Updated August 10, 2026. Quick answer. Forming an LLC in Utah costs $59 to file, and an ongoing report requirement ($18). Five-year total: $149 over five years, every component verified.
What it actually costs
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Formation filing fee | $59 |
| Annual/biennial report | $18 |
| Franchise / minimum tax | $0 for an LLC taxed as a partnership; $100 minimum if the LLC is taxed as a C corporation |
| Publication requirement | No newspaper publication requirement was found. |
Five-year cost of ownership: $149 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: $75 per filing
The trap worth knowing before you file
ACCESS: corporations.utah.gov/business-entities/fee-schedule/ 301-redirects to commerce.utah.gov/corporations/business-entities/fee-schedule/, which returns 404; the live schedule is the PDF linked as ‘Fee Schedule’ from https://commerce.utah.gov/corporations/, read with pypdf. le.utah.gov HTML section pages serve navigation chrome only (confirmed again this run on 48-3a-S212.html); the per-section PDF at https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title48/Chapter3a/C48-3a-S212_1800010118000101.pdf does return the statute and parsed cleanly with pypdf. Neither the renewal-process page nor the fee schedule state
Source
Utah Code sec. 48-3a-212 (annual report; repealed eff. 10/1/2026 by 2026 Gen. Sess. ch. 93); Utah Code sec. 59-7-104 (corporate minimum tax); Utah Div. of Corporations FY2026 Fee Schedule. 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 Utah LLC. A company that already exists in another state does not have to be dissolved and re-formed: Utah takes it in as the same legal entity by the route its own code captions domestication, Utah Code § 48-3a-1051(2), and the entity-law filing fee for it is $17 — a separate filing from the formation costs above. Going the other way, a Utah LLC may leave for another US state under Utah Code § 48-3a-1051(1). 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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