Form an LLC · AR

How to form an LLC in Arkansas

Arkansas LLCs are formed by filing a Certificate of Organization for a Domestic Limited Liability Company with the Arkansas Secretary of State, Business and Commercial Services Division — the official filing fee is $45 (see the fee notes below). Corpus prepares and files it for $250 all-in, including your first year of registered-agent service.

Form your Arkansas LLC

What Arkansas requires

Formation document
Certificate of Organization for a Domestic Limited Liability Company verified 2026-09-24
Filing office
Arkansas Secretary of State, Business and Commercial Services Division verified 2026-09-24
Arkansas filing fee for the Certificate of Organization for a Domestic Limited Liability Company
$45 Certificate of Organization filing fee: $45 online or $50 paper. verified 2026-09-30
  • Optional: Name reservation — $22.50 online or $25 paper (optional; not required before filing). source
  • Online and paper certificate fees are alternatives; a name reservation is optional. source
Online filing
Yes — You can file the domestic LLC formation document through the state’s online service. verified 2026-09-24
Standard processing time
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with Arkansas Secretary of State, Business and Commercial Services Division
Expedited options
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with Arkansas Secretary of State, Business and Commercial Services Division
Name requirement
The name must contain “limited liability company,” “limited company,” or an allowed abbreviation such as LLC, L.L.C., LC, or L.C. verified 2026-09-24
Registered agent
Required — An Arkansas LLC must maintain a registered agent in the state. verified 2026-09-24
LLC statute
Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, Ark. Code Ann. § 4-38-101 et seq. verified 2026-09-24

What you’ll need

The Corpus intake collects this information to prepare the filing. Some questions are asked only when they apply — for example, the management question is asked only when the company has more than one owner.

  • What do you want to name the company?
  • In a sentence, what will the business actually do?
  • Where should official mail go — street, city, state, ZIP?
  • What email should we use for this order?
  • Which industry code fits this business?
  • Besides you, will anyone else have authority to make decisions for the business?
  • Who owns this company?

Arkansas asks nothing beyond the standard questions.

What it costs with Corpus

State fees (filing fee + the state's processing charges)
$45
Registered agent, year one
$100
Corpus service
$105
Total at checkout
$250

Registered agent renews at $99/yr after the included first year — cancel anytime. Itemized pricing for every state is on the price grid; how Corpus compares to other formation services is on the comparison page.

After you form: staying in good standing

Annual report
Annual report — on or before May 1. verified 2026-09-30
  • The $150 is the annual franchise-tax payment filed with the report, also recorded under franchise tax. source · source 2
Report fee
$150 (Same $150 payment as the franchise tax; not a second charge) verified 2026-09-30
  • Conditional: $25 late filing penalty (if the report is late). source
  • Conditional: $5 online credit-card processing fee (only if the franchise-tax report is filed online by credit card). source
Franchise or privilege tax
$150 annual LLC franchise tax, owed by every LLC. verified 2026-09-30
  • Rates, caps, thresholds, apportionment and exemptions: see Arkansas Secretary of State; all LLCs are liable for only the $150 annual payment under the report. source · source 2

Comparing what registered-agent service costs after year one across providers? The comparison page publishes renewal prices.

Form it with your AI agent

You don’t have to do the intake here. Any agent that can open a link can run the whole thing — Corpus’s formation tools give it Arkansas’s requirements and live price, it asks you the questions above, and it hands back a prefilled link you review and pay. Paste this into your assistant:

Form an LLC in Arkansas for me with Corpus (corpuslaw.us). Use its formation tools to get Arkansas's requirements and price, ask me what you need, and give me the prefilled link.

The guide is on /agents, the protocol reference is /docs/mcp, and the installable skill for this state is the Arkansas SKILL.md.

Sources

Every verified fact above names where Corpus read it and the date it was last verified. Sources marked secondary are third-party write-ups used only where an official page did not publish the answer.

Corpus is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Fees and rules change — each verified fact above shows the date Corpus last verified it; anything marked “not yet verified” should be confirmed with the filing office.