DC · read September 28, 2026
District of Columbia LLC cost
What District of Columbia's official pages state about the cost of a standard domestic LLC: the filing fee, the biennial report and any annual tax, each with the page it was read on and the date.
- Formation document
- Articles of Organization
- Formation fee
- $99 source, read 2026-09-28 note
- Periodic report
- Biennial Report, every 2 years
- Report fee
- $300 source, read 2026-09-28 note
- Report due
- first report by April 1 of the year after registration, then by April 1 every two years source, read 2026-09-28
- Annual tax
- not read note
- Tax due
- not read
- Publication
- not read
Scope: a standard domestic LLC at standard processing speed, filed online where the online and paper fees differ. The figure shown is the one the cited page states; an add-on or a paper fee that the page also states is in the note under the figure, and nothing is computed from a note.
District of Columbia LLC filing fee
$99 to file the Articles of Organization
Note from the reading Form DLC-1 is titled 'Articles of Organization'; the fee table names the same filing 'Certificate of organization'. The form itself states no amount ('Refer to Corporate Fee Schedule posted online'). Walk-in customers are charged a $100 one-day expedited fee on top.
“Domestic Limited Liability Company Certificate of organization $99.00”
District of Columbia LLC biennial report and due date
$300 to file the Biennial Report, every 2 years
Note from the reading Also called the two-year report. Late fee $100.00. Due rule read at https://dlcp.dc.gov/service/domestic-limited-liability-company : 'First reports are due April 1st of the very next year from the year of registration.' and 'Subsequent reports are due April 1st every two years thereafter.'
- Report
- Biennial Report
- Required
- Yes
- How often
- Every 2 years
- Fee
- $300
- Fee per year
- $150 (computed: $300 every 2 years)
- Due
- first report by April 1 of the year after registration, then by April 1 every two years
- Calendar date
- April 1
- Read
- 2026-09-28 (UTC)
“Domestic & Foreign Limited Liability Company Biennial report $300.00”
District of Columbia LLC annual tax or franchise tax
not read
Not read. No official statement was read today on whether the state charges LLCs an annual, franchise or privilege tax separate from the report fee.
Not read is not the same as no tax. It means no official page was read that says whether District of Columbia charges an LLC an annual, franchise or privilege tax separate from the report fee.
Publication requirement
not read
Not read. No official page read today states whether a newspaper publication is required of a new LLC; the formation pages read list no publication step.
Filing office and the state's own forms
DC Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection, Corporations Division
- LLC fees dlcp.dc.gov
- Domestic LLC: how to register dlcp.dc.gov
- Domestic LLC forms dlcp.dc.gov
Looked for and not read
- Any annual tax on LLCs (no Office of Tax and Revenue page was read).
- Whether newspaper publication is required.
The researcher's notes
Written by the researcher who read the pages, unedited. Field names such as due_kind are the names in this site's data file.
The fee page was reached at https://dlcp.dc.gov/node/1621921, which serves https://dlcp.dc.gov/page/corporations-division-fees-limited-liability-company. Most other domestic LLC filings on that table are $220.00; the $99.00 for the certificate of organization is what the page states today. The Office of Tax and Revenue page https://otr.cfo.dc.gov/page/dc-business-franchise-tax-rates lists an Unincorporated Business Franchise Tax ('$250 minimum tax, if DC gross receipts are $1 million or less', for businesses with gross receipts more than $12,000); that page does not say whether or how it applies to an LLC, so tax stays null.
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Fees change. The state's own page is the authority: open the source link beside a figure before you file or pay. This desk is a reading of public pages. It is not legal advice and it is not tax advice.