Updated August 10, 2026. Quick answer. Forming an LLC in Oregon costs $100 to file, and an ongoing report requirement ($100). Five-year total: At least $600 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 | $100 |
| Annual/biennial report | $100 |
| Franchise / minimum tax | Not verified — see notes |
| Publication requirement | No newspaper publication requirement was found. |
Five-year cost of ownership: At least $600 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
oregon.public.law reproduces the verbatim codified text and is typed statute-tier per the contract’s rule 2 (and consistently with the colorado/oregon.public.law precedent noted there). Also read https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_63.007 and https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_63.787, plus the SOS renewal page https://sos.oregon.gov/business/register/Pages/renewal-help.aspx (official) for the notice-mailing practice. ACCESS NOTE: https://sos.oregon.gov/business/Pages/business-fee-schedule.aspx is 404 — the Oregon SOS publishes no consolidated business fee schedule at that path, which is
Source
ORS 56.140 (filing, service, copying and certification fees); ORS 63.007 (fees, cross-referencing 56.140); ORS 63.787 (annual report). 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 Oregon LLC. A company that already exists in another state does not have to be dissolved and re-formed: Oregon takes it in as the same legal entity by the route its own code captions conversion, ORS 63.470(1)(a), and the entity-law filing fee for it is $100 as the agency last published it (that fee page carries no date) — a separate filing from the formation costs above. Going the other way, an Oregon LLC may leave for another US state under ORS 63.470(2). 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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Once the LLC exists, an operating agreement is what actually runs it
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