Updated August 10, 2026. Quick answer. Forming an LLC in Texas costs $300 to file, and an ongoing report requirement ($0 — no Secretary of State periodic report; an annual Public Information Report or Ownership Report is filed with the Comptroller at no fee). Five-year total: $300 over five years, every component verified.
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What it actually costs
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Formation filing fee | $300 |
| Annual/biennial report | $0 — no Secretary of State periodic report; an annual Public Information Report or Ownership Report is filed with the Comptroller at no fee |
| Franchise / minimum tax | Franchise tax; no tax due at or below $2,650,000 total revenue (2026 and 2027 report years). Rates 0.375% retail/wholesale, 0.75% other. |
| Publication requirement | No newspaper publication requirement was found. |
Five-year cost of ownership: $300 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: $50 per document standard expedited (2-3 business days); $500 per document next-day; $750 per document same-day
Once the LLC exists, an operating agreement is what actually runs it
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The trap worth knowing before you file
ACCESS: https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/formationfees.shtml and https://www.sos.texas.gov/corp/formationfees.shtml both returned HTTP 403 even when the request identified itself as an ordinary browser; web.archive.org has no capture of that path (CDX query returned an empty set). The SOS’s own fee schedule was reached instead at https://direct.sos.state.tx.us/help/help-corp.asp?pg=fee (200), reachable via https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/forms_boc.shtml (200) — the block is path-specific, not domain-wide. That fee page is footered ‘Revised 1/12’, so the statutory fee text was used as the controlling autho
Source
Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code sec. 4.152, sec. 4.154 (filing fees); Tex. Tax Code ch. 171 (franchise tax); Tex. Gov’t Code sec. 405.032 (expedited handling). 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 Texas LLC. A company that already exists in another state does not have to be dissolved and re-formed: Texas takes it in as the same legal entity by the route its own code captions conversion, Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 1.002(10); § 10.101, and the entity-law filing fee for it is $300 — a separate filing from the formation costs above. Going the other way, a Texas LLC may leave for another US state under Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 1.002(10); § 10.154(a). 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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