SD · read September 28, 2026

South Dakota LLC cost

What South 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: $150 source, read 2026-09-28 note
Periodic report: Annual Report, every year
Report fee: $55 source, read 2026-09-28 pages disagree
Report due: on the 1st day of the anniversary month of the original filing, every year 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.

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South Dakota LLC filing fee

$150 to file the Articles of Organization

Note from the reading Online fee. Paper filing is $165, which the fee schedule says includes the $15 paper filing fee.

“Domestic Articles of Organization Filed Electronically online $150 Filed via Paper (includes paper filing fee) $165”

Read 2026-09-28 (UTC) at sdsos.gov/general-information/filing-fees.aspx

South Dakota LLC annual report and due date

$55 to file the Annual Report, every year

Official pages disagree

CONFLICT on the late fee only (not a recorded value): the fee schedule https://sdsos.gov/general-information/filing-fees.aspx , the FAQ page and the paper annual report form https://sdsos.gov/docs/business/domesticllcannualreport20250701.pdf all say $55 for a delinquent annual report, while the online filing instructions https://sosenterprise.sd.gov/BusinessServices/Business/AnnualReportInstr.aspx say 'an additional $50 late fee per Annual Report'. The paper annual report form states 'FILING FEE: $70', agreeing with the schedule. The Department of Revenue page https://dor.sd.gov/businesses/taxes/ states 'South Dakota does not impose a corporate income tax.'

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 Online fee. Paper filing is $70 (includes the $15 paper filing fee). The due rule is stated on the Secretary of State's FAQ page https://sdsos.gov/business-services/corporations/contact.aspx : 'Annual reports are due every year on the 1st day of the anniversary month of when the business was initially filed.' The same page says a report may be filed from 2 months before the due date, and that the entity becomes delinquent 2 months after the due date, when a $55 late fee applies.

Report: Annual Report
Required: Yes
How often: Every year
Fee: $55
Due: on the 1st day of the anniversary month of the original filing, every year
Calendar date: None: the date depends on when the LLC was formed
Read: 2026-09-28 (UTC)

“Annual Report Filed Electronically online $55 Filed via Paper (includes paper filing fee) $70”

Read 2026-09-28 (UTC) at sdsos.gov/general-information/filing-fees.aspx

South Dakota LLC annual tax or franchise tax

not read

Not read. No official page read today states whether South Dakota charges LLCs an annual, franchise or privilege tax. The Department of Revenue page says only that the state does not impose a corporate income tax, which is not a statement about an LLC annual tax.

Not read is not the same as no tax. It means no official page was read that says whether South 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 today states a newspaper publication requirement for an LLC, or the absence of one.

Filing office and the state's own forms

South Dakota Secretary of State, Business Services

File online sosenterprise.sd.gov
Fee schedule sdsos.gov
LLC forms sdsos.gov
File an annual report sosenterprise.sd.gov
Business FAQs sdsos.gov

Looked for and not read

An official statement on whether an LLC owes any annual state tax separate from the annual report fee.
An official statement on newspaper publication for LLCs.

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.

Quotes from the fee schedule are table cells read left to right and joined with spaces; the page shows them in separate cells under the heading 'Limited Liability Company (LLC) - Domestic & Foreign'. CONFLICT on the late fee only (not a recorded value): the fee schedule https://sdsos.gov/general-information/filing-fees.aspx , the FAQ page and the paper annual report form https://sdsos.gov/docs/business/domesticllcannualreport20250701.pdf all say $55 for a delinquent annual report, while the online filing instructions https://sosenterprise.sd.gov/BusinessServices/Business/AnnualReportInstr.aspx say 'an additional $50 late fee per Annual Report'. The paper annual report form states 'FILING FEE: $70', agreeing with the schedule. The Department of Revenue page https://dor.sd.gov/businesses/taxes/ states 'South Dakota does not impose a corporate income tax.'

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.