Kansas LLC Cost

Documents you need

• Articles of Organization (Form DL) — Asks for four items: (1) the LLC name, which must contain a word of formation (L.L.C., L.C., LLC, LC, Limited Liability Company, or Limited Company, per K.S.A. 17-7920); (2) the name of the resident agent; (3) the registered office in Kansas for the resident agent; and (4) the signature of one or more authorized persons. Fee $85 online / $90 paper.
• Resident agent and registered office in Kansas — Kansas uses the term 'resident agent'. The resident agent must be an individual, a business registered in Kansas, or the business itself, and will receive legal documents for the business. The registered office must be an address in Kansas where the resident agent may be regularly present, including building number, street, city, state and ZIP; it cannot be a PO box (Form DL instructions).

How forming works in Kansas

1. Line up the agent: Resident agent and registered office in Kansas — Kansas uses the term 'resident agent'. The resident agent must be an individual, a business registered in Kansas, or the business itself, and will receive legal documents for the business. The registered office must be an address in Kansas where the resident agent may be regularly present, including building number, street, city, state and ZIP; it cannot be a PO box (Form DL instructions).
2. File the Articles of Organization with the Kansas Secretary of State — the filing fee is $85 at the cheapest channel (file online at the official portal linked below).

Annual report & ongoing costs

Kansas requires a biennial report — fee $90.

Information reports are filed biennially: businesses forming in even years file in each succeeding even year, and businesses forming in odd years file in each succeeding odd year; for-profit businesses are due by April 15 of their reporting year (Secretary of State Information Reports page). A three-month delinquency period follows the due date, after which the business forfeits.

The periodic filing is the Business Entity Information Report (Form ILC, K.S.A. 17-76,139), not an annual report. Form ILC (Rev. 1/23/26) lists: Online Information Report $90; Paper Information Report $110. fee_usd records the $90 online fee.

After you form

1. Get the free EIN from the IRS, then open a business bank account so company and personal money stay separate.
2. Stay compliant: the biennial report costs $90 — diary the due date before you form.

• Employer Identification Number (EIN) — free from the IRS; a federal step that is the same in every state.

Compare Kansas with the rest of the country

Kansas's first-year minimum of $85 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.