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The Oklahoma annual certificate for a foreign LLC
An LLC from another state that is on Oklahoma's register owes an annual certificate on each registration anniversary, with a fee of $25. The filing confirms the company is an active business and gives its principal place of business. After 60 days without it, the LLC ceases to be registered.
The yearly certificate at a glance
- Filing
- annual certificate
- Fee
- $25
- Due
- the anniversary date of the registration
- It states
- confirms active status and gives the principal place of business
- Reminder
- Emailed at least 60 days ahead, to the address of record only
- Grace
- 60 days after the due date
- If missed
- The LLC ceases to be registered
- Fix
- SOS Form 145, no fee of its own
What the annual certificate is
Each LLC on Oklahoma's register, home-grown or foreign, files a certificate every year. The state's form asks whether the company is currently an active business, for the street address of its principal place of business wherever located, and for an email address, and it carries a fee of $25. It is a short form, but it is the one recurring Secretary of State filing for a registered foreign LLC.
When it is due
The certificate is due on the anniversary date of the registration, and continues to fall due until the registration is withdrawn or the articles are cancelled. If your LLC registered on a particular date, that day of the month is your date each year. Put it on a calendar.
How you are told
The Secretary of State sends a notice at least 60 days before the anniversary, and it goes only to the email address of record. No postal reminder follows. If the address on Form 0081 was a former employee's, a lawyer's old inbox or a spam folder, you may never see it. Update the contact email when anything changes.
The sixty days
A foreign LLC that has not filed and paid within 60 days after the due date ceases to be registered. The registration is deemed withdrawn, effective the 61st day after the due date. The same applies when an LLC for which the Secretary of State is the agent fails to pay the agent fee on time.
What lapsing costs
Once the registration has ceased, the Secretary of State will not accept other filings from the LLC or issue a certificate of good standing, with two exceptions: an agent's resignation when no successor is appointed, and an application for reinstatement. The LLC cannot start any court case in Oklahoma, and the same bar binds anyone who succeeds to the company or takes over a claim from the lapsed period. It is the same court bar an unregistered LLC faces.
Reinstatement
The fix is SOS Form 145, the application for reinstatement. It names the business, its home state and the date it ceased to be in good standing, and a manager signs it. The form says no additional fee is due for the application itself, and that every delinquent annual certificate and fee for each year is attached. An LLC whose registration was administratively withdrawn cannot register afresh. It can come back only by reinstatement.
Annual certificate for other entities
A limited partnership files its own annual certificate for $50. A foreign corporation has its own anniversary filing, reporting the most capital it has had in Oklahoma and paying on any excess, with the schedule showing a minimum of $10.
Where to find your date
Your anniversary is the day of the month and the month on which the Secretary of State filed the registration. It appears on the certificate of registration, which the office returns after the filing.
Budgeting the yearly cost
Over three anniversaries the LLC pays $375 in state charges counting the registration, which is the figure on the cost page. A company that is no longer working in Oklahoma can withdraw for $100 instead of paying $25 each year. See the withdrawal page.
Annual certificate questions
How much is the annual certificate?
$25.
When is it due?
On the anniversary of the registration.
Who is told?
The email address of record, at least sixty days before.
What if I forget?
After sixty days the LLC ceases to be registered. Reinstatement needs the back certificates.
Do I file one in the first year?
The first one falls due on the first anniversary of the registration.
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
$199
+ $300 Oklahoma fee
Register in OklahomaOklahoma'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.
Sources
- Oklahoma Secretary of State, filing fees
- SOS Form 0083, procedures for registering a foreign LLC
- Oklahoma Statutes Title 18, fees of the Secretary of State for LLCs
- SOS Form 0081, application for registration of a foreign LLC
- Oklahoma LLC annual certificate form
- Oklahoma Statutes Title 18, annual certificate of an LLC
- SOS Form 0012, certificate of qualification of a foreign corporation
- Oklahoma Statutes Title 18, filing and other service fees
- Oklahoma Secretary of State, business forms
- SOS Form 145, application for reinstatement
- Oklahoma Statutes Title 18, foreign LLC certificate of withdrawal
- Oklahoma Statutes Title 18, failure to pay registered agent fees
- Oklahoma Statutes Title 18, foreign LLC duties of the Secretary of State
- SOS Form 0084, application for withdrawal of a foreign LLC
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