Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: Connecticut permits it, in both directions, under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-641(b): a domestic entity may become a domestic entity of the same type in a foreign jurisdiction, provided the domestication is authorized by the law of the foreign jurisdiction, the familiar reciprocity condition. Connecticut is one of the cleaner statutes here: its 2014 entity-transactions law (Title 34, Chapter 616) keeps ‘domestication’ (Part V) and ‘conversion’ (Part IV, an in-state entity-type change) as separate, distinctly named parts, so there is little of the naming-trap confusion that trips up states like Delaware or Florida. The entity-law filing fee is a flat $100. This page covers the entity-law half only.
What Connecticut’s statute actually says
Section 34-641(b) reads: ‘Except as otherwise provided in this section, by complying with this part, a domestic entity may become a domestic entity of the same type in a foreign jurisdiction, provided the domestication is authorized by the law of the foreign jurisdiction.’ Subsection (a) defines ‘domestic entity,’ for purposes of this part, relative to whichever jurisdiction is at issue, and subsection (c) states the mirror-image inbound rule. Connecticut’s Secretary of the State form instructions spell out the fee split precisely: $100 for the Certificate of Domestication filing itself, plus a separate public-organic-document fee (for example, a Certificate of Organization) only triggered when the entity’s new home is Connecticut, i.e., only on the inbound side.
What the filing costs
Outbound, a Connecticut LLC files a Certificate of Domestication with the Connecticut Secretary of the State under C.G.S. § 34-645. The office’s own current Certificate of Domestication form (business.ct.gov, Rev. 12/2024) states the fee is $100, with an added public-organic-document fee only when the domesticated entity’s new jurisdiction is Connecticut (the inbound case): ‘a Connecticut LLC domesticating to Delaware: the total fee is $100.’ The $100 figure is the full outbound fee on its own, not a partial one.
That is the entity-law filing fee only. It is not the cost of leaving, and anyone who tells you the cost of leaving Connecticut 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 Connecticut’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 Connecticut 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.
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.
- Connecticut: https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_616.htm. Statutory text, independently re-verified 2026-09-03 against cga.ct.gov, the Connecticut General Assembly’s own site.