Colorado

Foreign registration · no form number

Missouri LLC Foreign Registration in Colorado

To do business in Colorado, an LLC formed in Missouri registers there on an online registration (no form number), with $100 in state fees. Colorado needs nothing from Missouri: no Certificate of Good Standing. We file it with the Secretary of State, Business Program from your Missouri records, then serve as your registered agent there for year one.

Missouri and Colorado side by side

	Missouri formed here	Colorado registering here
Document	Missouri Certificate of Good Standing (not needed here)	Statement of Foreign Entity Authority (no form number)
State fee	$10	$100 at order
How it is handled	Missouri: online with a verification number anyone can check, or by mail	Filed online with Colorado
Office	Missouri Secretary of State, Corporations Division	Colorado Secretary of State, Business Program
Official page	sos.mo.gov	coloradosos.gov
Yearly filing	No annual report	Periodic Report, $25, every year
Due		Last day of the entity's anniversary month
Agent	Your Missouri registered agent	Our Colorado registered agent

From Missouri to Colorado, step by step

We prepare and file the registration
It lists us as your Colorado registered agent, next to your Missouri name and formation date. Nothing has to come from Missouri first, so the Colorado filing can go in right away. Once Colorado approves it, the Missouri company can do business there.

Your Missouri name and Colorado's rules

If Colorado's records show it taken, you can use an alternate name for the Missouri company. We search Colorado's records for Missouri's name on file before anything is filed.

Agents: Colorado and Missouri

Missouri and Colorado both call it a registered agent. Colorado papers come to us; Missouri's agent is unchanged.

Staying in good standing in Missouri and Colorado

Missouri has no annual report for LLCs; Colorado wants the Periodic Report every year ($25). The new registration does not replace any home-state filing.

LLC or corporation, Missouri to Colorado

A corporation formed in Missouri files its own registration with Colorado ($100 in state fees, the same; no home-state certificate is needed). After that come Missouri's Corporate Registration Report ($15) and Colorado's Periodic Report ($25). See the corporation filing.

The other way: Colorado into Missouri

An LLC formed in Colorado that registers with Missouri files Form LLC 4 with $105 in state fees, plus the Certificate of Good Standing (free) dated within 60 days. See that filing.

Common questions: Missouri to Colorado

Does my Missouri company need to register in Colorado?

Yes, once a Missouri business operates there; Colorado law lists 12 activities that do not count on their own.

How much does it cost to register a Missouri LLC in Colorado?

$299 at checkout, with nothing to pay Missouri.

Do I need Missouri's certificate of good standing?

No, Colorado takes the registration without it.

What are the yearly costs for Missouri and Colorado?

Our registered agent renewal ($149 a year), no Missouri yearly report and Colorado's report ($25).

What if I don't register with Colorado?

Colorado can charge a Missouri company up to $100 for each year or part of a year and a civil penalty of up to $5,000.

Does Colorado require a registered agent?

Yes: the Missouri registered agent stays, and ours covers Colorado for year one.

Will Colorado accept my Missouri name?

Yes, if no company there has it; if one does, it uses an alternate name there and keeps its Missouri name at home.

Can I form a new Colorado LLC instead?

Yes, but Missouri keeps the original, so you run two companies: the new one files Colorado's Periodic Report ($25), and Missouri has no yearly report for the original.

How do I withdraw from Colorado later?

Missouri companies leave by filing a Statement of Foreign Entity Withdrawal ($10); until then, Colorado's report stays due alongside Missouri's filings.

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