Form an LLC · MD

How to form an LLC in Maryland

Maryland LLCs are formed by filing Articles of Organization with the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation, Charter Division — the official filing fee is $100 (see the fee notes below). Corpus prepares and files it for $275 all-in, including your first year of registered-agent service.

Form your Maryland LLC

What Maryland requires

Formation document
Articles of Organization verified 2026-09-24
Filing office
Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation, Charter Division verified 2026-09-24
Maryland filing fee for the Articles of Organization
$100 Articles of Organization filing fee. verified 2026-09-30
  • Optional: $25 name reservation (separate optional reservation; not stated as a prerequisite). source
  • Conditional: Maryland Business Express service fee — 3% (added to payments processed through the Maryland Business Express portal). source
  • The articles form states a $100 standard fee, and online portal payments add a 3% service fee. source · source 2 · source 3
Online filing
Yes — Maryland accepts online Articles of Organization filings through Maryland Business Express. verified 2026-09-24
Standard processing time
Standard filing: 6 to 8 weeks. verified 2026-09-30
Expedited options
Expedited filing total stated on the articles form $150 (articles form total; 7 to 14 business days); Same-day filing total stated on the articles form by method $425 online or $525 by paper (one of the listed methods); Expedite add-on on the fee schedule $50 (hand-delivered or dropbox; reviewed within 7 to 10 business days); Same-day expedite add-on by method $325 online or $425 by paper (one of the listed methods; online submission must be by 2:30 p.m.; not all documents are eligible) verified 2026-09-30
  • The articles form lists totals and times, and the fee schedule lists separate expedite and same-day add-ons. source · source 2
Name requirement
The name must contain “Limited Liability Company,” “L.L.C.,” “LLC,” “L.C.” or “LC.” verified 2026-09-24
Registered agent
Required — A Maryland LLC must name a Maryland resident agent, who must consent to serve. verified 2026-09-24
LLC statute
Maryland Limited Liability Company Act, Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass’ns § 4A-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?

Maryland asks nothing beyond the standard questions.

What it costs with Corpus

State fees (filing fee + the state's processing charges)
$155
Registered agent, year one
$100
Corpus service
$20
Total at checkout
$275

$155 = Maryland’s $100 in formation fees for an online filing + $55 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: 3% maryland Business Express service 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

Annual report
Annual report — april 15. verified 2026-09-30
  • Form 1 is the annual report and personal property return, due April 15; its filing fee is $300. source · source 2
Report fee
$300 verified 2026-09-30
  • Conditional: Maryland Business Express service fee — 3% (payments processed through the Maryland Business Express portal). source
Franchise or privilege tax
Only if the LLC is a Maryland public service company, such as a gas, electric, or telephone company. verified 2026-09-30
  • Rates, caps, thresholds, apportionment and exemptions: see Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation. The stated franchise tax applies to public service companies. 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 Maryland’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 Maryland for me with Corpus (corpuslaw.us). Use its formation tools to get Maryland'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 Maryland 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.