Kansas Foreign Registration / Costs

What a Kansas foreign registration costs, and what keeping it costs

Kansas charges $115 to register a foreign LLC on Form FA, then $90 online ($110 on paper) for each information report, which falls due every second year. Leaving costs $30 online. A registration with nothing owed back and one later report comes to $295 over the first two cycles. We add $199 for preparing and mailing the packet. Your home state's charges are separate, and Kansas takes no home certificate.

Every Kansas charge an LLC meets

Filing	Amount	Comment
Foreign application, Form FA	$115	Paper filing; same fee for every entity type
Information report, online	$90	Form ILC, every second year by April 15
Information report, paper	$110	Same form, mailed
Change of resident agent or office, online	$30	Form ROA
Change of resident agent or office, paper	$35	Form ROA
Certificate of cancellation, online	$30	Form FC
Certificate of cancellation, paper	$35	Form FC

The statute for LLC information reports names a base fee and leaves the rest to the Secretary of State's rules. The form gives the full amounts above.

Other entity types on the same form

Entity	Registration	Information report
Corporation for profit	$115	$90 online, $110 paper
Nonprofit corporation	$115	$80 online or paper
Limited partnership	$115	Form ILP; quoted when you order
Limited liability partnership	$115	Form ILL; quoted when you order

Kansas publishes report forms for limited partnerships and limited liability partnerships. We quote no amount for them here; ask us before ordering a partnership filing.

Costs when reports are owed

A business that was already working in Kansas before it registered must enclose the information reports it skipped, and each report carries a fee. When any of them is filed after the forfeiture date, a one-time $85 penalty joins the $115 application fee, except for not-for-profit corporations. With one missed report at the paper rate the bill is $310, and with two it is $420. These totals price each report at the paper rate.

Reinstatement after forfeiture, by number of reports

Reports	Filing, penalty and reports	Total
One	$35 + $85 + $110	$230
Two	$35 + $85 + 2 x $110	$340
Three	$35 + $85 + 3 x $110	$450
Four	$35 + $85 + 4 x $110	$560
Five (the maximum)	$35 + $85 + 5 x $110	$670

These come from the fee table on Form RL, the certificate of reinstatement for LLCs, LLPs and LPs. A not-for-profit corporation pays $100 in total: a $20 filing fee, no penalty and one $80 report.

Sample totals for the first cycles

Path	Kansas total
Register, nothing owed back	$115
Register, then file two reports online	$295
Register, then change the agent once, online	$145
Register, then withdraw online	$145
Register, then withdraw on paper	$150

What our fee covers

For $199 you get a completed form, a count of the reports your start date requires, a card cover page or check prepared, the mailing, and the return of the certified copy to you. The Kansas fee appears as its own line, and so does anything your home state charges.

Costs outside the Kansas schedule

The good standing statement costs nothing extra, since it sits on the form. Your home state may bill its own yearly tax or report, and a commercial resident agent charges for the service. Two common home-state bills are totalled beside Kansas's on the Delaware page and the Wyoming page, and the resident agent page describes what a Kansas agent must do.

Paying Kansas

The form packet accepts checks made out to the Kansas Secretary of State and credit or debit cards through a cover page. One cover page can cover several documents filed together, which helps when reports ride with the application, and the card details are destroyed once the document is filed. Records are public: any filed document can be viewed and printed online at no cost, and certified copies are sold online.

Urgent filings

If a filing is urgent, mention your deadline when you order.

Registered agent: first year included, then $149 a year

$199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.

Cost questions

Why is the information report priced two ways?

The form lists $90 online and $110 on paper for an LLC.

Is the Kansas fee higher for a corporation?

No. Form FA lists $115 for corporations and the same amount for every other entity type.

Do I pay a penalty for registering late?

Only when information reports are filed after the forfeiture date. In that case the bill grows by $85 once, and not-for-profit corporations are exempt.

Our fee and the state's

Kansas's fee is a separate line at checkout and is the same for every kind of business. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.

Register in Kansas

$199

+ $115 Kansas fee

Form FA, the Application for Registration, Foreign (non-Kansas) Business, completed from your answers
The sworn good standing statement the form carries, ready for an authorized person to sign
A Kansas resident agent and registered office: ours, or the ones you already use
The packet mailed with payment, and the certified copy Kansas returns passed on to you
Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year

Sources

Already working in Kansas?

Tell us the month you began and we price any back reports with the registration.