RI · read September 28, 2026
Rhode Island LLC cost
What Rhode Island'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
- $150 source, read 2026-09-28 note
- Periodic report
- Annual Report, every year
- Report fee
- $50 source, read 2026-09-28 note
- Report due
- filed between February 1 and May 1 each year, starting the calendar year after the LLC registers source, read 2026-09-28
- Annual tax
- $400, Annual charge (minimum tax), Rhode Island Division of Taxation source, read 2026-09-28 note
- Tax due
- by March 15 each year with Form RI-1065 for an LLC treated as a pass-through entity (or Form RI-1120S if treated as an S corporation); by April 15 with Form RI-1120C if treated as a corporation 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.
Rhode Island LLC filing fee
$150 to file the Articles of Organization
Note from the reading Form 400 (revised 03/2026). The Costs & Fees chart also lists $150 as the 'Initial RI Dept. of State Filing Fee' for an LLC. Whether online filing adds an Enhanced Access fee to the $150 (as it does for annual reports) was not read.
“DOMESTIC Limited Liability Company Filing Fee: $150.00”
Rhode Island LLC annual report and due date
$50 to file the Annual Report, every year
Note from the reading Filing fee $50 (online or paper Form 632). Filing online adds an 'Enhanced Access Online Fee' of $2.50, so $52.50 online. Late filing penalty: $25 applied June 1 (plus $3.00 to file online).
- Report
- Annual Report
- Required
- Yes
- How often
- Every year
- Fee
- $50
- Due
- filed between February 1 and May 1 each year, starting the calendar year after the LLC registers
- Calendar date
- May 1
- Read
- 2026-09-28 (UTC)
“Limited Liability Company (LLC) February 1 – May 1”
Rhode Island LLC annual tax or franchise tax
$400 Annual charge (minimum tax), Rhode Island Division of Taxation
Note from the reading Applies to multi-member and single-member LLCs, for any year in which the business exists, including the year formed and the year dissolved; it is not pro-rated. An LLC treated as a corporation pays the greater of corporate income tax (7% of net income) or the $400 annual charge. $400 applies for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2017.
- Due
- by March 15 each year with Form RI-1065 for an LLC treated as a pass-through entity (or Form RI-1120S if treated as an S corporation); by April 15 with Form RI-1120C if treated as a corporation
- Calendar date
- March 15
- Read
- 2026-09-28 (UTC)
“Pay an annual charge of $400.”
Publication requirement
not read
Not read. No official page read states either that publication is required or that it is not; Form 400's instructions and the Costs & Fees page do not mention a publication step.
Filing office and the state's own forms
Rhode Island Department of State, Business Services Division
- File online business.sos.ri.gov
- Costs and fees www.sos.ri.gov
- Articles of Organization, Form 400 (PDF) docs.sos.ri.gov
- File your annual report www.sos.ri.gov
- Annual report, Form 632 (PDF) docs.sos.ri.gov
- Division of Taxation Notice 2025-01: filing requirements for LLCs (PDF) tax.ri.gov
Looked for and not read
- Whether filing the Articles of Organization online carries an Enhanced Access fee on top of $150.
- A 2026 edition of the Division of Taxation's LLC notice, if one exists, was not found; the notice read is dated February 14, 2025.
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.
report.fee_usd is the stated filing fee ($50); the online total is $52.50 because the annual report table has a separate 'Enhanced Access Online Fee' column ($2.50). The schema asks for the online figure where online and paper differ: here the filing fee itself is the same and the $2.50 is a separate access fee, so the generator may show $52.50 if it wants the cash total. The Secretary of State's Costs & Fees page (https://www.sos.ri.gov/divisions/business-services/business-basics/costs-and-fees) agrees with the tax notice: 'required to pay a minimum annual tax of $400 to the Rhode Island Division of Taxation', and 'The tax is owed whether or not business is conducted or a profit is made.' The tax notice gives the pass-through due date as 'File Form RI-1065 each year by March 15' with a footnote that March 15, 2025 fell on a Saturday, moving that year's date to March 17. No conflict between pages.
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