California Business Name Search, Secretary of State, and LLC Costs
California Articles of Organization Website:
https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/bizfile/file-online
Name Availability:
https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/business-entities/name-availability/
Physical Address:
Secretary of State
Business Programs Division
1500 11th Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Mailing Address:
Secretary of State
Document Filing Support
PO Box 944228
Sacramento, CA 94244-2280
Telephone: (916) 657-5448
LLC Documents: https://bpd.cdn.sos.ca.gov/llc/forms/llc-1.pdf
Instructions appear at the top and the forms follow.
Filing Fee: $70. There is an additional $15 special handling fee for documents delivered in person to the Sacramento office. All LLCs pay an annual franchise tax of $800.00 and an annual fee based on total income.
Filing Instructions: Fill out forms online and submit online. You may also fill out forms, print, and the mail forms or deliver them in person to the Sacramento office.
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To return to the list of links to the information for each state: https://www.legalees.com/state-information/