MD · read September 28, 2026
Maryland LLC cost
What Maryland'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
- $100 source, read 2026-09-28 note
- Periodic report
- Annual Report (Form 1, Annual Report and Business Personal Property Return), every year
- Report fee
- $300 source, read 2026-09-28 note
- Report due
- By April 15 each year; an extension can be requested by April 15 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.
Maryland LLC filing fee
$100 to file the Articles of Organization
Note from the reading Base filing fee with non-expedited processing (technology fee $0.00 in that column); online payments through Maryland Business Express add a 3% service fee for credit card or PayPal. Expedited processing adds $50 and rush (same-day) adds $325. The paper form (Rev. 05/2026) gives the same standard fee, 'Fee: $100', processing time 6 to 8 weeks, and the SDAT charter fee schedule (revised May 2024) lists 'Articles of Organization $100 (domestic)'.
“Limited Liability Company Articles of Organization $100.00 $325.00 $50.00 $0.00”
Maryland LLC annual report and due date
$300 to file the Annual Report (Form 1, Annual Report and Business Personal Property Return), every year
Note from the reading The $300 is for the Annual Report only; the same page says 'There is no fee for the Personal Property Tax Return.' Online card or PayPal payments add 3%. The due date was read on the 2026 Form 1 ('Due April 15th', and the fee row 'Domestic or Foreign Limited Liability Company (W) or (Z) $300': https://dat.maryland.gov/SiteAssets/Pages/sdatforms/2026_Form1%20Final%20(6).pdf) and in SDAT's press release of 2026-02-27: 'business entities must file an annual report or request an extension by April 15'.
- Report
- Annual Report (Form 1, Annual Report and Business Personal Property Return)
- Required
- Yes
- How often
- Every year
- Fee
- $300
- Due
- By April 15 each year; an extension can be requested by April 15
- Calendar date
- April 15
- Read
- 2026-09-28 (UTC)
“Domestic Limited Liability Company $300.00 Credit Card or PayPal: 3%”
Maryland LLC annual tax or franchise tax
not read
Not read. No official page was read that states whether Maryland charges LLCs an annual, franchise or privilege tax separate from the $300 annual report fee. The annual report is filed together with a Business Personal Property Return, which has no filing fee; any personal property tax assessed from that return was not read and is not a flat LLC tax.
Not read is not the same as no tax. It means no official page was read that says whether Maryland 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
Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation (SDAT)
- File online (Maryland Business Express) egov.maryland.gov
- Fee schedule (Maryland Business Express) egov.maryland.gov
- SDAT charter fee schedule (PDF) dat.maryland.gov
- Articles of Organization form (PDF) dat.maryland.gov
- SDAT forms and applications dat.maryland.gov
Looked for and not read
- Whether Maryland charges LLCs any annual or franchise tax separate from the annual report fee: no official statement read.
- https://dat.maryland.gov/businesses/Pages/annual-report.aspx returned 404; the due date was read on the 2026 Form 1 and a 2026 SDAT press release 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.
The fee quotes are table rows from the Maryland Business Express fee schedule. Formation row cells: filing type, base filing fee, rush processing, expedited processing, non-expedited processing; the technology fee cell that follows reads 'Credit Card or PayPal: 3%'. Official pages differ on how they state the same-day fee, without contradicting the standard fee: the fee schedule PDF (revised May 2024, https://dat.maryland.gov/businesses/Documents/FEES.pdf) gives a rush add-on of $325 online and $425 on paper, while the Articles of Organization form (Rev. 05/2026) gives same-day totals of $425 online and $525 on paper, which are the add-ons plus the $100 fee. The form's 'Expedited Filing Fee: $150' is likewise $100 plus $50. The form's note on the annual report misspells the entity as 'LLLC'. Maryland's annual fee is the report fee itself; tax.applies is null rather than false because no official page read says in words that no other annual LLC tax exists. publication.required=false rests on absence in the official form instructions. PUBLICATION (orchestrator, 2026-09-28): recorded as not read. The researcher observed: No publication step appears in the instructions on SDAT's Articles of Organization form; this is read from absence, not from an explicit statement that none is required.
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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.