Oklahoma Foreign Corporation Qualification: Form 0012

Oklahoma corporation qualification at a glance

Filing

Form 0012, Certificate of Qualification (Foreign Corporation)

State fee

$300 filing fee ($312 with the charges Oklahoma collects at filing)

Total with us

$511, first year of Oklahoma registered agent service included

Home-state certificate

Set by the state

Oklahoma yearly filing

Annual Certificate, $10, every year

Filed with

Oklahoma Secretary of State, Business Filing Department

What Form 0012 asks for

For Form 0012, Oklahoma needs:

• The exact name of your corporation as formed
• The state it was formed in and its date of formation
• A Oklahoma registered agent with a street address there; we fill in ours
• A principal office address

Corporation into Oklahoma, by home state

Every home state pays the same $511 at checkout for Oklahoma.

When Oklahoma expects a corporation to register

These rules decide registration only; Oklahoma tax nexus and lawsuits follow their own tests. An office, staff, or regular sales and contracts there are what typically lead to registration.

If you do business in Oklahoma without registering

An unregistered corporation doing business there cannot start a lawsuit in Oklahoma courts until it registers. Its contracts stay valid, and it can still defend a case brought against it. Oklahoma penalties for unregistered business: $25 a day, up to $500 a year, a civil penalty of up to $500 and a fine of at least $200. The Oklahoma attorney general can ask a court to stop the corporation doing business there until it registers.

Oklahoma registered agent rule

Oklahoma requires every registered foreign corporation to keep a registered agent there. Oklahoma allows an individual resident of Oklahoma or a domestic or qualified foreign business entity with a business office at the registered office to serve. The agent's address must be a street address in Oklahoma, not a P.O. box. Switching agents later costs $25. A resigning agent stays responsible for 30 days after filing the resignation. Our $199 includes the first year of Oklahoma registered agent service, then $149 a year.

Oklahoma yearly filings

Once registered, your corporation files the Oklahoma Annual Certificate every year, at $10, due on the anniversary of the foreign corporation's qualification in Oklahoma, every year. The Oklahoma filing window opens 60 days before anniversary of qualification and closes Anniversary of qualification. From year two, keeping the Oklahoma registration costs $159 a year with our registered agent service.

How long Oklahoma takes

We file Form 0012 with the Oklahoma Secretary of State.

Leaving Oklahoma later

If your corporation stops doing business there, it ends the registration by filing a Certificate of Withdrawal (Foreign Corporation). Until that is filed, Oklahoma's yearly filing stays due.