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Mississippi Foreign LLC Registration

The fee, the form, what triggers registration in Mississippi, and how to file.

State filing fee $250 one-time
Registered agent $125/year based on Northwest RA
Total, all in $1,375
Mississippi data last reviewed Sep 11, 2026 · sos.ms.gov Totals include the $250 filing fee once, Northwest RA at $125/year, and Mississippi recurring state costs over the selected period.

Foreign Qualification

Filing fee
$250
Form
Application for Registration of Foreign LLC
Annual obligation
$250/year
Processing time
Mississippi publishes 24 hours for an online filing: the Secretary of State says a submitted document "will be returned filed, or with an explanation of issues preventing filing" and that "this should occur within 24 hours of submission".
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Most business filings and all annual reports are online only. Mississippi sells no expedited service and has set no expedite fee.

Estimated year 1 cost
$500
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Need to register your LLC in Mississippi?

Northwest files the foreign registration and serves as your registered agent in Mississippi, which the filing requires. Only need an agent? Northwest's registered agent service alone is $125/year.

Have Northwest register your LLC in Mississippi ↗
$225 + the state fee · One year of registered agent included
Other registered agent options 2 alternatives
Registered Agents Inc
$200/year · Report filing included, state fees extra
Visit site ↗
Harbor Compliance
$99 first year, then $149/year · Full-service compliance option
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What triggers foreign qualification in Mississippi?

  • Physical office or place of business
  • Employees working in the state

Important to know

  • Foreign LLCs pay $250 for the annual report while domestic Mississippi LLCs pay nothing.
What does NOT require registration in Mississippi 14 activities

Mississippi carves 14 activities out by statute. On their own, none of them requires a foreign LLC to register.

  • Maintaining, defending, or settling any proceeding
  • Holding meetings of members or managers, or carrying on other activities concerning internal affairs
  • Maintaining bank accounts
  • Maintaining offices or agencies for transfer, exchange, and registration of its own securities or interests, or trustees or depositories for them
  • Selling through independent contractors
  • Soliciting or obtaining orders, if the orders require acceptance outside Mississippi to become contracts
  • Creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, and security interests in real or personal property
  • Securing or collecting debts, enforcing mortgages and security interests securing them, and holding, protecting, and maintaining property so acquired
  • Owning real or personal property, and nothing more
  • Conducting an isolated transaction completed within 30 days that is not one of repeated transactions of a like nature
  • Transacting business in interstate commerce
  • Being a shareholder in a corporation or foreign corporation that transacts business in Mississippi
  • Being a limited partner of a limited partnership or foreign limited partnership that transacts business in Mississippi
  • Being a member or manager of an LLC or foreign LLC that transacts business in Mississippi

Under Miss. Code Ann. Section 79-29-1015, fourteen items across two subsections. Note subsection (4): a foreign LLC that is a general partner of a partnership transacting business in Mississippi IS declared to be transacting business.

Forming a new LLC in Mississippi instead? $50 to form
Formation fee
$50
Annual cost
$0/year (report required, no fee)
State income tax
Flat 4% income tax on taxable income above $10,000 (2026 tax year)
Privacy
Moderate
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This page provides general information based on publicly available state requirements. It is not legal advice. Verify with the Mississippi SOS before filing.