Colorado Foreign LLC Registration

Colorado LLC registration at a glance

Filing

Statement of Foreign Entity Authority (no form number)

State fee

$100 filing fee

Total with us

$299, first year of Colorado registered agent service included

Home-state certificate

Not required

Colorado yearly filing

Periodic Report, $25, every year

Filed with

Colorado Secretary of State, Business Program

What the Colorado filing asks for

For the filing, Colorado 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, plus the date it began (or will begin) doing business in Colorado
• A Colorado registered agent with a street address there; we fill in ours
• A principal office address that is a street address, not a P.O. box
• Every answer in English

Colorado also lets the registration take effect on a later date, up to 90 days after filing.

Colorado takes this filing online only; there is no paper version.

LLC into Colorado, by home state

Every home state pays the same $299 at checkout for Colorado.

When Colorado expects an LLC to register

Colorado law lists 12 activities that do not, on their own, count as doing business in Colorado. A one-off transaction completed within 30 days, and not one of a series, does not count either. Colorado looks at remote employees under its general rule rather than a fixed list. An office, staff, or regular sales and contracts there are what typically lead to registration.

If you do business in Colorado without registering

Its contracts stay valid, and it can still defend a case brought against it. Colorado penalties for unregistered business: up to $100 for each year or part of a year and a civil penalty of up to $5,000. The Colorado attorney general can ask a court to stop the LLC doing business there until it registers.

Colorado registered agent rule

Colorado requires every registered foreign LLC to keep a registered agent there. The agent must agree to serve before Colorado accepts the appointment. Our $199 includes the first year of Colorado registered agent service, then $149 a year.

Colorado yearly filings

Once registered, your LLC files the Colorado Periodic Report every year, at $25, due last day of the entity's anniversary month. It goes to Colorado Secretary of State, online. The Colorado filing window opens first day of the 2nd month before the periodic report month and closes last day of the 2nd month after the periodic report month. Filing it late adds $50. From year two, keeping the Colorado registration costs $174 a year with our registered agent service.

How long Colorado takes

We file it online with the Colorado Secretary of State.

Leaving Colorado later

If your LLC stops doing business there, it ends the registration by filing a Statement of Foreign Entity Withdrawal ($10). Until that is filed, Colorado's yearly filing stays due.