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Virginia State Corporation Commission, Office of the Clerk

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Virginia State Corporation Commission, Office of the Clerk issues 5 permits we publish for Virginia — 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

Permits required, with issuing agency, fee, renewal term and the date each record was last verified against its source
Articles of Organization (LLC)only if it applies to youVirginia State Corporation Commission, Office of the Clerk$100 one-time filingno expiry, but a $50 annual registration fee is due every year2026-09-03
Articles of Incorporationonly if it applies to youVirginia State Corporation Commission, Office of the Clerk$75–$2,525 one-time — a $25 filing fee plus a charter fee on authorised sharesno expiry, but an annual registration fee and a free annual report are due2026-09-03
Annual Registration Feeonly if it applies to youVirginia State Corporation Commission, Office of the Clerk$50–$850 a year — $50 flat for an LLC, $50 to $850 for a corporation by authorised sharesannual — the last day of the twelfth month after the month of formation2026-09-03
General Business License — Local BPOL License (Virginia)only if it applies to youVirginia State Corporation Commission, Office of the ClerkNo state fee. A locality may charge up to $50 where its population exceeds 25,000, or $30 below that, plus a tax on gross receipts once you pass its thresholdannual — usually due 1 March2026-09-03
Automotive Repair Licensing — Commonwealth of Virginia positiononly if it applies to youVirginia State Corporation Commission, Office of the ClerkNo feenot applicable2026-09-03

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

Articles of Organization (LLC)

$100 flat, and a Virginia LLC then files no annual report at all — only a $50 annual registration fee, due on the last day of the twelfth month after the month it was organised and every year on that date. The absence of a report is not an oversight in our reading: the LLC Act has an article for annual registration fees and none for annual reports, and the corporate report section by its terms binds only corporations. Miss the fee and a $25 penalty follows; leave it unpaid to the last day of the third month after the due date and the company's existence is cancelled automatically.

Articles of Incorporation

Quoting $25 to incorporate in Virginia is wrong: the charter fee is mandatory and additional, at $50 for each 25,000 authorised shares or part of them up to a million shares, then a flat $2,500 above that. So the minimum is $75 and the practical maximum $2,525 — and the cliff is sharp, because authorising a million shares costs $2,000 in charter fee while authorising one more costs $2,500. It is charged on authorised shares, not issued ones, and increasing the authorisation later triggers a top-up for the difference. Unlike an LLC a corporation does file an annual report, but it is free; the money is the annual registration fee, $50 up to five thousand authorised shares then $15 for each further five thousand, capped at $850.

Annual Registration Fee

The due date is the entity's own anniversary month rather than a common calendar date, which makes it easy to miss. An LLC pays $50 whatever its size; a corporation pays $50 up to five thousand authorised shares and $15 for each further five thousand, capped at $850 — so the share count you chose at formation follows you every year. Penalties differ too: a flat $25 for an LLC, and ten per cent or $10, whichever is greater, for a corporation. The deadline after that is what matters most. An LLC is cancelled automatically if the fee is unpaid by the last day of the third month after the due date; a corporation is terminated at the fourth. You also cannot pay early — the Commission assesses about two months ahead and will not take money before it does.

General Business License — Local BPOL License (Virginia)

No state fee, because the whole license-tax chapter of the Code sits inside the Local Taxes subtitle and the obligation arises only from a local ordinance. Two things about the threshold are routinely got wrong. It exempts you from the license TAX, not the license FEE — the statute expressly excepts the fee — so a locality can charge $50 to a business turning over ten thousand dollars. And the population that sets the threshold is the locality's, not the business's: under $100,000 of gross receipts in a locality above fifty thousand people, or $50,000 in one between twenty-five and fifty thousand, no tax is due, while a locality under twenty-five thousand people has no statutory floor at all. Above the threshold the rate caps run 16 cents per hundred dollars for contracting, 20 for retail, 36 for services and repair, and 58 for professional and financial work. A separate license is needed for each definite place of business. Localities that charged more on 1 January 1978 may keep those higher rates.

Automotive Repair Licensing — Commonwealth of Virginia position

No fee: the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation's published roster of regulated occupations — around fifty of them, from architects to wrestlers — names no automotive, motor vehicle or mechanical repair occupation; the motor vehicle department's own business portal lists only motor carriers, dealers, online salvage pools and online dealers. Three things can still catch a shop. Performing state safety inspections needs a station designation from the Superintendent of State Police, not from the motor vehicle department. Repairing two or more salvage vehicles in twelve months makes you a rebuilder, which is licensed. And the local BPOL license applies, at up to 36 cents per hundred dollars of gross receipts for repair services.

Contact

Jurisdiction
Virginia — statewide
Phone
(804) 371-9733

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.

  1. Code of Virginia section 13.1-1005 — limited liability company filing feesVirginia General Assembly · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
  2. Code of Virginia section 13.1-1062 — annual registration fee for limited liability companiesVirginia General Assembly · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
  3. Code of Virginia section 13.1-615.1 — corporate charter and entrance feesVirginia General Assembly · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
  4. Code of Virginia section 13.1-616 — corporation filing feesVirginia General Assembly · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
  5. Code of Virginia section 13.1-775.1 — annual registration fee for corporations, banded by authorised sharesVirginia General Assembly · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
  6. Code of Virginia section 46.2-1600 — definition of a rebuilder, which reaches a shop repairing two or more salvage vehicles in a yearVirginia General Assembly · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
  7. Code of Virginia section 58.1-3703 — counties, cities and towns may impose local license taxes and feesVirginia General Assembly · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
  8. Code of Virginia section 58.1-3706 — limitation on rate of license taxes and the gross-receipts thresholdsVirginia General Assembly · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
  9. Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation — the complete list of regulated professions and occupationsVirginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03

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