Form an LLC · NJ

How to form an LLC in New Jersey

New Jersey LLCs are formed by filing a Certificate of Formation with the New Jersey Department of the Treasury, Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services — 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 New Jersey LLC

What New Jersey requires

Formation document
Certificate of Formation verified 2026-09-24
Filing office
New Jersey Department of the Treasury, Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services verified 2026-09-24
New Jersey filing fee for the Certificate of Formation
$100 Certificate of formation filing fee. verified 2026-09-30
  • Optional: $50 LLC name reservation (optional). source
Online filing
Yes — New Jersey accepts online domestic LLC formation filings through its business formation service. verified 2026-09-24 (secondary source)
Standard processing time
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with New Jersey Department of the Treasury, Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services
Expedited options
Over-the-counter expedited service $25 (per filing; over-the-counter transactions only); Same-day fax service $50 (fax filings only); 2-hour service $500 (per document); 1-hour service $1,000 (per document) verified 2026-09-30
  • The fee schedule states these optional expedite fees and does not state a standard turnaround. source
Name requirement
The name must contain “limited liability company,” “limited liability co.,” “LLC” or “L.L.C.” verified 2026-09-24
Registered agent
Required — A New Jersey LLC must maintain a registered office and agent for service of process in the state. verified 2026-09-24
LLC statute
Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, N.J.S.A. § 42:2C-1 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?

New Jersey also asks:

  • Whether to list members/managers on the state record.

What it costs with Corpus

State fees (filing fee + the state's processing charges)
$130
Registered agent, year one
$100
Corpus service
$20
Total at checkout
$250

$130 = New Jersey’s $100 in formation fees for an online filing + $30 of other state processing charges for the way Corpus files (expedite, card or online-portal fees).

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 — last day of the month in which the business was formed, each year. verified 2026-09-30
Report fee
$75 verified 2026-09-30
Franchise or privilege tax
Only if the default partnership-classified LLC has more than two owners and New Jersey-source income or loss, absent an applicable exception. verified 2026-09-30
  • Rates, caps, thresholds, apportionment and exemptions: see New Jersey Division of Taxation; the agency describes partnership-fee exceptions and prepayment rules. source · source 2 · source 3 · source 4

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