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Taking a Delaware LLC into Oklahoma

A Delaware LLC pays Oklahoma $300 to register and $50 to Delaware for the certificate, $350 on the first day, and then carries two yearly bills: Delaware's $400 tax and Oklahoma's $25 certificate. The first year across both states, without the certificate, is $700.

Delaware and Oklahoma side by side

Item	Delaware	Oklahoma
Recurring charge	$400 tax each year	$25 annual certificate
Due date	June 1	Registration anniversary
Late charge	$200 penalty and interest	Standing lost after sixty days
Home paper	Short form at $50	An original dated inside 60 days
Original filing	Already formed	$300 registration
Agent	Delaware registered agent	Oklahoma registered agent

The Delaware certificate

Delaware's shortest good standing certificate costs $50, and its longer forms cost more. Keep the Delaware tax current so the certificate you order reflects it. We check which form to order when we prepare your filing. Whichever form you choose, Oklahoma wants an original from the certifying officer, not a copy, and the date on it starts the sixty-day clock.

Two calendars

A Delaware LLC working in Oklahoma runs two calendars. Delaware's tax is payable by June 1 each year, and a payment that misses the date carries a $200 penalty. Oklahoma's certificate falls due on the anniversary of the Oklahoma registration, whatever day of the year that is. The two dates do not line up, and a company that tracks only one of them will fall behind on the other.

Delaware tax follows the entity

Delaware levies the tax on every LLC whose status was active for any part of the tax year, unprorated. Oklahoma adds nothing to it and subtracts nothing from it. A Delaware LLC registered in Oklahoma pays Delaware every year and Oklahoma every anniversary.

Completing Form 0081 when Delaware is home

Item 1 is the Delaware name, which must carry one of the endings Oklahoma allows. Item 2 is Delaware and item 3 is the Delaware formation date. Item 4 is the Oklahoma registered agent, because a Delaware agent does not serve here. Item 6 is the Delaware office address or the principal office, and item 7 is a monitored email.

Agents in two states

Delaware has its own rule: its registered agent holds a street address inside Delaware. Leave the Oklahoma agent unnamed and the Secretary of State steps in, billing $40 every July 1.

If the Delaware tax goes unpaid

A foreign LLC that leaves its Delaware tax unpaid loses its Delaware registration, and getting it back takes payment of the tax plus penalties and interest. That is a Delaware matter, and it is worth fixing before the company relies on a Delaware certificate for an Oklahoma filing.

First-year costs of a Delaware LLC in Oklahoma

Charge	Paid to	Amount
Registration	Oklahoma	$300
Home certificate	Delaware	$50
Annual LLC tax	Delaware	$400
Total in year one	Both states	$750

The Oklahoma annual certificate adds $25 on the first anniversary.

Names that do not travel

A Delaware name that Oklahoma already holds for another entity, or that fails Oklahoma's distinguishability test, needs a fictitious name statement from the manager for use in Oklahoma. The statement is attached to the application and the fictitious name is used in Oklahoma in place of the true one. Check name availability before ordering the certificate.

Which Delaware certificate to order

Delaware issues more than one kind. Oklahoma accepts either good standing or existence paper from the certifying officer if it is an original dated within 60 days.

Why the dates matter more for Delaware companies

Delaware's tax and Oklahoma's certificate fall on different dates. Pay Delaware first and order the certificate second, so the certificate reflects a current record.

Series and holding structures

A Delaware LLC that is one layer of a holding structure registers in its own name. A parent that is only a member of the Oklahoma-active LLC is not doing business here on that basis alone.

Mergers

If a Delaware LLC later merges and survives, Oklahoma asks for a certificate of the merger from the home officer when the merger changes the statements in the registration or involves another foreign entity.

Registering a Delaware LLC in Oklahoma

Settle Delaware first
Pay the $400 tax so the Delaware record is current.
Order the certificate
A Delaware good standing certificate no more than 60 days old at filing.
Pick the Oklahoma agent
A person or business that can take legal papers at an Oklahoma street address.
Complete Form 0081
Seven items, with Delaware as the state of formation.
File
Send the application, the certificate and $300.
Diary both dates
Delaware's tax by June 1; Oklahoma's certificate on the anniversary.

Questions from Delaware owners

Does Oklahoma accept a Delaware certificate?

Yes, an original dated within 60 days.

Does my Delaware agent serve in Oklahoma?

Only if it qualifies in Oklahoma and keeps an office there.

Does the Delaware certificate need to be a long form?

No. Oklahoma accepts good standing or existence paper, as an original dated within the limit.

Our fee and the state's

Register in Oklahoma

The application completed from your answers
Your home certificate, dated within Oklahoma's age limit
An Oklahoma registered agent from us, or the one you pick
The certificate of registration returned to you
Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year

Oklahoma

$199

+ $300 Oklahoma fee

Oklahoma's fee is $300, listed separately from our own. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.

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