Mississippi Foreign LLC Registration: Form F0200

Mississippi LLC registration at a glance

Filing

Form F0200, Application for Registration of Foreign Limited Liability Company

State fee

$250 filing fee

Total with us

$449, first year of Mississippi registered agent service included

Home-state certificate

Required, dated within 180 days

Mississippi yearly filing

Annual Report, $250, every year

Filed with

Mississippi Secretary of State, Business Services

What Form F0200 asks for

For Form F0200, Mississippi needs:

• The exact name of your LLC as formed
• The state it was formed in and its date of formation
• A Mississippi 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 180 days when Mississippi receives it

LLC into Mississippi, by home state

The first-year total adds the home state's certificate fee to the $449 checkout total; the certificate is ordered from that state.

When Mississippi expects an LLC to register

Mississippi law lists 11 activities that do not, on their own, count as doing business in Mississippi (Miss. Code Ann. 79-29-1015). A one-off transaction completed within 30 days, and not one of a series, does not count either. Owning property there, without more, is not doing business either. Interstate commerce alone, such as shipping into Mississippi from outside, is also on the list. These rules decide registration only; Mississippi 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 Mississippi without registering

An unregistered LLC doing business there cannot start a lawsuit in Mississippi 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. Mississippi penalties for unregistered business: $10 a day, up to $1,000 a year. The Mississippi attorney general can ask a court to stop the LLC doing business there until it registers. With no registered agent on file, legal papers can be served through the Mississippi Secretary of State.

Mississippi registered agent rule

Mississippi requires every registered foreign LLC to keep a registered agent there. The agent's address must be a street address in Mississippi, not a P.O. box. Switching agents later costs $10. A resigning agent stays responsible for 90 days after filing the resignation. Our $199 includes the first year of Mississippi registered agent service, then $149 a year.

Mississippi yearly filings

Once registered, your LLC files the Mississippi Annual Report every year, at $250, due April 15. The Mississippi filing window opens January 1 and closes April 15. From year two, keeping the Mississippi registration costs $399 a year with our registered agent service.

How long Mississippi takes

We file Form F0200 with the Mississippi Secretary of State.

Leaving Mississippi later

If your LLC stops doing business there, it ends the registration by filing a Certificate of Cancellation of Foreign Limited Liability Company. Until that is filed, Mississippi's yearly filing stays due.