NJ · read September 28, 2026

New Jersey LLC cost

What New Jersey'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: Certificate of Formation (Public Records Filing for New Business Entity)
Formation fee: not settled: the state's own pages say $100 and $125 pages disagree
Periodic report: Annual Report, every year
Report fee: $75 source, read 2026-09-28 note
Report due: every year by the last day of the month in which the business was formed source, read 2026-09-28
Annual tax: By rule: Partnership Filing Fee source, read 2026-09-28 note
Tax due: the 15th day of the fourth month after the end of the tax year (April 15 for a calendar-year LLC) source, read 2026-09-28
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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New Jersey LLC filing fee

Not settled the state's own pages say $100 and $125

No figure is shown for New Jersey, and it takes no part in any ranking of formation fees. The page cited below is one of the pages read; the note names the others.

Official pages disagree and the conflict could not be resolved: the Division's fee schedule page and its Getting Registered page say $100; the fee schedule inside the Division's own filing form instructions says $125. See researcher_notes.

The formation document is the Certificate of Formation (Public Records Filing for New Business Entity).

Official pages disagree

CONFLICT on the formation fee, unresolved. (1) https://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/fees.shtml ('Last Updated: Wednesday, 07/01/26'), under 'Limited Liability Company (LLC) Filing Fees': 'Certificate of formation $100.00'. (2) https://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/gettingregistered.shtml : 'The fee is $100 for all for-profit entities and Foreign Non-Profit corporations.' (3) https://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/pdf/NJ_Public_Records_Filing.pdf , the filing form's instructions, 'FEE SCHEDULE (Revised 4/20/2011)', 'BASIC FILING FEES': 'Filing fee for all domestic entities, except non-profits, is $125 per filing'. The brief says to prefer the fee schedule or the filing form; here the fee schedule says $100 and the filing form says $125, so fee_usd is null rather than a guess. The formation.source records the more recently dated of the two so the generator has a citation if the orchestrator decides to accept $100. The two web pages are newer and agree with each other; the PDF is the document a paper filer actually sends. Someone should confirm the amount on the online service's payment screen. The annual report fee has no conflict: fees.shtml, Business.NJ.gov and the Division's 2019 notice (https://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/pdf/Notice-Filing-Fees7-1-19-r4.pdf) all say $75. business.nj.gov answered a plain command-line fetch with HTTP 403 and was read through the web-fetch tool. The Partnership Filing Fee is conditional (more than two owners and New Jersey source income); it is recorded as tax.applies true with the rule, and does not fall on single-member or two-member LLCs.

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 Two official amounts were read today, $100 and $125; neither is recorded as the fee.

“Limited Liability Company (LLC) Filing Fees Certificate of formation $100.00”

Read 2026-09-28 (UTC) at www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/fees.shtml

New Jersey LLC annual report and due date

$75 to file the Annual Report, every year

Note from the reading $75 since July 1, 2019 (previously $50). Due rule read at https://business.nj.gov/pages/filings-and-accounting : 'The report is due every year on the last day of the month, in the month in which you completed your business formation (LLC, Corporation, etc).' Expediting is not available for annual reports.

Report: Annual Report
Required: Yes
How often: Every year
Fee: $75
Due: every year by the last day of the month in which the business was formed
Calendar date: None: the date depends on when the LLC was formed
Read: 2026-09-28 (UTC)

“Annual Report $75.00”

Read 2026-09-28 (UTC) at www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/fees.shtml

New Jersey LLC annual tax or franchise tax

By rule Partnership Filing Fee. Not one amount: the rule below says who pays and how much

The rule An LLC classified as a partnership that has more than two owners and New Jersey source income or loss pays $150 for each owner, up to a maximum of $250,000, reported on Form NJ-1065, plus one-half of that amount as a prepayment toward the next year's fee. An LLC with one or two owners does not pay it.

not a flat amount; $150 per owner

Note from the reading due_month_day applies to calendar-year filers only. There is no extension of time to pay the fee. Technical Bulletin TB-55(R) was issued July 13, 2016; the amount was not re-checked against the current NJ-1065 instructions.

Due: the 15th day of the fourth month after the end of the tax year (April 15 for a calendar-year LLC)
Calendar date: April 15, for a calendar-year LLC
Read: 2026-09-28 (UTC)

“a partnership that has more than two owners and New Jersey source income (or loss), must pay a per-owner filing fee”

Read 2026-09-28 (UTC) at www.nj.gov/treasury/taxation/pdf/pubs/tb/tb55.pdf

Publication requirement

not read

Not read. No official page read today states whether newspaper publication is required; the Public Records Filing instructions do not mention one.

Filing office and the state's own forms

New Jersey Department of the Treasury, Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services

File online (business formation) www.njportal.com
Fee schedule www.nj.gov
Public Records Filing form and instructions (PDF) www.nj.gov
Getting registered www.nj.gov
File an annual report www.njportal.com
Taxes and annual report (Business.NJ.gov) business.nj.gov
Partnerships (Division of Taxation) www.nj.gov
TB-55(R) Partnership Filing Fee (PDF) www.nj.gov

Looked for and not read

The formation fee actually charged by the online filing service: the payment step is reached only by completing a filing, so it was not seen.
Whether publication is required: not stated on the pages 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 formation fee, unresolved. (1) https://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/fees.shtml ('Last Updated: Wednesday, 07/01/26'), under 'Limited Liability Company (LLC) Filing Fees': 'Certificate of formation $100.00'. (2) https://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/gettingregistered.shtml : 'The fee is $100 for all for-profit entities and Foreign Non-Profit corporations.' (3) https://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/pdf/NJ_Public_Records_Filing.pdf , the filing form's instructions, 'FEE SCHEDULE (Revised 4/20/2011)', 'BASIC FILING FEES': 'Filing fee for all domestic entities, except non-profits, is $125 per filing'. The brief says to prefer the fee schedule or the filing form; here the fee schedule says $100 and the filing form says $125, so fee_usd is null rather than a guess. The formation.source records the more recently dated of the two so the generator has a citation if the orchestrator decides to accept $100. The two web pages are newer and agree with each other; the PDF is the document a paper filer actually sends. Someone should confirm the amount on the online service's payment screen. The annual report fee has no conflict: fees.shtml, Business.NJ.gov and the Division's 2019 notice (https://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/pdf/Notice-Filing-Fees7-1-19-r4.pdf) all say $75. business.nj.gov answered a plain command-line fetch with HTTP 403 and was read through the web-fetch tool. The Partnership Filing Fee is conditional (more than two owners and New Jersey source income); it is recorded as tax.applies true with the rule, and does not fall on single-member or two-member LLCs.

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.