Every official charge for forming an LLC in New York 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 — Articles of Organization | $200 |
| LLC publication requirement — newspaper publication costs | No fixed fee |
| Certificate of Publication filing fee | $50 |
| First-year minimum total | $250 |
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.
File through the official portal above — third-party filing services charge extra for the same filing.
Articles of Organization: Filed pursuant to Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Law with the Department of State, Division of Corporations.
| Standard filing | $200 |
Department of State: 'The fee for filing the Articles of Organization is $200.' Single fee stated for mail, in-person, fax and online filing; no separate online/paper amounts are published.
New York requires a biennial report — fee $9.
New York LLCs do not file an annual report; they file a Biennial Statement every two years during the calendar month in which the original Articles of Organization were filed with the Department of State. A statement should not be filed before the calendar month in which it is due; failure to file is shown as 'past due' in Department of State records.
New York's periodic filing is the Biennial Statement (Limited Liability Company Law § 301(e)), not an annual report. $9 fee confirmed on the Department of State Biennial Statements page.
| Annual LLC filing fee — Form IT-204-LL (NY Department of Taxation and Finance) | Varies |
LLCs with income, gain, loss or deduction from New York sources must file Form IT-204-LL and pay an annual filing fee based on New York source gross income for the preceding tax year: $25 (gross income $0–$100,000, and $25 if no NY source gross income or if the LLC is a disregarded entity), $50 (over $100,000–$250,000), $175 (over $250,000–$500,000), $500 (over $500,000–$1,000,000), $1,500 (over $1,000,000–$5,000,000), $3,000 (over $5,000,000–$25,000,000), $4,500 (over $25,000,000). Due on or before the 15th day of the third month following the close of the tax year; no extension is available. Because the amount is graduated by income, there is no single fee.
Once the LLC is formed, these pages work out what it keeps: New York Tax Brackets · New York Income Tax Calculator · New York Paycheck Calculator.
New York's first-year minimum of $250 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:
http://dos.ny.gov/forming-limited-liability-company-new-york
https://dos.ny.gov/biennial-statements-business-corporations-and-limited-liability-companies
https://dos.ny.gov/certificate-publication-domestic-limited-liability-company-0/
https://www.tax.ny.gov/forms/current-forms/it/it204lli.htm
Forming an LLC in New York? 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 New York in 2026: a $200 filing fee for the Articles of Organization, a first-year minimum of $250, 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 New York: you pay $200 to file the Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State. With the mandatory year-one charges counted, your first-year minimum is $250; after that the recurring state cost is $9 biennial 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 Articles of Organization costs $200 at the cheapest channel. Counting the mandatory state charges that fall due in year one, the first-year minimum is $250. Registered-agent services and local licences are extra and are not state charges.
New York requires a biennial report costing $9. New York LLCs do not file an annual report; they file a Biennial Statement every two years during the calendar month in which the original Articles of Organization were filed with the Department of State. A statement should not be filed before the calendar month in which it is due; failure to file is shown as 'past due' in Department of State records.
Articles of Organization; Designation of the Secretary of State as agent for service of process; Operating Agreement (mandatory, not filed); Certificate of Publication with affidavits of publication. You will also need a free EIN from the IRS — a federal step that is the same in every state.
You file with the New York Department of State, Division of Corporations, State Records and Uniform Commercial Code. Phone: (518) 473-2492. No email address is published — the office takes enquiries through the contact form on its website. File online at https://dos.ny.gov/e-corp-online-filing-system.
Beyond the filing fee, New York charges: LLC publication requirement — newspaper publication costs (no fixed fee); Certificate of Publication filing fee ($50); Annual LLC filing fee — Form IT-204-LL (NY Department of Taxation and Finance) (no fixed fee). Each is itemised on this page with its rule.
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