Updated August 10, 2026. Quick answer. Forming an LLC in New York costs $200 to file, and an ongoing report requirement ($9 biennial statement). Five-year total: $352 over five years, every component verified.
What it actually costs
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Formation filing fee | $200 |
| Annual/biennial report | $9 biennial statement |
| Franchise / minimum tax | $25–$4,500 annual NYS filing fee (Form IT-204-LL), based on prior-year New York source gross income |
| Publication requirement | REQUIRED — 6 consecutive weeks in 2 county-designated newspapers, then a $50 Certificate of Publication. The $50 is the ONLY verifiable figure; the newspaper cost is county-driven and no official source publishes a range. |
Five-year cost of ownership: $352 over five years, every component verified. 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.
Expedited filing: $25 24-hour; $75 same-day; $150 2-hour
The trap worth knowing before you file
Other URLs used, all official/statutory: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LLC/1101 (fee schedule), https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LLC/301 (biennial statement), https://dos.ny.gov/expedited-handling-services (expedite), https://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/it/it204lli.pdf (IT-204-LL-I fee table). ACCESS NOTE for future runs: nysenate.gov serves statute text fine to the fetch tool but Cloudflare-challenges curl even with a browser user-agent — the opposite of most sites on this project. NEW YORK’S REAL COST SHAPE, since a flat table gets it backwards in both directions: t
Source
N.Y. Ltd. Liab. Co. Law § 206 (publication); § 301(e) (biennial statement); § 1101(c), (f), (s) (fees); N.Y. Tax Law § 658 as implemented by Form IT-204-LL. Read 2026-08-06 from statute. Formation-service sites were not used as a source for this figure.
If the LLC already exists somewhere else
Everything above prices forming a new New York LLC. A company that already exists in another state cannot become a New York one: New York is one of the eight jurisdictions with no jurisdiction-change route in either direction, and there is no section to cite, because nothing in the code read permits it. The substitute is a merger — form a New York LLC, then merge the older company into it, under NY LLC Law § 1001(b), certificate of merger under § 1003 ($60 to file). A merger produces a surviving entity rather than a continuation, so it is genuinely not the same thing as domestication, but it keeps far more alive than dissolving and re-forming does.
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