ND · read September 28, 2026
North Dakota LLC cost
What North Dakota'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
- $135 source, read 2026-09-28 note
- Periodic report
- Annual Report, every year
- Report fee
- $50 source, read 2026-09-28 note
- Report due
- by November 15 each year; the first report is due in the year following the calendar year in which the LLC was first registered 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.
North Dakota LLC filing fee
$135 to file the Articles of Organization
Note from the reading The page calls the fee 'Registration (domestic and foreign)' and says an LLC 'is created by filing articles of organization'. Filing is through the FirstStop Portal; no separate paper fee is stated.
“Registration (domestic and foreign) - $135”
North Dakota LLC annual report and due date
$50 to file the Annual Report, every year
Note from the reading November 15 applies to a business LLC (and PLLC). Farming or ranching LLCs and authorized livestock farm LLCs have an April 15 deadline. Reports received after the deadline incur a late filing fee (amount not stated on the pages read).
- Report
- Annual Report
- Required
- Yes
- How often
- Every year
- Fee
- $50
- Due
- by November 15 each year; the first report is due in the year following the calendar year in which the LLC was first registered
- Calendar date
- November 15
- Read
- 2026-09-28 (UTC)
“Annual Report (domestic and foreign) - $50”
North Dakota LLC annual tax or franchise tax
not read
Not read. No official page was found that states whether North Dakota charges LLCs an annual, franchise or privilege tax separate from the annual report fee. The Secretary of State's LLC page lists no such charge, but does not say there is none.
Not read is not the same as no tax. It means no official page was read that says whether North Dakota charges an LLC an annual, franchise or privilege tax separate from the report fee.
Publication requirement
not read
Not read. No official page read states either that publication is required or that it is not; the LLC page does not mention a publication step.
Filing office and the state's own forms
North Dakota Secretary of State
- File online (FirstStop Portal) firststop.sos.nd.gov
- LLC fees and requirements www.sos.nd.gov
- Maintain registration (annual report deadlines) www.sos.nd.gov
Looked for and not read
- Any official statement on whether an annual LLC tax or franchise tax exists in North Dakota.
- The late filing fee for an annual report received after November 15.
- The FirstStop Portal is a script-driven application; its own fee display was not readable by fetch.
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 November 15 deadline is stated on both the LLC page ('Filing Deadline - November 15') and the Maintain Registration page (https://www.sos.nd.gov/business/business-services/maintain-registration), which also states the first-report rule. The older URL .../limited-liability-companies/limited-liability-company-llc/llc-fees.html redirects to the LLC page cited here. No conflict between pages.
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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.