Alaska Foreign LLC Registration: Form 08-0497

Alaska LLC registration at a glance

Filing

Form 08-0497, Certificate of Registration, Foreign Limited Liability Company

State fee

$350 filing fee

Total with us

$549, first year of Alaska registered agent service included

Online processing

online filings post as soon as they are paid

Home-state certificate

Required

Alaska yearly filing

Biennial Report, $200, every two years

Filed with

Alaska Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing

What Form 08-0497 asks for

For Form 08-0497, Alaska needs:

• The exact name of your LLC as formed
• The state it was formed in and its date of formation
• A Alaska registered agent with a street address there; we fill in ours
• A principal office address
• A certificate of good standing from the home state

LLC into Alaska, by home state

The first-year total adds the home state's certificate fee to the $549 checkout total; the certificate is ordered from that state.

When Alaska expects an LLC to register

Alaska law lists 9 activities that do not, on their own, count as doing business in Alaska. A one-off transaction completed within 30 days, and not one of a series, does not count either. An office, staff, or regular sales and contracts there are what typically lead to registration.

If you do business in Alaska without registering

An unregistered LLC doing business there cannot start a lawsuit in Alaska courts until it registers. Its contracts stay valid, and it can still defend a case brought against it. Members and managers do not become personally liable just because the LLC skipped registration. Alaska penalties for unregistered business: a civil penalty of up to $10,000. When it does register, Alaska collects the fees it would have charged for the years it went unregistered. The Alaska attorney general can ask a court to stop the LLC doing business there until it registers.

Alaska registered agent rule

Alaska requires every registered foreign LLC to keep a registered agent there (AS 10.50.635). Switching agents later costs $25 on Form 08-409. Our $199 includes the first year of Alaska registered agent service, then $149 a year.

Alaska yearly filings

Once registered, your LLC files the Alaska Biennial Report every two years, at $200, due January 2 of the filing year. The Alaska filing window opens October 2 of the preceding year and closes January 2 of the filing year. Filing it late adds $47.50.

How long Alaska takes

We file Form 08-0497 with the Alaska Division of Corporations. Alaska online processing: online filings post as soon as they are paid.

Leaving Alaska later

If your LLC stops doing business there, it ends the registration by filing Form 08-502, Certificate of Cancellation, Foreign Limited Liability Company ($25). Until that is filed, Alaska's yearly filing stays due.