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What Does an LLC Cost in Georgia?

Georgia is one of the cleaner totals in this guide: $110 to form, $60 a year to register, and no other flat state charge for a typical LLC. The traps are a stale $100 quote, a corporation publication rule that does not apply to LLCs, and a $25 late penalty for missing April 1.

By the LLCForming research teamFees checked Nov 8, 2026

Year one: what you pay to exist

Year-one cost in Georgia	Amount
Articles of Organization filing fee	$100
Service charge (required, online or paper)	$10
Newspaper publication for an LLC	$0. Georgia publication is a corporation rule only.
EIN from the IRS	$0
Operating agreement (you write it, not filed)	$0
Total state cost, year one	$110

That $110 is the complete required state charge in year one. There is no Annual Registration in the formation year, no statewide general license fee, and no state DBA fee to add, because a Georgia trade name is a county filing whose amount varies by county. Optional state extras exist if you choose them: a $35 name reservation before you file, and expedited processing at $120 for two business days, $275 for same day, or $1,200 for one hour, each on top of the filing fee. A commercial registered agent, if you hire one instead of naming a qualifying individual or entity yourself, adds that provider's own yearly price, which is a private charge and not a state fee.

Every year after: the cost of staying alive

Recurring cost in Georgia	Amount
Annual Registration, filed January 1 to April 1	$60
Annual Registration late penalty, if filed after April 1	$25, added to the $60
Net worth tax on a default LLC taxed as a partnership or disregarded entity	$0
State entity-level income tax on a default pass-through LLC	$0
Typical recurring total	$60/yr on time

The $60 Annual Registration is a filing fee, not a tax, and it is the only recurring flat state charge a default Georgia LLC carries. Georgia classifies an LLC as a partnership for state income tax purposes unless it is classified otherwise for federal purposes, in which case Georgia follows the federal classification. Income passes through to the members. An LLC that elects corporate treatment moves into corporate income tax and net worth tax, which are election-dependent and income-based, so they are not part of the flat totals here. Sales and use tax, employer withholding, and unemployment obligations turn on what the business actually does, not on the LLC existing.

What drives the Georgia total, year one vs. later

Georgia splits its cost into two simple parts. Year one is the $110 formation payment, a $100 filing fee plus the $10 service charge that explains why honest totals and advertised totals differ by exactly ten dollars on this state. Nothing else is owed to the state that year, because the first Annual Registration is deliberately deferred to the January 1 to April 1 window of the following calendar year. Later years are driven by that registration alone: $60 a year, every year, in the same fixed window regardless of when during the prior year you formed. The Georgia pattern is therefore flat and predictable. Year one costs $110, a normal later year costs $60, and the only ways a later year costs more are the $25 late penalty for filing after April 1 or, far worse, letting the registration lapse into administrative dissolution and paying the $260 reinstatement plus every delinquent registration and penalty to come back. Georgia also keeps two famous phantom charges out of the total: there is no LLC newspaper publication charge, because publication is a corporation rule, and there is no net worth tax on a default LLC, because the Department of Revenue applies that tax only to an LLC treated as a corporation for income tax purposes.

The Georgia fee schedule, beyond formation

Most Georgia LLC owners only ever pay the $110 and the $60. The rest of the Corporations Division schedule matters at specific moments: qualifying from another state, changing your agent, closing, or recovering from a missed registration. The current figures, effective September 6, 2025:

Item	Figure
Foreign LLC Certificate of Authority (Form CD 241)	$235 ($225 plus $10 service charge)
Foreign LLC late penalty, business started more than 30 days before applying	$500 plus all fees that would have been imposed
Amended Annual Registration, for example an agent change	$30 ($20 plus $10 service charge)
Name reservation, 30 days	$35 ($25 plus $10 service charge)
Reinstatement after administrative dissolution, within 5 years	$260 ($250 plus $10 service charge), plus delinquent registrations and penalties
Certificate of Termination (Form CD 415), filed online	$0
Certificate of Termination, filed on paper	$10 service charge

Two of these lines deserve emphasis. Closing a Georgia LLC on purpose is free online, which makes the $260 reinstatement route for a neglected LLC a purely avoidable expense. And the trade name line that belongs on this table does not exist: a Georgia DBA is recorded with the county Clerk of Superior Court, published in the county legal organ once a week for two consecutive weeks, never needs renewal, and is priced by the county, so any site printing one statewide Georgia DBA fee is printing a number the state does not publish.

Run your own version, with an optional registered agent added, in the LLC cost calculator. Every state's year-one and recurring totals sit in one table on the national cost hub, and if a service would act as your agent, the registered agent price tracker follows what that costs at each tracked provider. If you would rather a service handled the filing, the services comparison prices that honestly, renewals included.