Vermont Foreign LLC Registration

Vermont LLC registration at a glance

Filing

Foreign Registration (Register a Foreign Business Online) (no form number)

State fee

$155 filing fee

Total with us

$354, first year of Vermont registered agent service included

Online processing

less than one business day

Home-state certificate

Required, dated within 90 days

Vermont yearly filing

Annual Report, $170, every year

Filed with

Vermont Secretary of State, Business Services Division

What the Vermont filing asks for

For the filing, Vermont 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 Vermont 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 90 days when Vermont receives it

LLC into Vermont, by home state

The first-year total adds the home state's certificate fee to the $354 checkout total; the certificate is ordered from that state.

When Vermont expects an LLC to register

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

If you do business in Vermont without registering

An unregistered LLC doing business there cannot start a lawsuit in Vermont courts until it registers. Its contracts stay valid, and it can still defend a case brought against it. Vermont penalties for unregistered business: $50 a day, up to $10,000 a year. With no registered agent on file, legal papers can be served through the Vermont Secretary of State.

Vermont registered agent rule

Vermont requires every registered foreign LLC to keep a registered agent there. Vermont allows an individual resident of Vermont or a business organization that has a place of business in Vermont and is authorized to conduct business there to serve. The agent must agree to serve before Vermont accepts the appointment. Switching agents later costs $35. A resigning agent stays responsible for 30 days after filing the resignation. Our $199 includes the first year of Vermont registered agent service, then $149 a year.

Vermont yearly filings

Once registered, your LLC files the Vermont Annual Report every year, at $170, due within 3 months after end of the foreign LLC's fiscal year on record. The Vermont filing window opens first day after fiscal-year-end and closes last day of the 3rd month after fiscal-year-end. From year two, keeping the Vermont registration costs $319 a year with our registered agent service.

How long Vermont takes

We file it online with the Vermont Secretary of State. Vermont online processing: less than one business day. Vermont by mail processing: seven to ten business days.

Leaving Vermont later

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