Form an LLC · SC

How to form an LLC in South Carolina

South Carolina LLCs are formed by filing Articles of Organization with the South Carolina Secretary of State — the official filing fee is $110 (see the fee notes below). Corpus prepares and files it for $250 all-in, including your first year of registered-agent service.

Form your South Carolina LLC

What South Carolina requires

Formation document
Articles of Organization verified 2026-09-24
Filing office
South Carolina Secretary of State verified 2026-09-24
South Carolina filing fee for the Articles of Organization
$110 Articles of organization filing fee. verified 2026-09-30
  • Optional: $25 name reservation. source
  • Section 33-44-1204 states the articles fee in words, not digits. Section 33-44-202 says the LLC is organized by delivering articles of organization for filing. source
Online filing
Yes — South Carolina allows entity creation filings through its online filing system. verified 2026-09-24
Standard processing time
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with South Carolina Secretary of State
Expedited options
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with South Carolina Secretary of State
Name requirement
The name must contain “limited liability company,” “limited company,” “L.L.C.,” “LLC,” “L.C.” or “LC.” verified 2026-09-24
Registered agent
Required — A South Carolina LLC must continuously maintain an agent and address for service of process in the state. verified 2026-09-24
LLC statute
South Carolina Uniform Limited Liability Company Act of 1996, S.C. Code Ann. § 33-44-101 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?

South Carolina 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

$125 = South Carolina’s $110 in formation fees for an online filing + $15 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
No annual report is required. verified 2026-09-30
  • This is for the default pass-through classification. An LLC taxed as a corporation can be subject to the corporate annual report and license fee. source
Report fee
No fee — no annual report. verified 2026-09-30
Franchise or privilege tax
$25 corporate license fee minimum — only if the LLC elects to be taxed as a corporation. verified 2026-09-30
  • Rates, caps, thresholds, apportionment and exemptions: see South Carolina Department of Revenue. A corporate-classified LLC is subject to the annual license fee with a $25 minimum; default-classified LLCs are excluded. 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 South Carolina’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 South Carolina for me with Corpus (corpuslaw.us). Use its formation tools to get South Carolina'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 South Carolina 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.