IA · read September 28, 2026

Iowa LLC cost

What Iowa'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: Certificate of Organization
Formation fee: $50 source, read 2026-09-28 note
Periodic report: Biennial Report, every 2 years
Report fee: $30 source, read 2026-09-28 pages disagree
Report due: In every odd-numbered year: filing opens January 1 and the report is due by April 1 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.

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Iowa LLC filing fee

$50 to file the Certificate of Organization

Note from the reading Listed under 'Limited Liability Company - Domestic'. The double asterisk marks filings that can also be made online through Fast Track Filing; the page states one fee and no separate paper fee.

“**Certificate of Organization - $50”

Read 2026-09-28 (UTC) at sos.iowa.gov/businesses/business-entity-forms-and-fees

Iowa LLC biennial report and due date

$30 to file the Biennial Report, every 2 years

Official pages disagree

Conflict on the due date between two pages of the same office: the forms-and-fees page (https://sos.iowa.gov/businesses/business-entity-forms-and-fees) says the biennial report is 'due by April 1st', while the Business FAQ (https://sos.iowa.gov/businesses/business-faqs) says reports 'are to be filed by March 31 every odd or even year depending on the type of entity'. The fee page's April 1 is recorded, per the schema's rule; a filer who wants to be safe under both wordings files by March 31. In the biennial fee line the asterisk after $30 and $45 refers to the footnote that nonprofit corporations pay no fee. publication.required=false rests on absence in the official pages. PUBLICATION (orchestrator, 2026-09-28): recorded as not read. The researcher observed: No publication step appears on the Secretary of State's forms-and-fees page or Business FAQ; this is read from absence, not from an explicit statement that none is required.

These are the words of the researcher who read the pages. A figure shown here is the one stated by the page cited under it. Ask the office which applies before you pay.

Note from the reading $30 by online filing, $45 by paper. Due only in odd-numbered years for LLCs. The Secretary of State's Business FAQ page words the deadline as March 31 (see researcher_notes).

Report: Biennial Report
Required: Yes
How often: Every 2 years
Fee: $30
Fee per year: $15 (computed: $30 every 2 years)
Due: In every odd-numbered year: filing opens January 1 and the report is due by April 1
Calendar date: April 1
Read: 2026-09-28 (UTC)

“Every Odd numbered year beginning January 1st and due by April 1st. The fee is $30* by online filing or $45* by paper.”

Read 2026-09-28 (UTC) at sos.iowa.gov/businesses/business-entity-forms-and-fees

Iowa LLC annual tax or franchise tax

not read

Not read. No official page was read that states whether Iowa charges LLCs an annual, franchise or privilege tax separate from the biennial report fee. The Secretary of State pages read do not mention one; Iowa Department of Revenue pages were not read.

Not read is not the same as no tax. It means no official page was read that says whether Iowa charges an LLC an annual, franchise or privilege tax separate from the report fee.

Publication requirement

not read

Not read. No official page that was read states a publication rule either way.

Filing office and the state's own forms

Iowa Secretary of State, Business Services

File online (Fast Track Filing) filings.sos.iowa.gov
Business entity forms and fees sos.iowa.gov
Business FAQs sos.iowa.gov

Looked for and not read

https://help.sos.iowa.gov/how-do-i-file-biennial-report (Fast Track Filing Resource Center) returned HTTP 403 to an automated fetch and was not read.
Whether Iowa charges LLCs any annual or franchise tax separate from the biennial report fee: no official statement read.

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.

Conflict on the due date between two pages of the same office: the forms-and-fees page (https://sos.iowa.gov/businesses/business-entity-forms-and-fees) says the biennial report is 'due by April 1st', while the Business FAQ (https://sos.iowa.gov/businesses/business-faqs) says reports 'are to be filed by March 31 every odd or even year depending on the type of entity'. The fee page's April 1 is recorded, per the schema's rule; a filer who wants to be safe under both wordings files by March 31. In the biennial fee line the asterisk after $30 and $45 refers to the footnote that nonprofit corporations pay no fee. publication.required=false rests on absence in the official pages. PUBLICATION (orchestrator, 2026-09-28): recorded as not read. The researcher observed: No publication step appears on the Secretary of State's forms-and-fees page or Business FAQ; this is read from absence, not from an explicit statement that none is required.

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.