LLC State of Incorporation

[Alex Yakubovich]

Hello. I need to open an LLC (Corp2Corp contact is coming), but I'm not sure in what state to do it. Currently I am located in TX but in 6 months I will relocate to WA.

What option is better:

1) Open LLC in WA ($200 fee) and register a foreign LLC in TX ($750 fee). Also there will be annual fees in WA

2) Open LLC in TX ($300 fee) and register a foreign LLC in WA ($200 fee) when I move there

3) Open LLC in TX ($300 fee) and domesticate it in WA ($200 fee) when I move there. I'm not sure how much I need to spend on it. Probably, at least, I will need to pay for a new registered agent ($150)

I'm not sure how difficult it is to do domestication in comparison with the registration of a foreign LLC

WA has $60 annual fees, and TX has $0 annual fees (for LLCs with less than $1.23 million in revenue, I would probably never reach this number anyway)