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Your business's legal shape

Sole owner, LLC or corporation: a choice you make with three questions, a handful of forms in the right order, and a few dates a year that keep it working.

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How long until the first deadline?

Your LLC is filed in California. How many days do you have to file its first Statement of Information, the report of who runs it and where?

300 days
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  • Limited Liability Companies - California (Domestic): forms and fees (Articles of Organization, Form LLC-1) · California Secretary of State, 2026

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  • 90 daysca.gov ·2026 · California: an LLC's first Statement of Information is due within this many days of its registration, then every two years, at the time of writing.
  • $20ca.gov ·2026 · California's fee to file an LLC's Statement of Information online, at the time of writing.
  • $70ca.gov ·2026 · California's fee to file Articles of Organization (Form LLC-1) online, at the time of writing.
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14 min

Your business's legal shape

Sole owner, LLC or corporation: a choice you make with three questions, a handful of forms in the right order, and a few dates a year that keep it working.

Ticket 01 · The guess

How long until the first deadline?

Your LLC is filed in California. How many days do you have to file its first Statement of Information, the report of who runs it and where?

300 days
0 days365 days
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  • Limited Liability Companies - California (Domestic): forms and fees (Articles of Organization, Form LLC-1) · California Secretary of State, 2026

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  • 90 daysca.gov ·2026 · California: an LLC's first Statement of Information is due within this many days of its registration, then every two years, at the time of writing.
  • $20ca.gov ·2026 · California's fee to file an LLC's Statement of Information online, at the time of writing.
  • $70ca.gov ·2026 · California's fee to file Articles of Organization (Form LLC-1) online, at the time of writing.
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  2. Start your own
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  • ·Next: Money set-up: an account, simple books, and tax set aside