WI · read September 28, 2026
Wisconsin LLC cost
What Wisconsin'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 (Form 502)
- Formation fee
- $130 source, read 2026-09-28 note
- Periodic report
- Annual Report (Form 5), every year
- Report fee
- $25 source, read 2026-09-28 note
- Report due
- by the last day of the calendar quarter in which the anniversary of organization falls (March 31, June 30, September 30 or December 31), each year after the year of organization 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.
Wisconsin LLC filing fee
$130 to file the Articles of Organization (Form 502)
Note from the reading Online fee. Filing on paper costs $170.00 (the fee table's 'Incorporation/Organization' row, and the paper form: 'FILING FEE $170.00').
“Incorporation/Organization via Online Filing $100.00 $130.00”
Wisconsin LLC annual report and due date
$25 to file the Annual Report (Form 5), every year
Note from the reading Online fee. Filing on paper costs $40.00: a $15.00 paper surcharge has applied since March 1, 2024. The due rule was read on the annual report instructions, Form Corp5I (Revised May 2026), https://dfi.wi.gov/Documents/BusinessServices/BusinessEntities/Forms/CORP5i.pdf : 'The report must be filed during the calendar year quarter in which the anniversary date of the incorporation/organization occurs.' The same form lists 'Domestic (WI) Limited Liability Company 183 $25.00 per year'.
- Report
- Annual Report (Form 5)
- Required
- Yes
- How often
- Every year
- Fee
- $25
- Due
- by the last day of the calendar quarter in which the anniversary of organization falls (March 31, June 30, September 30 or December 31), each year after the year of organization
- Calendar date
- None: the date depends on when the LLC was formed
- Read
- 2026-09-28 (UTC)
“Annual Report via Online Filing $25.00 $25.00 $25.00”
Wisconsin LLC annual tax or franchise tax
not read
Not read. No official page read today states whether Wisconsin charges LLCs an annual, franchise or privilege tax separate from the annual report fee. The Department of Revenue's pages were not opened.
Not read is not the same as no tax. It means no official page was read that says whether Wisconsin 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. Form 502 and its instructions do not mention publication.
Filing office and the state's own forms
Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions, Division of Corporate and Consumer Services
- File online dfi.wi.gov
- Fee schedule dfi.wi.gov
- Articles of Organization (paper Form 502) dfi.wi.gov
- Annual report instructions (Form 5-I) dfi.wi.gov
Looked for and not read
- An official statement on whether an LLC owes any annual state tax separate from the annual report fee (Department of Revenue pages not read).
- An official statement on newspaper publication for LLCs.
- The online filing applications at apps.dfi.wi.gov refuse automated requests (403); the fees were read on the fee page and the forms 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.
HOW TO FIND THE QUOTES: the fee page is one table with a column per entity type, in this order: Business Corporation, Cooperative, Limited Liability Company, Limited Liability Partnership, Limited Partnership, Nonstock Corporation. Quotes give the row label and then the non-empty cells left to right. In the row 'Incorporation/Organization via Online Filing' the cells are $100.00 (business corporation), blank (cooperative), $130.00 (LLC). In the row 'Annual Report via Online Filing' the three filled cells are business corporation, LLC and nonstock corporation, each $25.00. The paper rows give $170.00 and $40.00 in the LLC column. No conflict: the fee page, Form 502 ($170.00 paper) and Form Corp5I ($25.00 per year, plus $15.00 on paper) agree. The due date is tied to the formation date by quarter, recorded as due_kind 'anniversary'.
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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.