Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: Michigan does permit it, in both directions, under MCL 450.4708: the statute is captioned ‘conversion,’ which is why Michigan is sometimes missing entirely from domestication-permitted lists rather than merely miscategorized. The outbound Certificate of Conversion filing fee is $25. This page covers the entity-law half only.
The statute, and why Michigan gets miscounted
MCL 450.4708(1) provides that ‘A domestic limited liability company may convert into a business organization if the conversion is permitted by the law that will govern the internal affairs of the business organization after conversion and the surviving business organization complies with that law in converting’: an explicit destination-jurisdiction reciprocity condition. Section 4708(4) contemplates the cross-border case directly, subjecting a resulting foreign business organization to Michigan’s transacting-business laws if it does business in Michigan. The reach into out-of-state entities comes from MCL 450.4705a(1)(a)’s definition of ‘business organization,’ which covers ‘a domestic or foreign corporation, … limited partnership, … or any other type of domestic or foreign business enterprise … except a domestic limited liability company.’ Because the statute is captioned only ‘conversion’ and never ‘domestication,’ a list built by matching that specific word will miss Michigan outright rather than merely miscategorizing it.
What the filing costs
For an outbound move, a domestic Michigan LLC converting into a foreign business organization files a Certificate of Conversion (LARA form CSCL/CD 754) with Michigan’s Corporations, Securities & Commercial Licensing Bureau. Because the surviving entity is not a Michigan LLC, no accompanying Michigan Articles of Organization is required: only the Certificate of Conversion itself, at $25. That’s distinct from the inbound direction, which requires the same $25 certificate plus a $50 Articles of Organization filing ($75 total).
That is the entity-law filing fee only. It is not the cost of leaving, and anyone who tells you the cost of leaving Michigan is a filing fee is selling something.
The part this page does not answer
The reason people search for this is usually not the filing. It is the tax exposure: what Michigan’s own revenue agency does when you leave, whether a final return is due, and whether the state agrees the entity has actually stopped doing business there. Those questions are governed by Michigan tax law and administrative practice, not by the entity-law citation above, and this cluster does not source them. We have the entity-law answer at primary and the tax answer not at all.
Two things worth knowing even so, both the general shape rather than a state-specific finding: changing the entity’s state of organization does not by itself end an obligation to register as a foreign LLC anywhere you still do business, and a state’s revenue department is a separate counterparty from its filing office. If you are moving to cut a tax bill, the entity move is the easy half.
This page sells nothing and links to no filing service. Moving an LLC is a filing-desk task with a statutory answer, and the answer is either in your two states’ codes or it is not.
What is commonly published about Michigan, and why it is wrong
A domestication-states list (llcdojo.com, citing Fortenberry Law as of January 2022) omits Michigan from its affirmative list of states that allow LLC domestication, implying Michigan does not permit it.
MCL 450.4708 and 450.4709 together permit both directions, and LARA’s own current form (CSCL/CD 754) processes exactly this transaction with a published fee schedule: the omission traces to Michigan’s mechanism being named ‘conversion,’ not to the underlying law.
Check both ends of the move, not just the destination
A move needs two things to be true: your destination has to let the entity in, and your current state has to let it out. Nine states have no statutory route out, so an LLC formed in one of them cannot domesticate anywhere, however welcoming the destination is. That is where most published advice goes wrong; it checks one end.
| State you would be leaving | Why there is no route out | What the code offers instead |
|---|---|---|
| Delaware | the statute affirmatively limits it | 6 Del. C. § 18-209 |
| Kentucky | nothing in the code permits it | KRS 275.345 to 275.365 |
| Massachusetts | the statute affirmatively limits it | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 156C, § 59(b) |
| Missouri | nothing in the code permits it | Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 347.127 to 347.135 |
| New Mexico | nothing in the code permits it | NMSA 1978 § 53-19-62 |
| New York | nothing in the code permits it | NY LLC Law § 1001(b), certificate of merger under § 1003 |
| South Carolina | the statute affirmatively limits it | S.C. Code Ann. § 33-44-904 |
| Washington | the statute affirmatively limits it | RCW 25.15.416 to 25.15.431 |
| West Virginia | nothing in the code permits it | W. Va. Code § 31B-9-904, articles of merger under § 31B-9-905 |
Delaware is the surprise on that list and it is not a mistake; see the Delaware page. For the other eight, the substitute is a merger, not a dissolution: form the new entity in the destination state and merge the old one into it. 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 does.
The full 51-jurisdiction table is on the domestication states list; the three routes are compared on how to move an LLC to another state.
Sources
Every row on this page is statutory text. No formation service, no registered-agent marketing page and no aggregator is cited anywhere in this cluster; those are the only publishers of the competing versions.
- Michigan: https://legislature.mi.gov/Home/RenderDoc?objectName=mcl-450-4708. Statutory text, independently attempted re-verification 2026-09-03: both legislature.mi.gov and www.legislature.mi.gov failed to answer securely, and a law.justia.com cross-check for the same section also failed. Could not independently confirm this session; using the dataset’s verbatim-quoted text as read 2026-08-12..