Updated August 10, 2026. Quick answer. Forming an LLC in Kansas costs $85 online / $90 by paper to file, and an ongoing report requirement ($90 online / $110 by paper, filed BIENNIALLY (Kansas now calls it an ‘information report’)). Five-year total: At least $355 over five years — one or more components (commonly the franchise/minimum tax) is unverified, so treat this as a floor, not a total.
Same question in other states: How Much Does an LLC Cost in North Dakota?, How Much Does an LLC Cost in Oklahoma? and How Much Does an LLC Cost in Pennsylvania?
What it actually costs
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Formation filing fee | $85 online / $90 by paper |
| Annual/biennial report | $90 online / $110 by paper, filed BIENNIALLY (Kansas now calls it an ‘information report’) |
| Franchise / minimum tax | none found in the sources searched |
| Publication requirement | No newspaper publication requirement was found. |
Five-year cost of ownership: At least $355 over five years — one or more components (commonly the franchise/minimum tax) is unverified, so treat this as a floor, not a total. Publication cost is excluded from this figure — it’s county-driven where it applies, not state-driven, so a single number would be wrong for most filers.
The trap worth knowing before you file
Fee amounts from the Secretary of State’s own current forms, read directly: DL (Rev. 2/27/26) and https://www.sos.ks.gov/forms/business_services/ILC.pdf (Rev. 1/23/26). Frequency, due date and delinquency confirmed against the statute at https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch17/017_076_0139.html and the fee-delegation provision at https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch17/017_076_0136.html , plus the SOS information-reports page https://sos.ks.gov/businesses/information-reports.html . Statute and agency schedule do not conflict; the statute sets a base ($80) and a cap ($150) a
Source
K.S.A. 17-7673 (articles of organization), 17-76,136 (fees), 17-76,139 (business entity information report). Read 2026-08-06 from official. Formation-service sites were not used as a source for this figure.
Once the LLC exists, an operating agreement is what actually runs it
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If the LLC already exists somewhere else
Everything above prices forming a new Kansas LLC. A company that already exists in another state does not have to be dissolved and re-formed: Kansas takes it in as the same legal entity by the route its own code captions domestication, K.S.A. 17-78-501 through 17-78-506, and Kansas does not publish that filing as a single fee, so this page gives no number for it — it is in any case separate from the formation costs above. Going the other way, the same section carries the company back out to another US state. Either way the move needs both ends to allow it — the state being left as well as the state being joined — which is where most published advice goes wrong.
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What letting it lapse costs in Kansas. The catch-up bill is only half the story — in Kansas no deadline, and back reports are capped at ten years — but Kansas reserves the name for nobody, so the form has a substitute-name line from the start. The figures, and the statute they come from, are on reinstating a Kansas LLC.
Kansas LLC Information Report: Formation-Year Parity, April 15, and Three-Month Delinquency
Use these official filing checkpoints when reconciling the recurring-cost estimate on this page.
- Kansas information reports are biennial and follow the parity of the formation year.
- For-profit businesses file by April 15 in the applicable odd or even year.
- After a three-month delinquency interval, forfeiture blocks other filings until past-due reports are submitted and the business is reinstated.
Match the entity’s formation or registration record, filing mode, and current status to the controlling rule before submitting; use the official filing authority for the current interface.
Compare LLC reporting systems across all jurisdictions, then verify this state’s rule in the official source.
Looking for the annual-report due date and fee instead? See Kansas LLC annual report.
Related: Kansas’s registered agent requirements, including who can serve and what happens if you don’t have one.
Related: Kansas’s LLC Certificate of Good Standing cost, including who issues it and how fast you can get one.