How much does an LLC cost in NJ?

Forming a New Jersey LLC costs $100, the Certificate of Formation fee set by N.J.S.A. 42:2C-93(a)(4), whether you file online or on paper. The fee was $125 until P.L.2026, c.24 lowered it effective July 1, 2026. After that the recurring cost is a $75 Annual Report each year, due on the last day of your formation anniversary month. Optional add-ons include $25 for expedited 8.5-business-hour handling, $50 for same-day service, $50 to reserve a name, and $25 for a certified copy.

Does a New Jersey LLC have to file an annual report?

Yes. Every New Jersey LLC must file an Annual Report and pay a $75 filing fee. It is due each year on the last day of the month in which you completed your business formation, so the deadline is tied to your own anniversary month rather than a fixed statewide date. New Jersey does not publish a flat dollar late penalty, but failure to file can result in revocation of the business.

What is the New Jersey $150 per member LLC fee?

It is the Partnership Filing Fee. Under N.J.S.A. 54A:8-6(b)(2)(A), an entity with more than two owners and New Jersey source income or loss pays $150 for each individual, trust, estate or entity owning an interest, up to a maximum of $250,000. It is computed on Form NJ-1065 and you must also prepay one-half of the current year's fee toward the next year. Single-member and two-member LLCs do not owe it, and investment clubs are exempt.

How much does it cost to register a foreign LLC in New Jersey?

$100, the fee for an application for a certificate of authority as a foreign LLC under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-93(a)(10), as amended by P.L.2026, c.24 effective July 1, 2026 (it was $125 before). A registered foreign LLC then files the same $75 Annual Report each year on the last day of its registration anniversary month. Expedited handling for an LLC filing costs an extra $25 for 8.5-business-hour service or $50 for same-day service.

LLC Costs · NJ

How Much Does an LLC Cost in New Jersey?

Fees verified July 29, 2026 against the New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services fee schedule

Forming an LLC in New Jersey costs $100 to file the Public Records Filing for New Business Entity (Certificate of Formation) with the state, the Annual Report costs $75 every year. That puts the first-year state cost at $175, before any registered-agent service.

Bar chart of LLC costs in New Jersey: $175 in unavoidable state charges in the first year and $75 a year after that. New Jersey charges $75 for its annual report. — The recurring figure covers the annual report plus any flat state entity tax. Source: New Jersey's published filing fee schedule, verified July 2026.

Public Records Filing for New Business Entity (Certificate of Formation)$100

Annual Report$75

First-year state cost$175

Five-year state cost$475

What you actually pay in New Jersey

New Jersey charges a flat $100 to file a domestic LLC's Certificate of Formation, the same amount online or on paper, and $100 for a foreign LLC's application for a certificate of authority, under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-93(a)(4) and (a)(10) as amended by P.L.2026, c.24, effective July 1, 2026 (both fees were $125 before that date). Every LLC then files an Annual Report for $75, due on the last day of its formation anniversary month. Certified copies are $25 each and a standing certificate is $50 ($100 for a certificate reciting all of the LLC's filings). An LLC with more than two owners and New Jersey source income additionally owes the $150-per-owner Partnership Filing Fee, capped at $250,000, plus a prepayment of half that amount toward the next year.

New Jersey LLC fee breakdown

Cost	Amount	How often	Charged by
Public Records Filing for New Business Entity (Certificate of Formation)	$100	One time	New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services
Annual Report	$75	Every year	New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services
Required state cost, first year	$175	N/A	N/A
Partnership Filing Fee, does not apply to a standard New Jersey LLC	$150	Only if it applies	Division of Taxation
Registered agent service (optional)	$50, $300	Every year	Commercial provider
Expedited processing (optional), Expedited (8.5 business hours, LLC/LLP) $25, Same day $50, 2-hour $500, 1-hour $1,000	$25+	One time	New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services
Name reservation (optional)	$50	One time	New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services
Certificate of good standing (optional)	$50	Per copy	New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services

New Jersey charges $100 to file a Certificate of Formation, online or on paper, under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-93(a)(4) as amended by P.L.2026, c.24, effective July 1, 2026 (the fee was $125 before that date). Amendments stay at $100.

Partnership Filing Fee: $150 for each individual, trust, estate or entity (including any pass-through entity) that owns a partnership interest, up to a maximum of $250,000. Owed only by an entity that has MORE THAN TWO owners and New Jersey source income or loss. The entity must also prepay one-half of the current year's fee toward the following year. Investment clubs are exempt; nonprofit owners are not exempt. Single-member LLCs and two-owner LLCs do not owe it.

Why the Partnership Filing Fee is not in the total: Owed only by an entity with more than two owners and New Jersey source income or loss, at $150 per owner, so a single-member or two-member LLC owes nothing.

The New Jersey Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act contains no newspaper publication requirement for LLC formation.

Registered agent is listed separately because it is a commercial service, not a state charge. Commercial registered-agent services, not a state charge. Range and $125 midpoint match the assumption used by /tools/llc-true-cost. Most states let you serve as your own registered agent at no cost if you have a physical in-state address. Run your own numbers in the true-cost calculator. For what formation services charge on top of these state fees, see the best LLC services in New Jersey.

New Jersey LLC cost over five years

State charges only in the first column; the second adds a registered-agent service at the $125/yr market midpoint.

Period	State cost only	With registered agent
Year 1 (formation + first filing)	$175	$300
Each year after	$75/yr	$200/yr
Five-year total	$475	$1,100

Is New Jersey expensive compared with other states?

New Jersey ranks 26th cheapest of 50 states on first-year cost , $56.53 below the $231.53 national average. On ongoing annual cost it ranks 35th.

Cheaper state	First-year cost	You would save
Montana	$35	$140
Arizona	$50	$125
Missouri	$50	$125

A cheaper filing fee elsewhere rarely saves money if you live and operate in New Jersey. Doing business here with an out-of-state LLC generally means registering it as a foreign LLC in New Jersey anyway. Paying both states. See foreign qualification in New Jersey before forming elsewhere to save on fees.

New Jersey filing deadline and late penalties

Annual Report

Frequency	every year
Due	Due every year on the last day of the month in which the business formation was completed
Fee	$75

No separate dollar late-filing penalty is published; the consequence is administrative. N.J.S.A. 42:2C-26 sets the trigger at two consecutive missed years.

N.J.S.A. 42:2C-26: if no annual report is filed for TWO CONSECUTIVE YEARS, a DOMESTIC LLC's certificate is transferred to an inactive list (revocation is the FOREIGN-LLC consequence). The statute states that an LLC on the inactive list "shall remain a limited liability company and the limited liability of its members and managers shall not be affected". Its name becomes available to any other LLC. Reinstatement is by proclamation on payment of a reinstatement filing fee, the current and all delinquent annual report fees, and a late filing fee; the DORES registry lists Reinstatement of Charter at $75.

Full New Jersey annual report filing guide · Deadline calculator

Cost traps specific to New Jersey

Older guides still quote $125

P.L.2026, c.24 cut the Certificate of Formation fee and the foreign LLC registration fee from $125 to $100 for filings on or after July 1, 2026. DORES's older Public Records Filing instructions (revised 2011) still print $125, and so do many third-party guides; the Division's current fee schedule shows $100.

The $150-per-owner fee surprises multi-member LLCs

An LLC with three or more owners and New Jersey source income owes $150 per owner (max $250,000) on Form NJ-1065, and must also prepay one-half of that fee toward next year, so a five-member LLC's first bill is $750 plus a $375 prepayment, not $750.

Anniversary-month annual report, not a calendar deadline

The $75 Annual Report is due on the last day of the month in which the LLC was formed, so the deadline differs for every entity and failure to file can lead to revocation.

Frequently Asked Questions

: Forming a New Jersey LLC costs $100, the Certificate of Formation fee set by N.J.S.A. 42:2C-93(a)(4), whether you file online or on paper. The fee was $125 until P.L.2026, c.24 lowered it effective July 1, 2026. After that the recurring cost is a $75 Annual Report each year, due on the last day of your formation anniversary month. Optional add-ons include $25 for expedited 8.5-business-hour handling, $50 for same-day service, $50 to reserve a name, and $25 for a certified copy.
: Yes. Every New Jersey LLC must file an Annual Report and pay a $75 filing fee. It is due each year on the last day of the month in which you completed your business formation, so the deadline is tied to your own anniversary month rather than a fixed statewide date. New Jersey does not publish a flat dollar late penalty, but failure to file can result in revocation of the business.
: It is the Partnership Filing Fee. Under N.J.S.A. 54A:8-6(b)(2)(A), an entity with more than two owners and New Jersey source income or loss pays $150 for each individual, trust, estate or entity owning an interest, up to a maximum of $250,000. It is computed on Form NJ-1065 and you must also prepay one-half of the current year's fee toward the next year. Single-member and two-member LLCs do not owe it, and investment clubs are exempt.
: $100, the fee for an application for a certificate of authority as a foreign LLC under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-93(a)(10), as amended by P.L.2026, c.24 effective July 1, 2026 (it was $125 before). A registered foreign LLC then files the same $75 Annual Report each year on the last day of its registration anniversary month. Expedited handling for an LLC filing costs an extra $25 for 8.5-business-hour service or $50 for same-day service.

Where these numbers come from

Every fee above was checked against New Jersey's own published sources on July 29, 2026 , the New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services fee schedule, the governing statute, and where a state-level tax applies, the state tax authority. Commercial formation-service pages were not used.

The first-year total is the Public Records Filing for New Business Entity (Certificate of Formation) fee plus the first year of any recurring state charge. Where a state's first report is not due until the following year, that is noted above. The five-year total is the filing fee plus five years of recurring charges, which avoids the timing question entirely. Registered-agent service is excluded from all state figures.

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