Best LLC Formation Services in Minnesota

Minnesota does not require a registered agent. Minn. Stat. 322C.0113 says an LLC shall have a registered office and may have an agent. The office is the required half. Section 5.36 says it has to be a real office, not just a post office box. That address goes on the public record. So the thing a service sells you here is an address.

The Annual Renewal costs $0. Every route is free. The state fee schedule prices it at zero by mail, online and in person. It is due December 31, starting the year after you form. Miss it and the state dissolves your LLC. That is the only reason a compliance reminder earns its price here.

Filing by mail costs $135, not $155. The $20 buys the fast queue. Mail is handled first come, first served, and the state publishes no turnaround time for it. Services all file online, so the $155 is the number you see quoted everywhere.

Minnesota does not ask who owns the LLC. Article IV asks for organizers instead. It wants each organizer's name and street address, and the state prints on the form that everything filed there is public. Use a service as organizer and its details go in that field. Want to price the address on its own? Our Minnesota registered agent comparison does that, and the step by step LLC guide covers filing it yourself.

Get your EIN from the IRS. It is free. It takes minutes at irs.gov, and every bank will ask for it.

File the Annual Renewal by December 31 of the following year. The filing is free. Missing it dissolves the LLC. Putting it back costs $85 online or $65 by mail, on top of the renewal, per the state fee schedule.

Sign up with the Minnesota Department of Revenue if you sell taxable goods. The state sales tax rate is 6.875%. Local taxes stack on top of it. The Department runs a rate lookup by address, which is the only way to get your own number right.

Check your city. Minnesota has no general state business license. Minneapolis and Saint Paul run their own. So the rules that reach you are local ones.

Skip the BOI report. FinCEN ended it permanently for companies formed in the United States, in a final rule issued 11 August 2026 and effective on the 14th. It replaces the interim rule of March 2025, so the answer is settled rather than provisional. Only foreign companies registered here still report. Minnesota's own Articles of Organization form, revised 1 July 2025, still tells you to report your beneficial owners. The form is out of date. The rule is not.

Write an operating agreement anyway. Minnesota does not ask for one. Without it, Chapter 322C decides how your LLC splits money and votes. Those defaults rarely match what the founders agreed out loud.

A Minnesota LLC pays no entity level income tax. Profit lands on the members' own returns. Minnesota taxes it there.

The one state charge worth learning is the minimum fee. It applies to LLCs that file a partnership return. The number moves each year. The 2026 table sets it at $0 until Minnesota property, payroll and sales together pass $1,280,000, then $260 for the next band. A single member LLC files no partnership return, so it never owes the fee.

Sales tax catches people earlier. The state rate is 6.875%, and local taxes add to it. What you charge depends on your address, not on your entity.

• Reinstatement costs $85 online - Miss the free renewal and the state dissolves your LLC. Bringing it back is an Annual Reinstatement. It runs $85 online or in person, $65 by mail, plus the renewal you skipped. That is the price of a missed December 31.
• Name reservation is $35 or $55 - Holding a name for 12 months costs $35 by mail. Online or in person it is $55. That is the same $20 gap the state charges on almost every filing.
• Changing your office or agent costs $55 online - Switching provider later means a filing. It runs $35 by mail or $55 online. One exception is worth knowing. Under section 5.36 the state cannot charge you when the change only swaps a post office box for a real address.
• The minimum fee starts at $1,280,000 - Multi member LLCs that file a partnership return owe Minnesota a minimum fee. Every guide lists it as a cost of doing business here. The 2026 table puts it at $0 below $1,280,000 of Minnesota property, payroll and sales. A new LLC is nowhere near that.