Alabama Corporate Filing Tips

The State of Alabama requires original filings and documents unless you email the filing to the state. You can email it to Rebecca.morris@sos.alabama.gov, or you can also fax the file now at 334-240-3138. You just need to include your credit card for payments.

Alabama is the only state that requires a completely pointless Certificate of Name Reservation before you file a foreign corporation. Wasting both your time and the State of Alabama’s for no real purpose but to milk you out of another fee and give you another level of red tape to hack your way through. Stupid isn’t it? It’s amazing how backwards we are here… Foreign LLCs do not require a name reservation, making a foreign LLC filing the easiest for you to file.

If you are changing your registered agent on your initial tax return, you will need our tax ID number. We actually provide you the tax return pre-filled out with our tax ID number on it inside your online account.

You can expedite a filing with the Alabama Secretary of State for $100.

Alabama requires you to obtain a certified copy of your articles of organization or articles of incorporation from your home state if you’re registering an out-of-state entity. You will most often need to order this through your state’s Secretary of State.