Pricing, Government Fees and Refunds

How our pricing is structured

The IRS does not charge a fee for an EIN or for an ITIN. If anyone tells you otherwise, that charge is theirs, not the government’s.

What a formation package includes

• Name availability check in your chosen state
• Preparation and filing of the Articles of Organization or Certificate of Formation
• Registered agent service in the formation state for the first year
• EIN application prepared and submitted to the IRS
• An operating agreement you can actually use to open a bank account
• Your BOI report filed with FinCEN where the company is required to report
• Your filed documents delivered digitally in the client portal

What is not included

Said plainly, so it is not a surprise on the invoice:

• Ongoing state fees. Annual reports and franchise taxes recur every year for as long as the company exists.
• Certified copies and apostilles. Charged by the state per document, usually needed for foreign bank or payment-processor onboarding.
• Federal or state tax returns unless you buy them. Formation and tax filing are separate services.
• Bank account approval. We prepare your documents and show you which providers onboard non-residents. The bank decides, not us.
• Legal or investment advice. We are not a law firm and not a CPA firm.

Processing times, and who controls them

Our part of the work takes one to two business days once we have your documents. Everything after that belongs to an agency:

These are ranges we have seen, not promises. We will not quote you a guaranteed government turnaround, because nobody outside the agency can honour one.

Refunds

• Before we file: full refund of our service fee, no questions asked, minus any government fee already paid to an agency.
• After we file: government fees cannot be recovered. Our service fee is refundable only where we made the error.
• If we made a mistake — wrong state, wrong name, a form we prepared incorrectly — we correct it and pay the re-filing fee ourselves.
• If an agency rejects an application for a reason within our control, we re-submit at no charge. If it is rejected because of information you gave us, we will tell you exactly which item caused it and what the re-filing costs.

To request a refund, email [email protected] with your order reference. We respond within two business days.

Why we do not publish one fixed total per state

Because it would be wrong within months. State filing fees change, expedite options come and go, and several states set an annual fee that depends on your asset value rather than a flat figure. We would rather quote you in writing against today’s published fee and link you to the state’s own page than print a number here that quietly rots. Every state page on this site links directly to the agency that sets its fees.