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Doing business in Colorado from another state

If your LLC does business in Colorado as Colorado defines it, you register with the Colorado Secretary of State, Business Program for $100.

Step 1: put these questions to Colorado’s law

  1. An employee or contractor works from the state. Ask whether the statute counts work done by people located in the state, and whether employees and independent contractors are treated alike.
  2. You sell to customers there but have no one on the ground. Ask whether the statute treats sales from outside the state differently from activity inside it.
  3. The LLC owns or leases property there. Ask whether owning or leasing real estate is listed as an activity that does, or does not, count.
  4. You open an office, shop or warehouse. Ask whether a fixed place of business is named in the statute. Settle the answer before you sign a lease.
  5. You hold meetings or keep a bank account there. Ask whether the statute lists these ancillary activities, and whether they count by themselves.

The law, as listed in the state’s own sources: Colorado Revised Statutes 2024, Title 7.

Step 2: if the answer is yes

Form
Statement of Foreign Entity Authority
Fee
$100
Paper from your home state
None for an LLC
Agent
A registered agent in Colorado

Best 3 Foreign Registration Services in Colorado (2026)

Step 3: if you would rather not file it yourself.

#ServiceService feeColorado feeAgent
1Mainstay Filing$199$100Year one included, then $149/yr
2CO Registered Agent.org$199$100Year one included, then $99/yr
3Colorado Registered Agent.co$199$100Year one included, then $99/yr

Service prices read from each provider’s Colorado page on October 28, 2026. The state fee is the official figure below and is paid to the Colorado Secretary of State, Business Program.

Colorado questions

When does an LLC from another state have to register in Colorado?

When its activity in Colorado meets Colorado’s own definition of doing business. We do not paraphrase it; read it in the law linked below.

What does registering in Colorado cost?

$100 to the Colorado Secretary of State, Business Program.

What is required after registering?

Periodic report (Colorado Secretary of State), $25 (due: once a year, by the end of the second month after your report month), and a registered agent in Colorado.

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