Freedom. Drive. Room for ideas. Texas is the state for people who want to run their own business and stay agile while they do it. Your Texas LLC is a lean structure that grows with you, from your first job in Austin to clients in Dallas and Houston.
Our team in Austin looks after you personally, in English, from formation through ongoing support. You focus on your clients.
No trip to the US needed · 3 to 5 business days · Support 24/7
plus franchise tax: $0 up to $2.65 million in annual revenue
Start a Texas LLCTexas in numbers
Why TexasSources: Fortune 500 (2026); U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (as of September 2026); U.S. Census Bureau (estimate as of July 1, 2025); Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.
The package
In your first year you get every service in the annual package. From the second year on, everything continues under the annual package. Your LLC is in good order from day one and stays that way.
We file your formation online with the Texas Secretary of State and prepare the document set for your path. We pass the state fee on with no markup.
We submit your Mercury application with you as soon as your documents and EIN are in. You also get euro account details with your own IBAN through Wise and, if you come to Austin, a personal introduction at a traditional US bank.
We apply for your Employer Identification Number (EIN) with the IRS. And we file the mandatory BE-13 report with the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the filing many founders have never heard of.
Texas requires every LLC to have a Registered Agent. That's us. We scan mail from authorities and courts and email it to you. If a letter has a deadline, we tell you what to do.
Our Austin address goes on your letterhead, invoices and filings, along with a US phone number with call answering. On the formation and the Public Information Report we list our address, not your home address.
Members' meeting, resolutions and minutes, the membership register, filings with Texas and a calendar with every deadline. You sign, we handle the rest.
The six points in detailContract templates under US law for your LLC's day-to-day business. From your first client contract to your first investor.
You ask, we answer, as often as you like. The only exceptions are custom documents drafted by the attorneys on the firm's team, and bookkeeping.
Included every year
With your LLC you become a member of the New Horizons Club. Membership starts with your order and is included in the formation package and every annual package, on both paths.
With free consultations.
Two paths, clear prices
The answer determines which documents your LLC needs from day one. Everything else is the same on both paths: the formation, the Registered Agent, the accounts, the annual compliance and our support in English.
Your parent company is the member of your LLC. On top of the LLC's document set come the documents for your parent company.
plus franchise tax: $0 up to $2.65 million in annual revenue
Choose this pathOn your own or with co-founders. The LLC belongs to you directly.
plus franchise tax: $0 up to $2.65 million in annual revenue
Choose this pathFrom year two, Texas charges no fee for the Public Information Report. Franchise tax only applies above the revenue threshold. Bookkeeping is added only if you book it: from $250 a month, starting when you begin trading.
Not sure which path fits? Book a consultation or call our office: +1 512 647 1128. You can order directly on either path.
How it works
Everything runs remotely. The timings below reflect our experience, not guarantees.
Pick your path and extras on the order card. You see the total right away.
We file with the Secretary of State and prepare your document set.
Without a US Social Security number, we apply for the EIN by fax. The IRS quotes about four business days.
We file the mandatory report with the Bureau of Economic Analysis on time.
With your formation documents and IRS letter (CP575 or 147C), we submit the application together with you. Mercury decides after its own review.
According to Mercury, no visit to the US is required. You only travel to Austin if you want an introduction to a traditional US bank. That is optional.
Accounts and credit history
Credit for your company and for you. The strongest business cards also check your personal credit history, so we build both.
Annual compliance
A Texas LLC has obligations that come around every year. We take care of these six, from day one in the formation package and afterwards with the annual package.
We set the date and prepare the agenda and resolutions: acknowledging the annual financial statements, confirming the managers (if any are appointed) and ratifying the year's business. In writing or by video: we write the minutes and collect signatures electronically.
We keep your LLC's resolutions and minutes, the member list and the list of managers (if any are appointed). Digital and always up to date.
Every year by May 15, the franchise tax report goes to the Texas Comptroller along with the Public Information Report, even for a single-member LLC. Below $2.65 million in revenue (reports 2026 and 2027), the Public Information Report is enough, with no separate state fee. The first filing is usually due on May 15 of the following year.
We remain your Registered Agent in Texas. We scan your mail, email it to you and flag any deadlines. On request, we forward the originals by post.
Every deadline with Texas, the IRS and the Bureau of Economic Analysis is in your calendar, and we remind you in good time. The FinCEN report no longer applies to companies formed in the US since March 2025, confirmed by a final rule dated August 11, 2026. If it comes back, we handle it at no extra charge.
Unlimited support in English. Need a resolution for a new account, a contract or a loan? We prepare it, within the usual scope and at no extra charge. Custom documents drafted by the attorneys on the firm's team: $450 per matter.
Resolutions and minutes
When you want to work with a regulated supplier, take out a loan or sell your company, the first thing the other side asks for is your company's resolutions and minutes (the minute book). They show who owns the company, who runs it, who can sign and what was decided when.
If they are missing, they cannot be cleanly recreated after the fact. That is why we keep them from day one. When the moment comes, you just send a link.
BE-13
If a foreign person directly or indirectly holds at least ten percent of the voting rights, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis requires the BE-13 filing (15 CFR 801.7), even if it never contacts you. The deadline: 45 calendar days from formation.
We file it with every formation, as a short Claim for Exemption where total costs are up to $40 million. Above that, the full form applies, quoted individually.
Template library
Every template in English, from your first customer contract to your first investor. Your LLC's Operating Agreement, resolutions and minutes are already included in the package.
Once you've paid, sign in at mtbonnell.com/vorlagen with the email address you used for your order. No password needed: we send you a code by email. The templates are tailored to your LLC, with the LLC as the contracting party and members and managers built in. They don't replace advice on your specific case: where it really matters, one of the attorneys on the firm's team drafts the document.
Why Texas
Texas has more Fortune 500 headquarters than any other state, the largest economy after California and a franchise tax with a clear threshold.
Texas taxes companies on their margin: 0.75 percent, 0.375 percent in wholesale and retail, and 0.331 percent under the E-Z computation up to $20 million in total revenue. For the 2026 and 2027 reports, it is zero up to $2.65 million in annual revenue. Your company still files the Public Information Report every year.
Since 2019 it has prohibited a tax on individual income. In 2023 a ban on a wealth tax was added, and in 2025 a ban on a capital gains tax on individuals, families, estates and trusts. This applies to State of Texas taxes; US federal taxes and the taxes of your country of residence apply alongside them.
The Texas Secretary of State's formation fee. We pass it on with no markup and show it separately.
Why Texas is our home: Texas Proud and our Texas story.
Sources: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts; Texas Constitution, Art. 8; Texas Secretary of State. (2026)
State of formation
Delaware is the name everyone knows. Texas is where you do business. If you form in Delaware and do business in Texas, you also have to register in Texas (foreign qualification), usually as soon as you have an office or employees there.
| Comparison | Less hassle Texas direct Texas LLC | Delaware plus Texas Delaware LLC, registered in Texas |
|---|---|---|
| States | 1, Texas | 2, Delaware and Texas |
| Registered Agents | 1, in Texas | 2, one each in Delaware and Texas |
| Annual obligations | 1 set: the Texas Public Information Report, plus the franchise tax report above the revenue threshold | 2 sets: the Delaware annual tax by June 1, plus the Texas Public Information Report by May 15 |
| State fees | 1 set, to Texas | 2 sets, to Delaware (the LLC's annual tax) and to Texas ($750 for registration) |
If you do business in Texas for more than 90 days without registering, the Secretary of State can also charge a late fee equal to the registration fee for each calendar year or part of one.
Through us, registering in Texas costs $750 plus the state fee, and from the second year $650 per year for the Registered Agent and annual filing there, also plus state fees.
Extras
The packages cover everything every LLC needs. You can add these services in the order form, or later at the same prices.
In writing: a clean structure between the parent and its US subsidiary, or between you and your LLC. Coordinated with your accountant at home.
Full detailsIn writing: which route to the USA fits you and your team, prepared with the immigration attorney on the firm's team. Filing and government fees are separate.
Full detailsCertificate of Good Standing (in Texas: Certificate of Fact) and a notarized Certificate of Incumbency, both with apostille and a certified German translation.
Full detailsCredit for your company and for you. The strongest business cards also check your personal credit history, so we build both.
Full detailsIf your LLC has a single member based outside the US, it files Form 5472 with a pro forma Form 1120 cover sheet for every year with reportable transactions with that member; we handle this for $600. If it has several members, it files a partnership return (Form 1065) for $1,500; for that amount we first review your documents, and it is credited toward our fixed-price quote.
Questions
Our office in Austin answers around the clock, in English.
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