Every official charge for forming an LLC in Arkansas in 2026: the filing fee, the other mandatory state costs, the documents you need, and the filing office's own contact details — taken from the state's published sources, not from a filing service.
| Charge | Amount |
|---|---|
| Filing fee — Certificate of Organization | $45 |
| First-year minimum total | $45 |
The total is the cheapest filing channel plus the fixed mandatory charges that fall due in year one. Variable charges are listed at “No fixed fee” and are not folded into the total.
| Online filing | $45 |
| Paper / by mail filing | $50 |
The Secretary of State's official LLC forms/fees page lists Form LL-01 at Online Fee $45.00 / Paper Fee $50.00. The paper form itself (LL-01, Rev. 12/24) states 'Filing Fee $50.00.' The standard fee is the paper/base statutory fee of $50; online filers pay $45.
File through the official portal above — third-party filing services charge extra for the same filing.
Certificate of Organization: Form LL-01, 'Certificate of Organization for a Dom. Limited Liability Co.', filed with the Secretary of State, Business & Commercial Services.
Arkansas requires a annual report — fee $150.
Due May 1 each year. The LL-01 Certificate of Organization packet filed with the Secretary of State includes the affirmation: 'I affirm that franchise taxes are due by May 1st of the year following formation of this entity,' and franchise taxes are filed annually thereafter by May 1.
Arkansas has no separate annual report form for LLCs; the Annual LLC Franchise Tax Report is the yearly filing and carries the flat $150 franchise tax. The Secretary of State's official LLC forms/fees page lists the Franchise Tax Report at $150.00 (online and paper) and links online franchise tax filing from the same page.
Once the LLC is formed, these pages work out what it keeps: Arkansas Tax Brackets · Arkansas Income Tax Calculator · Arkansas Paycheck Calculator.
Arkansas's first-year minimum of $45 sits in the full ranking of all 51 jurisdictions — the cheapest first year is Montana at $35 and the most expensive is California at $870.
Official sources — fees verified 3 November 2026:
https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/business-commercial-services-bcs/forms-fees/llc
https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/uploads/bcs/LL-01.pdf
Forming an LLC in Arkansas? This page lists every official state charge for 2026 — filing fee, mandatory extras, the annual report and the documents — with the filing office's own phone, website and portal.
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Every official charge for forming and keeping an LLC in Arkansas in 2026: a $45 filing fee for the Certificate of Organization, a first-year minimum of $45, the documents the state asks for, and the filing office's own phone, website and portal — read from the state's published sources, not a filing service's price list.
Forming an LLC in Arkansas: you pay $45 to file the Certificate of Organization with the Arkansas Secretary of State. With the mandatory year-one charges counted, your first-year minimum is $45; after that the recurring state cost is $150 annual report.
Every figure comes from the state's own published fee schedule or statute (the page lists its official sources) and was checked on 3 November 2026. The first-year minimum is the cheapest filing channel plus the fixed mandatory charges that fall due in year one; annual report fees fall due after year one, and variable charges such as newspaper publication have no fixed amount, so both are shown separately rather than folded into the total.
Filing the Certificate of Organization costs $45 at the cheapest channel. Counting the mandatory state charges that fall due in year one, the first-year minimum is $45. Registered-agent services and local licences are extra and are not state charges.
Arkansas requires a annual report costing $150. Due May 1 each year. The LL-01 Certificate of Organization packet filed with the Secretary of State includes the affirmation: 'I affirm that franchise taxes are due by May 1st of the year following formation of this entity,' and franchise taxes are filed annually thereafter by May 1.
Certificate of Organization (Form LL-01); Franchise Tax Registration (filed with Form LL-01); Registered agent. You will also need a free EIN from the IRS — a federal step that is the same in every state.
You file with the Arkansas Secretary of State, Business & Commercial Services (BCS). Phone: 501-682-3409. No email address is published — the office takes enquiries through the contact form on its website. File online at https://sos-corpfilings.ark.org.
No — beyond the Certificate of Organization filing fee and the annual report, Arkansas records no other mandatory state charges for a standard LLC.
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