Mississippi foreign LLC registration
Mississippi foreign LLC registration: the fee, the daily charge and the yearly report
The fee is $250. Every day of Mississippi work before you register adds $10 more, until a year's extra reaches $1,000.
What you receive
- Filed registrationProof that the LLC is on file with Mississippi.
- Agent entryEither our name or yours as the agent here.
- Application copyThe paperwork we sent in.
- Report reminderA note of the April 15 report date.
Registering a foreign LLC in Mississippi costs $250 on the Application for Registration of Foreign Limited Liability Company, filing F0200, and the fee section of the Revised LLC Act adds $10 for each day the company has been working in the state without it, to a ceiling of $1,000 a year. We fill in the application, line up the home-state certificate and the Mississippi agent, and file it for $199.
This page is the short version. The longer ones are the step-by-step guide, the daily charge explained, the fee page, the F0200 walkthrough and the yearly report that costs a foreign LLC what a Mississippi LLC pays nothing for.
- Stops the daily charge from growing
- One Mississippi fee, listed up front
- Mississippi agent available
This order includes
Start the count over
Each day of unregistered work adds $10 to the fee, to a ceiling of $1,000 a year.
A fee you can read
The registration is $250. Our charge sits next to it.
Home paperwork checked
Mississippi wants a home-state certificate dated within six months. We tell you if yours is too old.
Built from answers
A brief questionnaire fills in the application for you.
A street address here
Our office can be the Mississippi agent, or you can name another.
Replies from a person
A preparer answers questions about your Mississippi registration.
Registering a foreign LLC in Mississippi
Order the home-state certificate
Ask the formation state for a certificate of good standing or existence. Mississippi's guide wants one dated within six months.
Pick the Mississippi agent
The agent needs a street address in Mississippi, and that address becomes the registered office.
Check the name
Mississippi lets the company register under a name that ends in LLC even when the home name differs, as long as a Mississippi LLC could register it.
Complete the application
Name, home state and formation date, agent, the date business began here, and the home office address.
Sign and file
A member, manager or officer with authority at home signs, and the filing goes in through the online system with $250.
Calendar April 15
The yearly report, $250 for a foreign LLC, is the next thing due.
Mississippi foreign LLC registration at a glance
- Form
- Application for Registration of Foreign Limited Liability Company (F0200)
- Filed with
- Mississippi Secretary of State, Business Services
- Registration fee
- $250
- Daily add-on while unregistered
- $10 per day, with a $1,000 ceiling in any year
- Home-state paper
- Certificate of good standing or existence, dated within six months
- How it is filed
- Through the Secretary of State's online filing system
- Processing time
- Mississippi does not publish one
- Yearly report
- $250, due April 15
- Cancelling
- $25 for a certificate of cancellation
Does your LLC have to register in Mississippi?
Under the Revised LLC Act, registration comes before the foreign LLC starts transacting business in Mississippi. The Secretary of State's own guide puts a number on it: once any of its employees will spend 30 days in Mississippi in a year, registration is required; contractors and firms that work with state agencies may have to register regardless of how few days they spend here. Things like holding a bank account, letting independent contractors do the selling, or taking orders that become contracts elsewhere do not count, and neither does a one-off deal closed within 30 days. The page on what triggers registration sorts everyday situations onto each side of that line.
How does the daily charge work?
The fee section of the Act says the $250 registration fee grows by $10 on every day of Mississippi business without a registration, and that the extra stops at $1,000 in any year of unregistered business. So thirty days of unregistered work puts the bill at $550, ninety days at $1,150, and a full year or more at $1,250, a total built from the $250 fee and the $1,000 ceiling. The count starts on the day the LLC begins doing business here, which is why the application asks for the date it first did or intends to. The daily charge page has the arithmetic and the other consequences.
What Mississippi charges by entity type
| Entity | Filing | Schedule ID | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limited liability company | Application for registration | F0200 | $250 |
| Business corporation | Application for certificate of authority | F0002 | $500 |
| Nonprofit corporation | Application for certificate of authority | F0002 | $100 |
| Limited partnership | Application for registration | F0300 | $250 |
| Limited liability partnership | Statement of qualification | FSO720 | $250 |
Corporations have a separate F0002 page. The fee page adds the later filings, from amendments to reinstatement.
Why the home-state certificate has an age limit
Along with the application, the Act wants an authenticated certificate of existence, or an equivalent paper, from the home official. The guide sets an age limit: a home-state good standing certificate no more than six months old. A company registered long ago in Delaware or Wyoming should expect to order a new certificate rather than reuse a drawer copy. What the certificate costs is on the pages for Delaware and Wyoming LLCs.
Who can be the Mississippi registered agent?
A Mississippi resident can be the agent, and so can a corporation, nonprofit or LLC that is organized or authorized in Mississippi; either way the business office has to be the registered office. The application names the agent with a street and a mailing address, and the Secretary of State is the fallback for legal papers. The agent page covers changes, resignations and commercial agents.
What the yearly report costs a foreign LLC
A Mississippi LLC files its annual report at no cost, and a foreign LLC pays $250. The report is filed online and falls due April 15. A report still missing 60 days after its due date gives the Secretary of State a basis to begin revoking the registration. The yearly report page walks through the 7 items it asks for.
What happens if you wait?
Waiting costs the daily charge, and it also costs access to the courts: a foreign LLC that is transacting business may not bring a suit in a Mississippi court until it has registered. It leaves the LLC's contracts intact, lets the other side sue on them, and still allows the LLC to defend itself in court. Members are not liable for the company's debts just because it went unregistered, and the state becomes the LLC's recipient for papers on claims tied to the Mississippi business.
Leaving Mississippi
An LLC that stops working in Mississippi closes its registration with a certificate of cancellation, F0203, for $25. Cancelling ends the agent's role, and from then on the Secretary of State takes service for Mississippi-era claims. The cancellation page has the steps.
How long does Mississippi take to approve a registration?
Mississippi publishes no processing time for a foreign LLC registration. The Act does set out what the office does when it approves: it marks the application Filed with the date and time and returns a copy, and that stamp is conclusive evidence of the filing date. Because the daily charge runs until registration, the practical move is to order the home certificate the day you decide to register.
What the first year adds up to
The state's part is small once the LLC is registered. Registration is $250 and the first yearly report is another $250, so a company that registers and keeps going pays $750 over its first two reports. A Delaware LLC adds Delaware's tax, which brings its first year to $650, and a Wyoming LLC adds its annual minimum, for $310. The costly mistake is delay, not the filing: three months of unregistered work adds $900 on top of the fee.
Three mistakes that cost money
The first is an old home certificate, which sends the application back and restarts the wait while the daily charge runs. The second is an agent without a street address in Mississippi, which fails the Act's office rule. The third is forgetting the yearly report because a Mississippi LLC pays nothing: a foreign LLC pays $250, and a report that is 60 days late can end in revocation.
Where we fit
Plenty of owners file this alone, and our self-filing page shows how. The part we take over is the assembly: your answers become the application, the home certificate is checked against the age limit, the agent address is tested, and the filing is sent. We charge $199 and the state charges $250; checkout shows them on separate lines.
Registered agent: first year included, then $149 a year
$199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Our fee and Mississippi's
Register before the days add up
Mississippi$199
+ $250 Mississippi fee
- Your answers turned into the Mississippi foreign LLC application
- Your formation-state certificate held up against the age limit
- An agent at a Mississippi street address, from us or from you
- The registration as filed, delivered to you
- Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year
The state portion is $250. Checkout lists it on its own line. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Mississippi foreign LLC registration questions
What is the total cost of a Mississippi foreign LLC registration?
$250 to the state, plus $199 from us. If the LLC has already been working here, add $10 for each day, to $1,000 a year.
Is there a fee every year?
After registration, a foreign LLC files a yearly report costing $250, due April 15. A Mississippi LLC files its report at no cost.
Does Mississippi need a certificate of good standing?
Yes. The guide asks for one from the formation state dated within six months.
How long does approval take?
Mississippi does not publish a processing time.
Can the LLC be its own registered agent?
Not unless it is itself authorized in Mississippi; the agent keeps its office at the registered address.
What if we already did business here?
The daily charge applies for the unregistered days, and the LLC cannot sue in Mississippi courts until it registers. Contracts stay valid.
Can I file it myself?
Yes. It is filed in the Secretary of State portal.
How do I leave Mississippi?
File a certificate of cancellation for $25.
Sources
- Mississippi Secretary of State, business filing fee schedule
- Mississippi Limited Liability Company Act (Secretary of State copy)
- Start Your Business in Mississippi, registering foreign companies
- Mississippi Secretary of State, business FAQs
- Mississippi Secretary of State, annual reports
- Mississippi Secretary of State, services and fees schedule
- Mississippi Secretary of State, warning about misleading annual report mailers
- Delaware Division of Corporations, LLC/LP/GP annual tax
- Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division fee schedule
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