Every list of "LLC compliance requirements" tells you about the annual report. These are the obligations that sit outside it — the ones with no reminder attached, which is why they are the ones that cost people money.
| State | Obligation | Fee | Deadline |
| New York | Newspaper publication requirement | $1,000 | Within 120 days of formation |
| Delaware | Tax clearance before dissolution | $400 | Before filing a certificate of cancellation |
| Nevada | State business licence | $200 | Anniversary month, annually |
| Arizona | Newspaper publication requirement | $100 | Within 60 days of formation |
| California | Statement of Information | $20 | Within 90 days of formation, then every 2 years during filing month |
| Pennsylvania | Decennial report (every 10 years) | $7 | Every 10 years from formation date |
| California | Beneficial owner disclosure | $0 | Annual filing with Statement of Information |
The three worth knowing even if you never hire anyone
New York's publication requirement — about $1,000
Within 120 days of forming, a New York LLC must publish notice in two newspapers designated by the county clerk, then file a Certificate of Publication. In New York County the newspaper costs are the expensive part and run well over the filing fee itself. Miss it and your authority to do business in the state can be suspended. Almost nobody selling you a $0 New York formation mentions this before you pay.
Nevada's business licence — $200, and it is not the annual report
Nevada wants a $200 state business licence every year, and separately an Annual List of Managers or Members at $150. They are two different obligations with two different fees. We know this one particularly well: our own cost data recorded Nevada formation at $75 for a while, when the true first-year total is $425 once the Initial List and the business licence are counted. We were losing money on every Nevada order until we found it.
Pennsylvania's decennial report — $7, every ten years
Seven dollars, once a decade. There is no plausible way to remember this, and failing to file means losing the exclusive right to your own company name. It is the clearest example of the real problem: the cost of these obligations is almost never the fee.
Why the fee is never the point
Add it up and the money is small. A median annual report is about $55. Pennsylvania's decennial is $7. What makes this category expensive is administrative dissolution: the company stops existing, and the liability protection you formed it for stops with it — retroactively, in some states. For a company that holds a property or signs leases, that is the entire reason it exists.
Find out what your companies actually owe
Type in your companies and we will show you every deadline, fee and obligation each one carries — including the ones that are not the annual report. Free, no account, and the answer appears on the page rather than in an email.
It computes your obligations from each state's published rules and the formation dates you give us. It does not contact your state's registry, so it cannot tell you your current standing — we say so on the page too, because a tool that told you you were in good standing without having looked would be worse than no tool.
About this page. Every figure here is maintained in one place and rendered from it, so a correction fixes every page at once. State fees and rules do change — verify anything you are about to act on against the state's own site, which is linked above where one exists. This is information, not legal or tax advice. We provide and manage your registered agent service in all 50 states and DC. Northwest Registered Agent is the agent of record named on your state filings, and their correspondence reaches you under their name.