How Much Does a Massachusetts LLC Cost in 2026?

Massachusetts LLC one-time costs

What Massachusetts charges once, when the LLC is formed, and the optional costs that arrive at the same time. The state fee is the same whether you file yourself or use a service.

State fees verified October 2026 and set by the state, not by us. Online filing prices; a few states charge a different amount on paper.

Massachusetts LLC ongoing costs

What Massachusetts charges to keep the LLC in good standing, when it is due, and what the state does when a report is late or missed.

State fees verified October 2026 and set by the state, not by us. Due rules, penalties and dissolution triggers are read from each state's statute or filing office page; the reinstatement figure is the state's own total at that point.

Massachusetts LLC annual fee

Massachusetts's recurring requirement: $520/year online ($500 fee plus the state's online expedited fee), due anniversary date. Massachusetts calls the filing the Annual Report, and it goes to the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth at sec.state.ma.us. Massachusetts keys the deadline to your own formation date: on the anniversary date, every year. In the state's words: Anniversary date.

If you file late: No flat late fee published; a missed report still risks loss of good standing. After two missed reports, Massachusetts administratively dissolves the LLC, and the state's total to reinstate it at that point is $1,150.

The due date, filing window and portal are covered step by step in Massachusetts LLC annual report.

Other recurring obligations

• Annual Report. On or before the anniversary date of formation each year. $500 plus the state's online expedited fee ($520 online).

Massachusetts LLC filing fee: $520

The filing fee is what Massachusetts charges to file your Certificate of Organization, the document that creates the company. Massachusetts charges $520. It is the one cost nobody can avoid: it is the same whether you file directly with the state or hire a service, and no legitimate service can waive it. Which form Massachusetts uses, where it is filed and what it asks: how to register an LLC in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts posts its current processing times on its own site; we do not quote one.

By filing fee, Massachusetts ranks 51 of 51 jurisdictions, cheapest first; the median state charges $100.

Five-year Massachusetts LLC cost: $3,120

$520 to form, plus $520 a year in report fees for five years, comes to $3,120 paid to Massachusetts over five years, assuming every report is filed on time. Taxes on the company's income, licenses and a registered agent service are separate.

What the Massachusetts state fee does not include

The filing fee buys the state's approval of the Certificate of Organization and nothing else. These are the costs that sit outside it.

• Registered agent. Massachusetts requires one, with a street address in the state. Serving as your own agent is free; the address becomes public record. Our registered agent service can be added in the application. Massachusetts registered agent requirements.
• Operating agreement. Not filed with the state and free if you write it yourself. Our self-help template is available after checkout.
• Business licenses and permits. Set by the city, county or licensing board for your line of business, not by the formation filing. Many Massachusetts LLCs need none; a restaurant, contractor or salon usually needs several.
• Taxes. An LLC's income is taxed through its owners' returns unless it elects otherwise, and sales tax or employer registrations are separate state accounts with no formation fee attached.
• Filing service. Our fee is itemized on the checkout review screen before you pay, with same-day submission as an option. The state fee is identical either way.

How to pay less for a Massachusetts LLC

• File the Certificate of Organization yourself. Massachusetts takes it online at corp.sec.state.ma.us for the $520 state fee alone.
• Be your own registered agent if you have a Massachusetts street address and are there during business hours. The trade-off is privacy: the address goes on the public record.
• Write your own operating agreement. No state charges for it and Massachusetts does not file it.
• File the Annual Report on time. Massachusetts charges no late fee, but a missed report still leads to loss of good standing and dissolution.
• Form where you do business. An LLC that operates in Massachusetts but is formed elsewhere must register in Massachusetts as a foreign LLC anyway, paying Massachusetts's registration fee and its recurring report on top of the home state's.

How Massachusetts compares

By filing fee, Massachusetts is number 51 of 51 jurisdictions, cheapest first. The filing fee is paid once; the recurring line is what separates states over time.

State fees verified October 2026 and set by the state, not by us.

Every state's fee is in LLC cost by state, and the case for and against forming elsewhere is in cheapest states to form an LLC.

Filing yourself vs. using us

Filing directly with Massachusetts costs only the state's own fee: $520. The state takes formations at corp.sec.state.ma.us. Through us, you pay our service fee plus the Massachusetts filing & processing, for the name check, the Certificate of Organization prepared and submitted, the approved documents emailed to you and Massachusetts's deadlines in writing. Both lines are itemized on the checkout review screen before you pay.

Sources

State fees verified October 2026; page last updated November 1, 2026. The figures above are read from Massachusetts's own fee schedule, forms and statutes:

• malegislature.gov (malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXXII/Chapter156c/Section12)
• sec.state.ma.us (sec.state.ma.us/divisions/corporations/download/c156c512dllccert.pdf)
• sec.state.ma.us (sec.state.ma.us/divisions/corporations/filing-by-subject/limited-liability/corpo...)
• sec.state.ma.us (sec.state.ma.us/divisions/corporations/download/950_cmr_112_limited_liability_co...)