KY · read September 28, 2026
Kentucky LLC cost
What Kentucky's official pages state about the cost of a standard domestic LLC: the filing fee, the annual report and any annual tax, each with the page it was read on and the date.
- Formation document
- Articles of Organization
- Formation fee
- $40 source, read 2026-09-28 note
- Periodic report
- Annual Report, every year
- Report fee
- $15 source, read 2026-09-28 note
- Report due
- By June 30 each year; reports can be filed any time between January 1 and June 30 source, read 2026-09-28
- Annual tax
- from $175, Limited Liability Entity Tax (LLET) source, read 2026-09-28 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.
Kentucky LLC filing fee
$40 to file the Articles of Organization
Note from the reading Listed under 'Domestic Limited Liability Company (Profit, Non-Profit or Professional Service)'. The page states one fee and no separate online or paper fee. The paper form KLC (7/25) states the same: 'The filing fee for the document is $40.00.' (https://web.sos.ky.gov/forms/corp/KLC-Articles%20of%20Organization-Profit%20Limited%20Liability%20Company.pdf). The form says the fee is waived for a veteran-owned business under KRS 14A.2-165.
“Articles of Organization: $40.00”
Kentucky LLC annual report and due date
$15 to file the Annual Report, every year
Note from the reading The fee schedule page lists the same amount for a domestic LLC ('Annual Report: $15.00', https://www.sos.ky.gov/bus/business-filings/Pages/Fees.aspx). Domestic entities that fail to file by June 30 are administratively dissolved; the reinstatement penalty listed on the fee page is $100.00.
- Report
- Annual Report
- Required
- Yes
- How often
- Every year
- Fee
- $15
- Due
- By June 30 each year; reports can be filed any time between January 1 and June 30
- Calendar date
- June 30
- Read
- 2026-09-28 (UTC)
“Your annual report must be signed, dated and accompanied by a $15 filing fee.”
Kentucky LLC annual tax or franchise tax
from $175 Limited Liability Entity Tax (LLET). A minimum: every LLC the tax reaches pays at least this
The rule $175 is the minimum, paid when total gross receipts or total gross profits are $3 million or less. Above $6 million the tax is the smaller of 0.095% of Kentucky gross receipts or 0.75% of Kentucky gross profits; between $3 million and $6 million a sliding-scale formula applies.
Note from the reading Paid to the Kentucky Department of Revenue, not the Secretary of State, and separate from the $15 annual report. The due date of the LLET return was not stated on the page read (the page gives only estimated-payment installment dates). The page says some business types are statutorily exempt.
- Due
- not read
- Read
- 2026-09-28 (UTC)
“If either total gross receipts or total gross profits amounts to $3 million or less, then the company just pays a $175 minimum LLET.”
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
Kentucky Secretary of State, Business Filings
- Online services (FastTrack) www.sos.ky.gov
- Fee schedule www.sos.ky.gov
- Annual reports www.sos.ky.gov
- Business forms library www.sos.ky.gov
- Department of Revenue: Corporation Income and Limited Liability Entity Tax revenue.ky.gov
Looked for and not read
- The due date of the Limited Liability Entity Tax return: not stated on the Department of Revenue page read.
- https://revenue.ky.gov/Business/Limited-Liability-Entity-Tax/Pages/default.aspx returned 404; the LLET was read on the combined Corporation Income and LLET page instead.
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.
tax.amount_usd is the $175 MINIMUM Limited Liability Entity Tax, not a flat amount for every LLC; the rule field carries the rest. The generator should present it as 'from $175'. The form's instructions mention a copy for the local county clerk's office; that is a recording step, not newspaper publication, and the pages read do not state whether it is mandatory for an LLC. publication.required=false rests on absence in the official instructions. PUBLICATION (orchestrator, 2026-09-28): recorded as not read. The researcher observed: No newspaper publication step appears in the instructions on the Articles of Organization form; this is read from absence, not from an explicit statement that none is required. The form's instructions do refer to delivering a copy of the filing to the local county clerk's office.
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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.