Every state guide on this site shows a check date next to each fact. This page is the short version: what changed, where, and what we did about it. The newest entries are at the top.
Full check of all 51 jurisdictions
We read the fee schedules, forms, help pages and statutes of all 50 states and Washington, DC, and confirmed over 1,300 individual facts word for word on their official pages. Many state sites refuse visitors from outside the US, so about two thirds of those pages were read from their Internet Archive copies, and each fact on the site says when that is the case.
A fee or deadline we could not confirm on an official page is not shown. The guide then sends you to the state's own fee schedule instead.
Changes found in this check
- Delaware: the annual tax for an LLC is $400, as set in 6 Del. C. 18-1107. One older Division of Corporations help page still shows a lower figure. Our Delaware guide and the fee table use $400.
- Georgia: the Secretary of State's fee schedule now adds a $10 service charge to each filing. LLC articles cost $110, a name reservation $35 and a Certificate of Existence $20. Some older state pages still show the fees without the charge. See the Georgia guide.
- Texas: company records moved to the new SOSPortal, which replaced SOSDirect. A search still costs $1, and the Comptroller's franchise tax status search remains free. See the Texas guide.
- Michigan: the MiBusiness Registry Portal replaced the old LARA filing and search sites, which the state has retired. See the Michigan guide.
- Tennessee: filings and annual reports moved to TNCaB, the new charity and business filing system. You need a TNCaB account to file an annual report. See the Tennessee guide.
- Arizona: the Arizona Corporation Commission warns that a private site called Arizona Business Filings is not connected to it. Use the Commission's own portal, linked from our Arizona guide.
Where states disagree with themselves
Sometimes two official pages give different numbers. We use the newer, dated document, such as a fee schedule with a revision date, over an undated help page, and we keep a note of the conflict for the next check. If you have seen a newer official page than the one we cite, send it to us.
How often we check
We plan a full pass of every state each quarter, plus a quick check of any state that announces a fee change or a new filing portal. Each guide's check dates show when its facts were last confirmed.