Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: Mississippi permits it, in both directions, under Miss. Code Ann. § 79-37-501(a): the statute itself uses the word ‘domestication,’ so there is no keyword-search trap. The catch is currency, not vocabulary: the mechanism only took effect January 1, 2015, so any source describing Mississippi as not permitting domestication is more than a decade out of date. The Statement of Domestication filing fee is $50. This page covers the entity-law half only.
What Mississippi’s statute actually says
Section 79-37-501(a) reads: ‘Except as otherwise provided in this section, by complying with this article, a domestic entity may become a domestic entity of the same type of entity in a foreign jurisdiction if the domestication is authorized by the law of the foreign jurisdiction’: the standard reciprocity condition running against the destination state’s law, confirmed verbatim on re-fetch this session. The Mississippi Entity Conversion and Domestication Act was enacted with an effective date of January 1, 2015; before that date, Mississippi’s LLC statute had no comparable jurisdiction-change mechanism, which is the likely source of any stale ‘Mississippi doesn’t allow this’ claim still circulating.
What the filing costs
Outbound, a Mississippi LLC files a Statement of Domestication (MS SOS form F0401) with the Mississippi Secretary of State under § 79-37-505. The current official fee document (a 2026-05-21 capture of sos.ms.gov’s own Business Services & Fees PDF, used because the live URL blocks outside access) lists, under a section titled ‘Other Business Services’: ‘Conversion …. $50’ and ‘Domestication …. $50’ as two separate $50 line items.
That is the entity-law filing fee only. It is not the cost of leaving, and anyone who tells you the cost of leaving Mississippi 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 Mississippi’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 Mississippi 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 Mississippi, and why it is wrong
A claim, plausible as of pre-2015 law, that Mississippi does not permit LLC domestication.
The Mississippi Entity Conversion and Domestication Act took effect January 1, 2015, and the current (2026) official Secretary of State fee document still lists an active $50 Domestication filing; any table still marking Mississippi as non-permitting is over a decade stale.
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 move-to-another-state guide, which covers Delaware’s route directly. 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.
- Mississippi: https://codes.findlaw.com/ms/title-79-corporations-associations-and-partnerships/ms-code-sect-79-37-501.html. Statutory text, independently re-verified 2026-09-03, matches dataset.