Best LLC Formation Services in Oregon

Oregon does not run an anonymous LLC. The reason is one line on the form. Field 13 of the Articles of Organization wants the name and address of at least one member, manager, or authorised person with direct knowledge of the business. Members and managers are optional fields. That one is not. The form says the record is public under ORS 192.410 to 192.490.

Your registered agent needs a physical street address in Oregon. P.O. boxes are out. So are mail drops. The principal office asks for a street address too, so a founder working from a spare room puts that address on the public record. A paid agent is what keeps it off.

Oregon costs $100 to start and $100 every anniversary. There is no franchise tax. Washington asks $180 to file and $70 a year after that. California opens cheaper at $70, then bills $800 in franchise tax every year the company exists. Oregon sits in the middle.

A name reservation costs $100. That is what the Articles cost. Filing takes the name anyway. Reserve one only if you are not ready to file.

1. Get your EIN from the IRS. It is free. It takes about ten minutes online. You need it before a bank will open an account. Apply at IRS.gov and pay nothing.
2. Keep a registered agent with a physical Oregon address. The agent has to be reachable at a street address during business hours. Nothing else counts. If yours resigns or moves, update the state.
3. File the annual report by your anniversary date. It costs $100. Oregon administratively dissolves companies that stop filing. This is the bill founders forget.
4. Reinstate fast if you ever lapse. You can reinstate online for up to five years. You pay the reinstatement fee plus every missed annual fee. The trap is your name. The Secretary of State reinstates you only if the name is still free, so you have to rename the company if somebody took it.
5. Open a business bank account. Bring the approved Articles of Organization and your EIN.
6. Check your city, not the state. Oregon has no general state business license. Portland, Eugene, and Salem each run their own registration. Portland's covers anyone doing business inside city limits.
7. Skip the BOI report. FinCEN exempted every company formed in the United States in March 2025, so a domestic Oregon LLC files nothing. A final rule made that permanent on 14 August 2026. Only companies formed abroad still report. A letter asking for a fee to file one is a scam, and FinCEN says so.

Oregon has no sales tax. That is real money if you ship product. The trade is the Corporate Activity Tax, and it starts earlier than most guides admit.

Registration is the part that catches people. You must register within 30 days of passing $750,000 in Oregon commercial activity, even though you owe nothing yet. Skip it and the Department of Revenue charges $100 a month, up to $1,000 a year.

Tax itself begins above $1 million. It is $250 plus 0.57 percent of taxable commercial activity over that line. Taxable is doing the work there. You subtract 35 percent of the greater of your cost inputs or labour costs first. The bill lands smaller than the rate suggests.

• The annual report costs $100, the same as filing - Most states charge less to stay registered than to start. Oregon does not. It bills the same amount every anniversary.
• A name reservation costs $100 - That is the price of the Articles themselves. Filing takes the name anyway. Reserve one only if you are not ready.
• Foreign registration costs $275 - That is nearly three times the domestic fee. Check it early. It matters if you form elsewhere and expand into Oregon later.
• Corporate Activity Tax registration starts at $750,000 - The tax itself starts at $1 million. Registration comes first. You register 30 days after crossing $750,000 in Oregon commercial activity, and missing it costs $100 a month.
• Paper filings sit behind the online queue - On 15 August the mail room was still on filings received 4 August. Online ran 1 to 3 business days. Every service here files online.