Register Your Maryland LLC in West Virginia

How to register your Maryland LLC in West Virginia

Activities that do NOT require registration in West Virginia

• Maintaining, defending, or settling an action or proceeding
• Holding meetings of members or managers, or carrying on internal company affairs
• Maintaining bank accounts
• Maintaining offices or agencies for transfer, exchange, and registration of the company's own securities
• Selling through independent contractors
• Soliciting or obtaining orders, if the orders require acceptance outside West Virginia
• Creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, or security interests in property
• Securing or collecting debts, enforcing security interests, and holding property so acquired
• Conducting an isolated transaction completed within 30 days that is not one of similar transactions
• Transacting business in interstate commerce
• Applying for withholding tax on a West Virginia resident employee who works for the company in another state
• Holding stock of another corporation authorized to transact business in West Virginia, so long as the company itself does no business here

Transcribed 2026-08-05 from W. Va. Code Section 31B-10-1003 (code.wvlegislature.gov). NOTABLE FOR REMOTE EMPLOYERS: item (11) expressly excludes "Applying for withholding tax on an employee residing in the State of West Virginia who works for the foreign limited liability company in another state." West Virginia has NO property-ownership safe harbor; subsection (b) reverses it, so owning income-producing property in West Virginia DOES constitute transacting business.