Form an LLC · MI

How to form an LLC in Michigan

Michigan LLCs are formed by filing Articles of Organization with the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), Corporations Division — the official filing fee is $50 (see the fee notes below). Corpus prepares and files it for $250 all-in, including your first year of registered-agent service.

Form your Michigan LLC

What Michigan requires

Formation document
Articles of Organization verified 2026-09-24
Filing office
Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), Corporations Division verified 2026-09-24
Michigan filing fee for the Articles of Organization
$50 Articles of Organization filing fee. verified 2026-09-30
  • Optional: $25 application for reservation of name (separate optional filing). source
  • Articles of organization are $50, and the fee schedule's expedite fees are in addition to the filing fee. source · source 2
Online filing
Yes — Michigan LLC Articles of Organization can be filed online through LARA’s filing system. verified 2026-09-24
Standard processing time
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), Corporations Division
Expedited options
1-hour same-day expedite $1,000 (in addition to the filing fee); 2-hour same-day expedite $500 (in addition to the filing fee); Same-day expedite for formation documents $100 (in addition to the filing fee); 24-hour expedite for formation documents $50 (in addition to the filing fee) verified 2026-09-30
  • The fee schedule states expedite fees in addition to the filing fee and does not state a standard processing time. source
Name requirement
Must contain “Limited Liability Company,” “L.L.C.,” or “L.C.”; periods and other punctuation are optional. verified 2026-09-24
Registered agent
Required — Michigan LLC Articles of Organization must identify the initial resident agent and registered office. verified 2026-09-24
LLC statute
Michigan Limited Liability Company Act, 1993 PA 23, MCL §450.4101 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?

Michigan asks nothing beyond the standard questions.

What it costs with Corpus

State fees (filing fee + the state's processing charges)
$50
Registered agent, year one
$100
Corpus service
$100
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 — february 15 each year after organization, except an LLC formed after September 30 skips the following February 15. verified 2026-09-30
  • The page states a $25 annual statement for limited liability companies and a $50 penalty in the professional LLC block, which is not applied here to a standard LLC. source
Report fee
$25 verified 2026-09-30
Franchise or privilege tax
Only if the LLC elects federal corporate tax treatment or elects Michigan’s flow-through entity tax. verified 2026-09-30
  • Rates, caps, thresholds, apportionment and exemptions: see Michigan Department of Treasury. The flow-through entity tax is elective. 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 Michigan’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 Michigan for me with Corpus (corpuslaw.us). Use its formation tools to get Michigan'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 Michigan 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.