Everything you need to register a foreign LLC in Georgia.
State filing fee$235one-time
Registered agent$125/yearbased on Northwest RA
Total, all in$790
Georgia data last reviewed Aug 15, 2026 · ecorp.sos.ga.govTotals include the $235 filing fee once, Northwest RA at $125/year, and Georgia recurring state costs over the selected period.
Georgia data last reviewed Aug 15, 2026 · ecorp.sos.ga.gov
Formation in Georgia
Formation fee
$110
Annual cost
$60/year
State income tax
Flat 5.49% income tax
Privacy
Low
What triggers foreign qualification in Georgia?
Physical office or place of business
Employees working in the state
Important to know
The annual registration is $60, being a $50 filing fee plus a compulsory $10 service charge. Guides quoting $50 or $55 are using stale figures.
Operating unregistered triggers a single $500 penalty rather than an annually recurring one, plus the accumulated fees.
Activities that do NOT require registration in Georgia
The following activities are explicitly carved out by statute. On their own, they do not require a foreign LLC to register in Georgia.
Maintaining or defending a lawsuit, administrative proceeding, or arbitration, or settling claims or disputes
Holding meetings of managers, members, or other owners, or carrying on internal company affairs
Maintaining bank accounts, savings and loan share accounts, custodial or agency arrangements, or brokerage accounts
Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of membership interests, or appointing trustees or depositaries for them
Effecting sales through independent contractors
Soliciting or procuring orders, by mail or through employees or agents, where the orders require acceptance outside Georgia before becoming binding and the contracts involve no local performance other than delivery and installation
Making loans, or creating or acquiring evidences of debt, mortgages, or liens on property, or recording them
Securing or collecting debts, or enforcing rights in property securing them
Owning real or personal property, and nothing more
Conducting an isolated transaction not in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature
Effecting transactions in interstate or foreign commerce
Serving as trustee, executor, administrator, or guardian, or in a like fiduciary capacity where Georgia law permits
Owning or controlling, directly or indirectly, an interest in another person organized under Georgia law or transacting business in Georgia
Under O.C.G.A. Section 14-11-702(b), all 13 statutory items. Georgia's isolated-transaction carve-out has NO time limit. Subsection (d) states this Code section does not establish a standard for taxation or service of process.