApp reminder before each state deadline to keep customers ahead of the penalty clock.
Yes. The registered agent is the one recurring cost every LLC carries in every state, at $100/year through Anonymousllc.co. It is separate from the state's annual report or franchise tax. Every state requires an LLC to maintain a registered agent with an in-state street address to receive service of process and government mail. The formation package includes year 1; the renewal is $100/year after that. For a New Mexico LLC, this agent renewal is the entire recurring cost, because the state charges no annual report and no franchise tax. Self-listing as your own registered agent to save the fee defeats the anonymity - it puts your name and address on the public state record. Using a commercial agent keeps the owner off the public filing while satisfying the statutory requirement, which is why the agent fee is treated as a core annual cost rather than an optional add-on.
Non-residents pay the identical state filing and annual fees a US resident pays - there is no surcharge. The only procedural difference is the EIN, which issues by fax rather than online. A non-resident forming a Wyoming LLC pays the same $397 all-in and the same $160/year maintenance. State fees are set by statute and apply to the entity regardless of where the owner lives. The registered agent supplies the required in-state address, so no US presence is needed to satisfy the annual-report or business-license requirements. The cross-border additions are procedural, not fee-based on the state side: the EIN takes 4-6 weeks via fax SS-4, and an ITIN (if a personal US tax or verification need exists) takes 8-12 weeks and costs $299 standalone. Anonymousllc.co handles both tracks and files or reminds on the same state deadlines for resident and non-resident owners alike.
Anonymousllc.co passes state filing fees through at cost, bundles the first year of registered agent into formation, and sends a 30-day WhatsApp reminder before each state's annual deadline. Hands-off filing is a $99 add-on plus state fees. At formation, the flat $297 service fee plus the state fee produces the totals: New Mexico $347, Wyoming $397, Delaware $407, Nevada $722. The state portion is a pass-through, not a margin. Year one includes the registered agent; year two begins the recurring $100/year agent plus the state's annual fee, which is $0 in New Mexico, $60 in Wyoming, $300 in Delaware, and $550 in Nevada. For the annual report itself, Anonymousllc.co sends a reminder 30 days out with the correct portal link and the exact amount owed, so the owner files in minutes. Owners who prefer to hand it off add the Annual Report Filing service at $99 plus state fees per filing. New Mexico customers skip this entirely, since the state has no annual report and no franchise tax.
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