Montana LLC - Form an LLC in Montana
Montana LLCs are governed by the Montana code annotated Title 35, chapter 8, The Montana Limited Liability Company Act.
A Montana LLC costs $70.00 to file with the Montana Secretary of State.
It will take about 1 week to get processed by the State, or 1-3 days if you pay an extra $20.00 priority fee, or an extra $100.00 for an expedite 1 hour service fee.
We have an account with the State, so we can file the custom drafted articles of organization we prepare for you immediately upon signing up here. If you are in a super hurry and want to pay the State's extra $100.00 one hour fee, you'll literally have the file stamped articles of organization and an active Montana LLC in 1-2 hours.
We form Montana LLC's every day, and we're usually half the price of any of our competitors.
A Montana LLC with our price will cost you:
| $219.00 | - 5 business days |
| $239.00 | - 1-3 business days |
| $319.00 | - 1-2 hours |
Our Montana LLC includes:
- Custom drafted articles of organization.
- Standard LLC operating agreement written specifically for Montana LLC's.
- Initial resolution made by organizer.
- 1 year of our $49.00 Montana Registered Agent service. The cheapest, no hidden fee, most included registered agent service you'll find anywhere.
- You'll have the owner or our in-house, non-practicing attorney do the filing for you.
- Online account for your documents.
- Annual report reminders.
There's always a couple other options like Tax ID number, Department of Revenue registration, License obtainment, etc., that you can add on. You can see those options on our 1 page, 5 minute sign up form.
I would like to highlight a couple of items of interest for a Montana LLC.
- Montana's LLC's will be taxed at the personal level for you, unless you declare it as a C corporation with the IRS. That means at the end of the year, you'll figure out your net gain or loss, and file a personal tax return with the IRS, and the extra income from the Montana LLC will be taxed like a sole proprietorship disregarded entity.
Montana has the following personal income tax rates:
| $2600 | - 2% |
| $4600 | - 3% |
| $7000 | - 4% |
| $9500 | - 5% |
| $12,200 | - 6% |
| Over $15,600 | - 6.9% |
- Montana has no sales tax, thus a lot of people form Montana LLCs to hold assets they purchase and avoid the sales tax. For more on vehicle licensing, see our Montana RV LLC Service.
Generally speaking, people that form Montana LLCs as holding companies are not trying to take advantage of gains or losses on their taxes, and thus, aren't concerned with filing tax returns or income tax percentages.
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A Montana LLC is the simplest way for a person to start a business in Montana. You pull the money in, you pay for things when you need to, you pay for personal things when you need to, etc… Now lawyers and accountants aren’t going to want to hear that, but let’s face it. It’s your first year in business and you need to pull in as much money as possible. Pull it in, and pay the accountant to deal with it at the end of the year! The next year after you get things going, you can pay yourself a wage, make sure you keep things personally and with the business as separate as possible. You want to avoid mingling personal items and business items and expenses as much as possible. We see so many businesses fail, because people spent too much time worrying about the small details instead of focusing on the main thing in starting a business… PULL THE MONEY IN!!
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Montana LLCs have to file annual reports with the Secretary of State every April 15th. They cost $15.00 and are basically just an informational update opportunity. they will take you about 5-10 minutes to file on the Montana SOS website. As your Montana registered agent, we send you reminders and notices about this each year. We can also file this on your behalf if you would like.
- title 35-8-107 talks about the powers of a Montana LLC. Such as operating on its own, independent from the members and managers of the LLC. Having the ability to sue, and be sued, transact business, make and enter into contracts, sell items, and transfer items, acquire and make purchases, be an owner of another corporation or company, pay what it would like to pay someone or something, and basically coperate completely independent of anything else.
- title 35-8-2 is for the formation of a Montana LLC.
- title 35-8-3 is for the limitiation of the members or managers liability by soleing being a member or manager.
- Title 35-8-6 governs the distribution of LLCs and states that if no agreement has been formally entered into, that the LLC will distribute profits evenly according to the percentage of capitalization.
If you would like our help forming a Montana LLC for you, we would be honored to help you start your Montana business or holding company.
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