Form an LLC · PA

How to form an LLC in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania LLCs are formed by filing a Certificate of Organization with the Pennsylvania Department of State, Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations — the official filing fee is $125 (see the fee notes below). Corpus prepares and files it for $250 all-in, including your first year of registered-agent service.

Form your Pennsylvania LLC

What Pennsylvania requires

Formation document
Certificate of Organization verified 2026-09-24
Filing office
Pennsylvania Department of State, Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations verified 2026-09-24
Pennsylvania filing fee for the Certificate of Organization
$125 Certificate of Organization. verified 2026-09-30
  • Optional: $70 name reservation or registration. source
  • A docketing statement must accompany the Certificate of Organization. The LLC page does not state a separate fee for that statement. source · source 2
Online filing
Yes — You can file a domestic LLC Certificate of Organization online through Pennsylvania’s Business Hub. verified 2026-09-24
Standard processing time
Standard processing: 15 business days. verified 2026-09-30
Expedited options
1-hour expedited service $1,000 — received before 4:00 p.m. (not accepted through the mail; in addition to the statutory filing fee); 3-hour expedited service $300 — received before 2:00 p.m. (not accepted through the mail; in addition to the statutory filing fee); Same-day expedited service $100 — received before 10:00 a.m. (not accepted through the mail; in addition to the statutory filing fee) verified 2026-09-30
  • The FAQ says to allow 15 business days. Expedited requests are not accepted through the mail. source · source 2
Name requirement
The name must contain “company,” “limited,” “limited liability company,” or an abbreviation. verified 2026-09-24
Registered agent
Not required — Pennsylvania requires a registered office address or commercial registered office provider, but not a registered agent. verified 2026-09-24
LLC statute
Pennsylvania Uniform Limited Liability Company Act of 2016, 15 Pa.C.S. ch. 88 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?

Pennsylvania asks nothing beyond the standard questions.

What it costs with Corpus

State fees (filing fee + the state's processing charges)
$125
Registered agent, year one
$100
Corpus service
$25
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 — january 1 through September 30 each year, beginning the year after formation. verified 2026-09-30
  • Beginning with annual reports due in 2027, failure to file can lead to administrative dissolution, termination, or cancellation six months after the due date. source
Report fee
$7 (for-profit LLC; $0 for an LLC with a not-for-profit purpose) verified 2026-09-30
Franchise or privilege tax
Only if the LLC elects to be taxed as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. verified 2026-09-30
  • Rates, caps, thresholds, apportionment and exemptions: see Pennsylvania Department of Revenue. The capital stock and foreign franchise tax ended for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2016. 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 Pennsylvania’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 Pennsylvania for me with Corpus (corpuslaw.us). Use its formation tools to get Pennsylvania'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 Pennsylvania 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.