New Mexico LLC
Form an LLC in New Mexico.
- $50 to form
- No annual report
- Online filing only
What a New Mexico LLC costs
The state's own fees, passed on at cost. Our package is separate and shown before you pay.
- Articles of Organization
- $50
- The state's filing fee, passed on at cost.
- Name reservation (optional)
- $20
- Holds a name for 120 days. It can be passed to someone else, but the 120 days don't restart.
- Certified copy (optional)
- $35
- $10 for a copy of your articles plus $25 to certify it, which some banks ask for. Any other certificate from the state, such as one showing the LLC is in good standing, is $25.
- Yearly state fee
- $0
- New Mexico charges LLCs no annual report fee or yearly tax.
- Changing your agent or office later
- $20
- Only if you ever move your registered agent or registered office.
- Our package
- From $19.99
- Filing, your company documents and first-year reminders. What each package includes
- Total to form
- $69.99with Core
- $249with Complete
- The state's fee, plus our package. Complete also covers rush processing, your registered agent and EIN. Optional extras aren't included. The extra state fees, explained
How to form a New Mexico LLC, step by step
- Choose a name New Mexico will acceptIt must include "Limited Liability Company", "Limited Company", "LLC", "L.L.C.", "LC" or "L.C.", and be distinguishable from every company already on New Mexico's records. Reserving a name is optional: $20 holds it for 120 days.
- Appoint a registered agent in New MexicoThe agent must be a New Mexico resident, or a company with a place of business in New Mexico at the registered office. The agent signs a statement accepting the appointment, which is filed with the articles.
- File the Articles of Organization onlineNew Mexico takes business filings online only, through the Secretary of State's portal; paper isn't accepted. The articles give the name, the registered office's street address and agent, and the principal place of business if it's somewhere else. The fee is $50.
- Say how it will be runThe articles only need a statement if managers will run the LLC, or if it may operate with a single member. They don't ask for owners' or managers' names.
- Put the operating agreement in placeNew Mexico defines an operating agreement as a written one, and the LLC keeps it with its own records rather than filing it. Both our packages include one, which banks usually ask to see.
What we handle for your New Mexico LLC
New Mexico asks very little: file online and keep a registered agent. That second part is the one that matters, because losing your agent is what gets an LLC revoked.
- We check your name against New Mexico's records and file your Articles online, so you don't need a portal account.
- Our registered agent keeps your LLC in good standing, included for the first year with our Complete package.
- The person who signs the articles can be us, so your name stays off the record.
- With nothing to file each year, we keep your agent in place and remind you before it renews.
Every year after
- What
- Nothing to file with the state: New Mexico LLCs have no annual report
- Yearly fee
- $0
- Keep
- A registered agent and registered office in New Mexico, all year
- If it lapses
- The state can revoke the LLC after 30 days without an agent, or 30 days without filing a change of agent or office
- Taxes
- Filed with the Taxation and Revenue Department, not the Secretary of State
Those registered agent rules are the only grounds New Mexico's LLC law gives for revoking an LLC, and its list of LLC fees has no yearly charge.
An LLC with two or more owners, taxed the default way as a partnership, files Form PTE by its federal due date and holds back New Mexico tax from each non-resident owner's share. A one-owner LLC taxed the default way, as part of its owner's return, doesn't file it.
Anyone doing business in New Mexico registers with the Taxation and Revenue Department for gross receipts and other taxes. Registering is free.
What goes on the public record
The articles don't ask for owners' or managers' names, only a statement if managers run the LLC, and New Mexico has no annual report to add them later. The person who signs the articles is named with the capacity they sign in. They don't have to be an owner, so that can be us.
If you live outside the US
- New Mexico has no residency or citizenship rule for the people who form the LLC, and they don't have to be its members.
- You'll need a commercial registered agent: an individual agent has to live in New Mexico. Ours is included for the first year with our Complete package.
- A business with no physical presence in New Mexico counts as engaging in business there, and must register for tax, only after a year with at least $100,000 of taxable receipts sourced to the state.
- At the federal level, your EIN is applied for by phone, fax or mail, and a single-owner LLC files Form 5472 every year.
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Questions people ask
Does a New Mexico LLC file an annual report?
No. New Mexico's LLC law has no annual report and no yearly fee. What you must keep is a registered agent in New Mexico, because losing one is what the state can revoke an LLC for.
Can I file on paper?
No. The Secretary of State takes business filings online only, through its portal. We file for you, so you won't need a portal account.
Do I need to live in New Mexico?
No. The people forming the LLC don't need to live there or be its members. You do need a registered agent in New Mexico, which our Complete package includes for the first year.
Will my name be public?
Not as an owner or manager: the articles don't ask for those names, and there's no annual report later. The person who signs the articles is named on them, and that can be us.
Is New Mexico the right state for my LLC?
Its main draw is that the state charges nothing yearly. If you live in the US and work from another state, you'd likely have to register there as well, so forming at home is often simpler, and we form LLCs in every state. Founders abroad often compare it with Wyoming and Delaware.