Your Oregon LLC Is Doing Business in Another State
The short answer. You keep one LLC. It stays registered in Oregon, which charges $100 a year to keep it in good standing, and a state that finds you are doing business there adds its own registration and its own filings on top. Whether your activity counts is decided by that state's own rule, not by this page. Of the 47 other states that have one figure to compare, 13 cost more in year-one registration than Oregon's own first-year total of $200, 33 cost less, and 1 costs the same. Tennessee and Washington are outside those figures: Tennessee's fee scales with member count from $300, and Washington's $180 is before back fees, so neither has one figure to compare.
What you keep paying in Oregon
When the Annual Report is due. By the limited liability company's anniversary, the day each year exactly one or more years after the date the Secretary of State filed the articles of organization (ORS 63.001(1)(a), ORS 63.787(1))
Every Oregon fee behind these figures is broken out on what an LLC costs in Oregon.
What a second state adds
These are the states closest to Oregon’s own cost line, plus the three dearest to enter. Each figure is that state’s first-year registration cost for an out-of-state LLC, beside what it charges every year after. Whether your activity counts as doing business there depends on the facts, and each state defines it differently.
| State | Year one to register | State charges, each year after | Against your year one ($200) |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | $750 | $55/yr | $550 more |
| Texas | $750 | None | $550 more |
| Massachusetts | $500 | $520/yr | $300 more |
| Georgia | $235 | $60/yr | $35 more |
| Delaware | $200 | $400/yr | the same |
| Minnesota | $185 | None | $15 less |
| Washington | at least $180 | $70/yr | not comparable, this is a floor |
| Vermont | $155 | $45/yr | $45 less |
| Alabama | $150 | None | $50 less |
| Arizona | $150 | None | $50 less |
| Illinois | $150 | $75/yr | $50 less |
A state charge of None is not a tax of none. The column is the recurring charge our fee dataset records, and a state that asks for no recurring filing may still levy an entity-level tax that sits outside it.
What we verified about Oregon's own costs
Our notes, from Oregon's published fee schedules and statutes.
Oregon charges $100 for LLC Articles of Organization and $100 again every year for the annual report (renewal), so the recurring Secretary of State cost is one of the highest flat annual fees in the country. The annual report is keyed to the LLC's own anniversary date, not a fixed calendar deadline, and there is no late fee. Oregon's enforcement is administrative dissolution instead. A name reservation costs $100, the same as forming the LLC, and an amendment to a filed annual report is free ($0.00). A foreign LLC pays $275 to apply for authority and $275 for each annual renewal.
$100 every single year, on your anniversary. Oregon's annual report fee equals its entire formation fee, and the deadline is the LLC's own filing anniversary rather than a common calendar date, so a five-year-old Oregon LLC has paid $500 in renewals on a date most owners no longer remember.
Reserving a name costs as much as forming. The Business Registry Fee Schedule prices an Application for Name Reservation at $100 (identical to Articles of Organization) so reserving first and filing later turns a $100 formation into $200.
Corporate Activity Tax hits LLCs on gross receipts. Oregon's CAT applies to LLCs, requires registration once Oregon commercial activity reaches $750,000, and imposes $250 plus 0.57% of activity over $1 million. A cost driven by revenue, not profit, so a low-margin LLC can owe CAT while losing money.
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Edmond Hui · Founder, MyStateLLC
Edmond Hui is a software engineer and serial entrepreneur based in New York who has founded multiple online businesses across e-commerce, media, and information publishing. Before transitioning into tech, he spent years as a commercial real estate professional closing deals totaling over 100,000 square feet, giving him firsthand experience with business formation and entity structuring. He built MyStateLLC to provide the free, state-specific LLC guidance he wished existed when forming his own companies.