New York — statewide
New York State Department of State, Division of Corporations, State Records and Uniform Commercial Code
In short
New York State Department of State, Division of Corporations, State Records and Uniform Commercial Code issues 4 permits we publish for New York — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Certificate of Incorporationonly if it applies to you | New York State Department of State, Division of Corporations, State Records and Uniform Commercial Code | $125 one-time filing | no expiry, but a biennial statement is due every two years | 2026-09-03 |
| Biennial Statementonly if it applies to you | New York State Department of State, Division of Corporations, State Records and Uniform Commercial Code | $9 per filing, every two years | biennial | 2026-09-03 |
| Articles of Organization (LLC)only if it applies to you | New York State Department of State, Division of Corporations, State Records and Uniform Commercial Code | $200 one-time filing | no expiry, but a biennial statement is due every two years | 2026-09-03 |
| Certificate of Publication (LLC) | New York State Department of State, Division of Corporations, State Records and Uniform Commercial Code | $50 state filing fee only | one-time, due within 120 days of formation | 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
Certificate of Incorporation
$125, the statutory filing fee stated on the Department of State's Certificate of Incorporation page, which lists no newspaper publication step for a corporation, unlike an LLC — in New York City that can make incorporating hundreds of dollars cheaper than forming an LLC despite similar filing fees. A further $20 applies where State Education Department consent is needed, which catches professional practices. Not-for-profit corporations file on a different schedule.
Biennial Statement
$9 every two years — the cheapest recurring state filing of any state covered here, and the same amount for an LLC and a corporation. It falls due in the calendar month in which the original formation document was filed, not on a fixed date, so diarise the month you registered. Expedited handling is not available for this one.
Articles of Organization (LLC)
$200 to file, which is only the start of forming a New York LLC. Within 120 days you must also publish notice in two newspapers for six successive weeks and file a Certificate of Publication at $50 — and the newspaper advertising, which the county clerk designates and no state agency caps, routinely costs more than every state fee combined. Incorporating instead costs $125 and carries no publication requirement at all, which is the single biggest cost difference between the two structures in this state. Expedited handling is $25 for 24 hours, $75 for same day or $150 for two hours.
Certificate of Publication (LLC)
$50 is the state's fee and almost certainly the smaller half of what you will pay. New York requires every new LLC to publish a notice once a week for six successive weeks in TWO newspapers in the county where its office sits — one printed daily, one printed weekly — and the county clerk, not the business, designates which papers. Those papers set their own rates, no state agency caps them, and no official New York source publishes a figure, so no advertising cost is quoted here: it is genuinely not state-set and varies enormously by county. What is fixed is the consequence of missing the deadline. Section 206 suspends the LLC's authority to carry on business in New York at the end of the 120-day period. A corporation has no equivalent obligation.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- New York — statewide
- Phone
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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.
- New York Department of State — Articles of Organization for a domestic limited liability companyNew York State Department of State · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
- New York Department of State — biennial statements for business corporations and limited liability companiesNew York State Department of State · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
- New York Department of State — Certificate of Incorporation for a domestic business corporation (form DOS-1239-f)New York State Department of State · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
- New York Department of State — Certificate of Publication for a domestic limited liability company (form DOS-1708-f)New York State Department of State · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
- New York Limited Liability Company Law section 206 — publication in two newspapers for six successive weeks within 120 daysNew York State Senate · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
Other New York statewide offices
- New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Community Environmental Health and Food Protection
- New York State Department of State, Division of Licensing Services
- New York State Department of Labor
- New York State Department of Taxation and Finance
- New York State Education Department, Office of the Professions
- New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Division of Child Care Services
New York jurisdictions
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