Form an LLC · LA

How to form an LLC in Louisiana

Louisiana LLCs are formed by filing Articles of Organization with the Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division — the official filing fee is $100 (see the fee notes below). Corpus prepares and files it for $250 all-in, including your first year of registered-agent service.

Form your Louisiana LLC

What Louisiana requires

Formation document
Articles of Organization verified 2026-09-24
Filing office
Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division verified 2026-09-24
Louisiana filing fee for the Articles of Organization
$100 Articles of Organization filing fee. verified 2026-09-30
  • Optional: $25 name reservation (separate optional filing; not stated as a prerequisite to articles). source
  • Conditional: $5 credit card convenience fee (charged on credit card payments). source
  • Name reservation is a separate optional filing, and credit-card payments add a $5 convenience fee. source
Online filing
Yes — You can form a Louisiana LLC through the state’s geauxBIZ portal. verified 2026-09-24
Standard processing time
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division
Expedited options
Priority expedite while you wait $50; 24-hour expedite $30 verified 2026-09-30
  • The fee schedule states expedite fees but does not state a standard processing time. source
Name requirement
The name must contain “limited liability company,” “L.L.C.,” “L.C.,” “LLC,” or “LC.” verified 2026-09-24
Registered agent
Required — A Louisiana LLC must maintain a registered agent in the state. verified 2026-09-24
LLC statute
Louisiana Limited Liability Company Law, La. R.S. 12:1301 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?

Louisiana asks nothing beyond the standard questions.

What it costs with Corpus

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

$105 = Louisiana’s $100 in formation fees for an online filing + $5 of other state processing charges for the way Corpus files (expedite, card or online-portal fees). Charges the state lists that may account for it: $5 credit card convenience fee.

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

Initial report
Required — filed with the articles of organization. verified 2026-09-30
  • The initial report is filed with the articles; the fee schedule lists a separate $25 fee only for a supplemental initial report. source · source 2
Annual report
Annual report — on or before the anniversary date of organization. verified 2026-09-30
  • The annual report is due on the organization anniversary, and credit-card payments add a $5 convenience fee. source · source 2
Report fee
$30 verified 2026-09-30
  • Conditional: $5 credit card convenience fee (charged on credit card payments). source
Franchise or privilege tax
Only if the LLC is taxed as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. verified 2026-09-30
  • Rates, caps, thresholds, apportionment and exemptions: see Louisiana Department of Revenue. The corporation franchise tax is repealed for periods beginning on or after January 1, 2026. source

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 Louisiana’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 Louisiana for me with Corpus (corpuslaw.us). Use its formation tools to get Louisiana'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 Louisiana 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.