Register Your Oregon LLC in Washington

How to register your Oregon LLC in Washington

Activities that do NOT require registration in Washington

• Bringing, defending, mediating, arbitrating, or settling a lawsuit, proceeding, or claim
• Carrying on internal company affairs, including holding meetings of owners or managers
• Maintaining bank accounts
• Maintaining an office or agent to transfer, exchange, or register the company's own securities, or a trustee or depository for them
• Selling through independent contractors
• Taking orders that must be accepted out of state to become binding, where the only local work is delivery and installation
• Creating or acquiring debts, mortgages, or security interests in property
• Securing or collecting debts, or enforcing mortgages or security interests that secure them
• Doing a one-off transaction finished within 30 days that is not part of repeated similar transactions
• Owning property, and nothing more
• Doing business in interstate commerce
• Running an approved branch campus of an out-of-state degree-granting school under chapter 28B.90 RCW
• Employing a remote worker who lives in Washington

Under RCW 23.95.520, all 13 items. MOST IMPORTANT: item (1)(m), "Employing a remote worker who resides in Washington state," was added by 2026 c 80 s 7 and is an express statutory safe harbor for remote employment. It is unqualified on its face, with no headcount cap and no role exclusion. Washington appears to be the first state to enact one. The amendment is current on the legislature's site but has not propagated to most secondary publishers, so many other sources still show the pre-2026 12-item list. Subsection (4) confirms the carve-out is registration-only and does not shelter the company from B&O tax, payroll tax, or service of process.