Louisiana Corporation

Incorporating Louisiana Corporations

What is a Louisiana corporation?

Louisiana corporations are separate legal entities established by the shareholders. The shareholders elect to have an incorporator make the action to incorporate a Louisiana corporation to create a separate entity from them personally.

How much do Louisiana corporations cost?

A Louisiana corporation will cost $60 to file the articles of incorporation

How to form Louisiana corporations:

You have to file the articles of incorporation and an initial report with the LA Secretary of State. It will take about a week to process your LA corporation articles of incorporation. You can mail, fax, or walk in the LA articles of incorporation form or you can file online. Louisiana Secretary of State has a couple of expedited processing options. If you pay a $30 fee they will process in 24 hours. If you file in person and pay a $50 fee, the SOS will process while you wait.

If you need a federal tax ID number, that can be obtained online immediately with the IRS.

How are Louisiana corporations regulated?

Louisiana Corporations are governed by Louisiana Code - Title 12 Corporations and Associations.

Louisiana corporations require:

Articles of Incorporation:

• An incorporating Louisiana ending such as Inc, corporation, or incorporated
• A general or specific corporation purpose
• The duration may be limited or perpetual
• The amount of Louisiana corporation shares you would like to authorize
• The class of the corporation shares
• The par value of the shares
• The name, address, and signature of the Louisiana incorporator(s)
• Louisiana requires the articles of incorporation be notarized

LA Corporation Initial Report:

• The name of the corporation
• The location of the corporations registered office in Louisiana
• The name and address of the Louisiana registered agent
• The initial director(s) name and address
• The LA corporation incorporator signature
• The initial report must be signed by the registered agent and notarized

You can do this yourself and use our free Louisiana corporate tools we provide in your online account, or you can pay our $100 incorporating Louisiana service fee and we'll do it for you.  When you pay us to form your Louisiana corporation, your money actually goes back into the local community.  Why?  Because we actually run a corporation in Louisiana, just like you.

When we incorporate a Louisiana corporation, our incorporating Louisiana service includes:

• Drafting custom LA corporation articles of incorporation and corporation initial report.
• The incorporator initial resolutions.
• Louisiana corporate bylaws.
• The Louisiana corporation state filing fees.
• Registered agent service.
• Our fees are: $100 incorporating Louisiana service and $125 Louisiana corporate agent service.

Total incorporating Louisiana package for only $285 to form a Louisiana corporation, and that includes the state filing fees.

• Louisiana Registered Agent
• Change LA Agent
• Louisiana Incorporation
• Louisiana LLC
• Louisiana Corporation
• Louisiana Foreign LLC
• Louisiana Foreign Corp
• Louisiana Annual Report
• Louisiana Taxes
• Louisiana Certificate of Good Standing
• Louisiana Certified Copy
• Louisiana Apostille
• Record Incorporation in Louisiana
• Revive LA Corp
• Revive LA LLC
• LA LLC Amendment
• LA Corp Amendment
• LA Agent Resignation
• Withdraw Foreign Entity
• Dissolve LA LLC
• Dissolve LA Corp

• Do It Yourself Information
• Form Louisiana LLC
• Starting a Business in Louisiana