Arkansas Foreign LLC Registration: Form FL-01

Arkansas LLC registration at a glance

Filing

Form FL-01, Application for Certificate of Registration of Foreign Limited Liability Company

State fee

$270 filing fee

Total with us

$469, first year of Arkansas registered agent service included

Standard processing

three to five business days

Home-state certificate

Required, dated within 30 days

Arkansas yearly filing

Annual LLC Franchise Tax Report, $150, every year

Filed with

Arkansas Secretary of State, Business and Commercial Services

What Form FL-01 asks for

For Form FL-01, Arkansas needs:

• The exact name of your LLC as formed, or an alternate name if that name is taken there
• The state it was formed in and its date of formation
• A Arkansas registered agent with a street address there; we fill in ours
• A principal office address
• A certificate of good standing from the home state, no older than 30 days when Arkansas receives it

LLC into Arkansas, by home state

The first-year total adds the home state's certificate fee to the $469 checkout total; the certificate is ordered from that state.

When Arkansas expects an LLC to register

Arkansas law lists 11 activities that do not, on their own, count as doing business in Arkansas. An office, staff, or regular sales and contracts there are what typically lead to registration.

If you do business in Arkansas without registering

An unregistered LLC doing business there cannot start a lawsuit in Arkansas courts until it registers. Its contracts stay valid, and it can still defend a case brought against it. Arkansas penalties for unregistered business: a civil penalty of up to $5,000. When it does register, Arkansas collects the fees it would have charged for the years it went unregistered. The Arkansas attorney general can ask a court to stop the LLC doing business there until it registers.

Arkansas registered agent rule

Arkansas requires every registered foreign LLC to keep a registered agent there. The agent's address must be a street address in Arkansas, not a P.O. box. Our $199 includes the first year of Arkansas registered agent service, then $149 a year.

Arkansas yearly filings

Once registered, your LLC files the Arkansas Annual LLC Franchise Tax Report every year, at $150, due May 1. The Arkansas filing window opens January 1 and closes May 1. Filing it late adds $25. From year two, keeping the Arkansas registration costs $299 a year with our registered agent service.

How long Arkansas takes

We file Form FL-01 with the Arkansas Secretary of State. Arkansas standard processing: three to five business days.

Leaving Arkansas later

If your LLC stops doing business there, it ends the registration by filing Form FL-04, Application for Cancellation by Foreign Limited Liability Company. Until that is filed, Arkansas's yearly filing stays due.