Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: Kansas permits it, in both directions, under K.S.A. 17-78-501(a): the statute’s own section heading is ‘Domestication authorized,’ so there’s no keyword-search trap. The exact dollar fee for the domestication half of the filing could not be confirmed with confidence this session, because the state’s own current fee notice contains what look like two conflicting figures; the bundled LLC-formation-plus-domestication total on the official form is $165. This page covers the entity-law half only.
What Kansas’s statute actually says
Section 17-78-501(a) reads: ‘Except as otherwise provided in this section, by complying with K.S.A. 17-78-501 through 17-78-506, and amendments thereto, a domestic entity may become a domestic entity of the same type in a foreign jurisdiction if the domestication is authorized by the law of the foreign jurisdiction’: the standard reciprocity condition running against the destination state’s law, confirmed verbatim on re-fetch. Kansas’s Business Entity Transactions Act keeps conversion (§§ 401-406, entity-type change) and domestication (§§ 501-506, jurisdiction change) as two separately defined, separately numbered transactions, which is why the statute itself is unambiguous even though the SOS’s own filing form (Form CDD) merges both under one paperwork label.
What the filing costs
Outbound, a Kansas LLC files a Certificate of Conversion/Domestication (Form CDD, citing K.S.A. 17-78-405/17-78-505) with the Kansas Secretary of State, together with the new-jurisdiction’s own formation document. The form’s own instructions (Rev. 2/27/26) state a combined $165 for ‘LLC: Articles of Organization + CDD,’ but the specific dollar amount attributable to the domestication filing alone could not be pinned down this session: the Kansas Register’s 2026 fee-schedule notice contains two different figures in the same document (‘Domestication certificate or agreement: $50.00’ in one section, ‘$5.00’ for a differently-labeled schedule elsewhere) without table structure that survives text extraction to say which applies, and a May 2026 Kansas SOS press release announcing further fee reductions does not itemize this filing. Rather than guess between $50, $5, or a share of the $165 bundle, no filing fee is stated here; the $75 new-formation-document fee is the one figure in this filing that is reliably sourced.
That is the entity-law filing fee only. It is not the cost of leaving, and anyone who tells you the cost of leaving Kansas 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 Kansas’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 Kansas 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.
- Kansas: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch17/017_078_0501.html. Statutory text, independently re-verified 2026-09-03, matches dataset; fee amount remains unresolved on re-check, consistent with the dataset’s own VERIFIED_CURRENCY_RISK flag.