Best LLC Formation Services in Utah

Utah has allowed Series LLCs since 2013. So do about twenty other states now. This is not the rarity it gets sold as. What matters here is where the shield comes from. Utah Code 48-3a-1201 walls a series off from the rest of the company only if five things hold, and the last one is a filing, not a paper you keep in a drawer. Notice of the liability limit has to sit in the certificate of organization itself, right after the line naming the company. Section 48-3a-1202 is that exact about the spot. You can add it later by amendment for $17. Nothing backdates.

Utah does not offer anonymous LLCs. The field that gets you is not the one most guides point at. The certificate of organization asks for the company name, the office address and the registered agent. It never asks who owns the business. The annual report does. It wants the name of at least one governing person, meaning a member or a manager, and it wants that name every year. A commercial registered agent keeps your home address off the record. It does not keep your name off it. Founders who need the name off it too form a holding company in a state that allows it.

The renewal itself is $18, among the cheapest anywhere. Five dollars of that is the state's sign on portal fee, not the filing. It falls due in your anniversary month. Miss it and Utah adds $10. Run 60 days past due and the Division can start administrative dissolution. Once that lands, bringing the company back costs $54 on top of every renewal you skipped.

Utah asks for no general business license at the state level. Nearly every city and county does. Salt Lake City prices its license by business type. That is the bill founders forget. No formation service files it for you.

1. Get an EIN from the IRS. You need it before you open a business bank account or hire anyone. It is free and takes minutes on the IRS site.
2. Register with the Utah State Tax Commission. Selling goods or taxable services means you need a sales tax license. The state rate is 4.70%. Every Utah address stacks at least 1.25% of local tax on top, so the combined rate clears 6% everywhere and climbs from there.
3. Get a local business license. Most Utah cities and counties want one. Ask your city licensing office before you open.
4. File your annual renewal during your anniversary month. The fee is $18. Utah adds $10 if you are late. Run 60 days past due and the Division can start administrative dissolution.
5. Skip the BOI report. FinCEN exempted every company formed in the United States in March 2025. A final rule made that permanent on 14 August 2026. A domestic Utah LLC files nothing. Only companies formed abroad still report. A letter asking for a fee to file one is a scam, and FinCEN says so.

• Local business licenses - Most Utah cities want their own. Fees run from about $25 to $200 or more, depending on the city and the trade.
• Reinstatement after dissolution - Utah can dissolve your LLC for missed renewals. Getting it back costs $54 plus every renewal you owe.
• Name reservation - Holding your name before you file costs $22. It locks the name for 120 days.
• Certificate of existence - Utah issues no certificate of good standing. It issues a certificate of existence. The short form costs $12 and the long form $20. A bank asking for proof usually means the short one.