Updated August 10, 2026. Quick answer. Forming an LLC in Florida costs $125 required ($100 filing fee + $25 registered agent designation) to file, and an ongoing report requirement ($138.75). Five-year total: At least $819 over five years — one or more components (commonly the franchise/minimum tax) is unverified, so treat this as a floor, not a total.
What it actually costs
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Formation filing fee | $125 required ($100 filing fee + $25 registered agent designation) |
| Annual/biennial report | $138.75 |
| Franchise / minimum tax | Not verified — see notes |
| Publication requirement | No newspaper publication requirement was found. |
Five-year cost of ownership: At least $819 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
Official-tier from the Florida Division of Corporations’ own fee page. The fee statutes in Fla. Stat. ch. 605 were not fetched, so no statute-vs-agency comparison was possible for Florida; the statute citation above is nominal and should be treated as unverified.
Source
Fla. Stat. 605.0213 (fees) and 605.0212 (annual report) — cited from the Division of Corporations schedule; statutory text not separately fetched. Read 2026-08-06 from official. 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 Florida LLC. A company that already exists in another state does not have to be dissolved and re-formed: Florida takes it in as the same legal entity by the route its own code captions conversion, Fla. Stat. § 605.1041(3), and the entity-law filing fee for it is $25 — a separate filing from the formation costs above. Going the other way, a Florida LLC may leave for another US state under Fla. Stat. § 605.1041(1)(b). 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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