Mississippi LLC filing: about $53 to form, a free annual report, and the trap that free is not optional

Every figure on this page comes from the Mississippi Secretary of State and the Department of Revenue, not an aggregator. Mississippi is one of the least expensive states to keep an LLC: about $53 to form online, and an annual report that costs nothing. That makes the state cheap to maintain, but the free report carries a trap worth stating plainly, because free is not the same as optional. The report is still required every year, and precisely because no fee is attached to remind the owner, it is the kind of obligation that quietly slips, and missing it dissolves the company.

Forming the company

Formation is a single online filing.

Mississippi forms an LLC on a Certificate of Formation filed online for $50 plus a $3 processing fee, about $53 total.

You create a Mississippi LLC by filing the Certificate of Formation through the Secretary of State’s portal at business.sos.ms.gov, which is online only, for $50 plus a $3 processing fee, naming the company and a registered agent with a Mississippi address. There is no publication requirement and no minimum tax at formation, so roughly $53 is the full cost of standing the entity up.

The free report, and why free is dangerous

The recurring obligation costs nothing, which is exactly the risk.

Mississippi’s domestic LLC annual report is free but required every April 15, and missing it leads to administrative dissolution.

Every Mississippi domestic LLC files an annual report with the Secretary of State by April 15, and the report is free. That makes Mississippi one of the most affordable states for ongoing maintenance, but the absence of a fee is a hazard rather than a pure benefit. A filing that comes with a bill gets an owner’s attention; a free filing does not, so owners routinely forget the Mississippi report because nothing about it feels like a payment due. Missing it leads to administrative dissolution, which ends the good standing the liability shield on the protection page depends on, and the strong charging-order protection Mississippi offers does an owner no good if the entity has been dissolved for skipping a free form. So the discipline in Mississippi is to treat the free April 15 report as a hard obligation, not a courtesy, and put it on the calendar as if it carried a fee. Corporations and foreign entities have their own report and fee, but the domestic LLC report is the free one that is easy to lose.

Multiple entities and the missing series

Mississippi’s lack of a series LLC shapes the filing load, though cheaply.

Because Mississippi has no series LLC, each property held in a separate LLC is a separate filer, though each report is free.

A series state lets one entity hold several properties and file once. Mississippi has no series statute, so an investor who wants each property insulated forms a separate LLC for each, and each files its own free annual report by April 15. The good news is that the per-entity cost stays near zero, so holding several Mississippi LLCs is inexpensive; the catch is that the number of free-but-required reports grows with the number of entities, and each one is a chance to forget. A Mississippi multi-property structure therefore needs a calendar that tracks every entity’s April 15 report, precisely because none of them will send a bill to jog the memory. That discipline protects the shield the charging-order statute provides.

The bottom line

A Mississippi LLC forms on a Certificate of Formation filed online for about $53, with a Mississippi-address registered agent.

The domestic LLC annual report is free but required every year by April 15, and missing it leads to administrative dissolution.

Free is not optional: because no fee prompts it, the report is easy to forget, and a forgotten report dissolves the company and drops the shield.

Because Mississippi has no series LLC, each property is a separate LLC with its own free report, so the filings grow with the entities.

The Mississippi discipline is to treat the free April 15 report as a hard deadline for every entity, since none will send a bill to remind you.

What this page does not cover

This page is about fees, forms, and deadlines. How creditors reach a member’s interest, the strong charging order, and the homestead are on the protection page. The general standards of conduct the operating agreement can tailor, and the validity of an oral agreement, are on the governance page. Mississippi’s income tax on its legislated path to zero, the lack of a transfer tax, and the absence of a series LLC are on the structure and cost page.

Last verified August 2026.