Form an LLC · MS

How to form an LLC in Mississippi

Mississippi LLCs are formed by filing a Certificate of Formation with the Mississippi Secretary of State, Business Services Division. Corpus prepares and files it for $250 all-in, including your first year of registered-agent service.

Form your Mississippi LLC

What Mississippi requires

Formation document
Certificate of Formation verified 2026-09-24
Filing office
Mississippi Secretary of State, Business Services Division verified 2026-09-24
Mississippi filing fee for the Certificate of Formation
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with Mississippi Secretary of State, Business Services Division
Online filing
Yes — You can form a Mississippi LLC through the Secretary of State's online business portal. verified 2026-09-24
Standard processing time
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with Mississippi Secretary of State, Business Services Division
Expedited options
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with Mississippi Secretary of State, Business Services Division
Name requirement
The name must contain “limited liability company,” “limited company,” “LLC,” or “L.L.C.” verified 2026-09-24
Registered agent
Required — A Mississippi LLC must maintain a registered agent and registered office in the state. verified 2026-09-24
LLC statute
Revised Mississippi Limited Liability Company Act, Miss. Code Ann. § 79-29-101 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?

Mississippi asks nothing beyond the standard questions.

What it costs with Corpus

State fees (filing fee + the state's processing charges)
$54
Registered agent, year one
$100
Corpus service
$96
Total at checkout
$250

State fees are Mississippi’s filing fee plus the state’s processing charges for the way Corpus files.

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
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with Mississippi Secretary of State, Business Services Division
Report fee
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with Mississippi Secretary of State, Business Services Division
Franchise or privilege tax
$25 minimum corporation franchise tax — only if the LLC is treated as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. verified 2026-09-30
  • Rates, caps, thresholds, apportionment and exemptions: see Mississippi Department of Revenue. A default disregarded or partnership-classified LLC is outside the corporation franchise tax. 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 Mississippi’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 Mississippi for me with Corpus (corpuslaw.us). Use its formation tools to get Mississippi'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 Mississippi 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.