Register a company in Georgia

Yes. The Articles are filed online, and the signer can be an organiser, member, manager or attorney-in-fact using a full legal name. The registered agent we provide gives the company the Georgia street address the law requires. The EIN comes from the IRS by phone, fax or mail for founders with no SSN or ITIN. Banking is the one step that depends on your file: fintech platforms take applications remotely, and a traditional bank is a route where the business has a US footprint.

Formation starts from $2,400 all-in, including the Georgia filing fee ($110), the registered agent for the first year, the EIN and the operating agreement. With a fintech or bank account set up, from $4,400. After that the state charges $60 a year for the annual registration, due between 1 January and 1 April. Expedite fees, and for a corporation the newspaper notice, are quoted separately.

The Corporations Division generally processes online filings within 7 to 10 business days, longer in late December, January and at quarter-end. Expediting cuts that to two business days ($120), the same day ($275, if received by noon) or one hour ($1,200). The Articles can also carry a delayed effective date, up to 90 days after filing. Then comes the EIN. By fax the IRS generally replies within 4 business days; by mail it takes about 4 weeks.

An LLC suits most owner-run businesses: pass-through by default, $60 a year and no net worth tax. A C-Corp fits when investors will buy shares. It pays 21% federal tax plus Georgia's 5.19% (2025 rate), files its first annual registration within 90 days naming three principal officers, runs the newspaper notice and files a net worth tax return every year. An S corporation is off the table with a non-resident alien shareholder, so that election does not help a foreign founder.

A C-Corp pays 21% federal tax and 5.19% Georgia corporate income tax, the rate stated for tax years from 2025. The Department of Revenue says later years may change, so we confirm it for your filing year. An LLC is pass-through by default. In a multi-member LLC with foreign members, the LLC withholds federal tax on their share of effectively connected income at 37%, or 21% for corporate members. Dividends to non-residents carry 30% withholding unless a treaty reduces it. Selling taxable goods in Georgia means 4% state sales tax plus local rates, up to 9% combined.

It taxes income. Florida and Tennessee have no personal income tax; Georgia charges individuals a flat 4.99% in 2026 and corporations 5.19%, the rate stated for tax years from 2025. A corporation also carries extra paperwork: the newspaper notice, an initial registration within 90 days and a net worth tax return each year, even at $0. And for foreign founders, Georgia's tax registration asks for an SSN or other valid taxpayer number of a principal officer, owner, member or manager, so we plan for it before your first taxable sale or hire.

It does if one foreign person owns the whole LLC. For this rule a foreign-owned single-member LLC is treated as a corporation: every year it files a pro forma Form 1120 with Form 5472, reporting transactions with its owner, including money put in and taken out. It cannot be filed electronically - fax or mail only - and it is due with Form 1120, normally by the 15th day of the 4th month after year-end. Not filing costs $25,000, plus $25,000 for each further 30 days once 90 days have passed after an IRS notice.

Nobody can promise an account before the bank has seen your file, and we will not. We scope the route with you: Mercury or Relay-class fintech platforms take applications online, and a traditional bank is a route where the business has a US footprint. We prepare the application file around the Articles, the EIN and the operating agreement, then set up ACH, wires and Stripe once the account is open.

Not for a company formed in Georgia. FinCEN's final rule, effective 14 August 2026, made permanent the exemption for US companies first introduced in March 2025, so a Georgia LLC or corporation files no BOI report, even when all its owners live outside the US. The duty remains for companies formed abroad that register to do business in a US state. Georgia's Corporations Division links to an information page on the federal rule; we know of no state-level ownership filing.

With Georgia: the $60 annual registration between 1 January and 1 April. You may prepay up to three years. Late filing costs $25, and a missed registration can lead to administrative dissolution. With the IRS: a foreign-owned single-member LLC files a pro forma Form 1120 with Form 5472, and a multi-member LLC files Form 1065. A corporation files Form 1120 and its Georgia corporate return, both by the 15th day of the 4th month after year-end. Accounting and 5472 filing are available from $800 a year.