Arizona — statewide
Arizona Corporation Commission, Corporations Division
In short
Arizona Corporation Commission, Corporations Division issues 5 permits we publish for Arizona — statewide, last verified 2026-09-03. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual Reportonly if it applies to you | Arizona Corporation Commission, Corporations Division | $45 a year for a corporation; $10 for a nonprofit — an LLC files none | annual, in the corporation's anniversary month on a date the Commission sets | 2026-09-03 |
| Publication of the Formation Noticeonly if it applies to you | Arizona Corporation Commission, Corporations Division | No fee | within 60 days of approval, in three consecutive publications | 2026-09-03 |
| Articles of Organization (LLC)only if it applies to you | Arizona Corporation Commission, Corporations Division | $50 one-time filing; $85 expedited | perpetual — Arizona LLCs file no annual report | 2026-09-03 |
| Articles of Incorporationonly if it applies to you | Arizona Corporation Commission, Corporations Division | $60 one-time filing; $95 expedited | perpetual, but an annual report is due each anniversary month | 2026-09-03 |
| Automotive Repair Licensing — State of Arizona positiononly if it applies to you | Arizona Corporation Commission, Corporations Division | No fee | not applicable | 2026-09-03 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Annual Report
Only corporations file this — the Commission says so in terms, and the statute bears it out. The due date is not a common calendar day but a date the Commission assigns inside the anniversary month, so it differs for every corporation, and a six-month extension may be requested but only on or before that date. The penalty is unusually harsh: twenty per cent of the fee per month or part of a month, which is nine dollars a month on a $45 report and compounds until the corporation is administratively dissolved. Nonprofits are not penalised at all. Reinstatement is possible for six years at $100.
Publication of the Formation Notice
No government fee — the Commission charges nothing to publish and nothing to file the optional affidavit; what you pay is whatever the newspaper charges, and no official source sets that. In Maricopa and Pima counties you pay nothing at all, because the Commission publishes the notice itself on its public notice database, those being the only two Arizona counties above the eight hundred thousand population threshold the statute uses. The trap is that the test differs by entity type: for an LLC it is the statutory agent's street address, and for a corporation it is the corporation's own known place of business. An LLC formed by an owner in a rural county but using a Phoenix agent is exempt; a corporation in the same position is not. Publication must happen within sixty days of approval and not before it.
Articles of Organization (LLC)
$50 to form, and then nothing — Arizona is one of very few states where an LLC files no annual report at all and pays no franchise tax. That is not an inference from a missing page: the phrase annual report appears exactly once in the whole of title 29 and it is in the limited liability partnership article, while the LLC Act's own fee schedule has no such line. Note that Arizona LLPs do file one, so the exemption is not general to unincorporated entities. Accelerated service is available on top of the $85 expedited fee, at $100 for next day up to $400 for two hours. Every Commission fee is non-refundable.
Articles of Incorporation
The published fee is $60 while the fee section says $50, and the difference is not an error in either: a separate subsection adds a $10 data-processing charge on articles of incorporation, and $25 on a foreign corporation's application for authority. So a for-profit corporation pays $60, a nonprofit $40 and a foreign corporation $175, and every published figure reconciles exactly. LLCs have no equivalent surcharge, which is the entire reason a corporation costs ten dollars more here. A certificate of disclosure must accompany the articles but carries no fee. Unlike an LLC, a corporation then files an annual report every year.
Automotive Repair Licensing — State of Arizona position
No fee: Arizona Revised Statutes title 32, the professions and occupations title, runs to chapter 48, covering everything from acupuncture to security guards, and its chapter list names no automotive or vehicle repair chapter; the vehicle chapter of the transport title is titled for dealers, automotive recyclers and transporters, not repairers; and the trade and commerce title reaches vehicles only through consumer protection, warranties and odometer rules. The single state permit that touches repair is an environmental one available only to an owner or lessee of a fleet of at least twenty-five vehicles wanting to emissions-test its own fleet. A repair shop still needs a transaction privilege tax license, because repair labour and parts fall in taxable classifications, and a city business license where the municipality requires one.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Arizona — statewide
- Phone
- (602) 542-3026
- Website
- azcc.gov/corporations
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Arizona Corporation Commission — Business Services FAQs — 'Do LLCs file annual reports?' (LLCs are not required to; only corporations are)Arizona Corporation Commission · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-08
- Arizona Revised Statutes section 10-122 — corporation filing fees, including the data-processing surcharge in subsection HArizona State Legislature · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
- Arizona Revised Statutes section 10-130 — the Commission's public notice database and the 800,000-population exemptionArizona State Legislature · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
- Arizona Revised Statutes section 10-1622 — corporate annual report, due date and penaltyArizona State Legislature · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
- Arizona Revised Statutes section 29-3201 — publication of the notice of filing of articles of organizationArizona State Legislature · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
- Arizona Revised Statutes section 29-3213 — limited liability company filing feesArizona State Legislature · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
- Arizona Revised Statutes title 32 — the complete list of professions and occupations Arizona licensesArizona State Legislature · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
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