Secretary of State filing fees, state by state.

Because each state sets and publishes its own schedule for the filings its registry handles. There is no national list and no common formula behind them, which is why the same document can sit in a very different place on two schedules. It is also why comparing states on one line is misleading: the sections do not move together, and a state can look one way in formation and another way entirely in compliance.

Both appear on it, listed separately. A state can treat the two entity types alike in one section and differently in the next, and the recurring section is where they diverge most often: some states run the same periodic filing for both, some run different cycles, and in some states one type files a report while the other meets a tax instead. Read the lines for your own entity type.

In most states, yes, though the interval is a local decision. Some registries want a periodic report annually, some every two years. In some states the recurring obligation is not a report at all but a tax administered by another office. The compliance section on your state page is the one to read carefully, because it is the only section that repeats for as long as the entity exists.

It is the filing that registers an entity formed in one state so it can operate in another. The entity is not re-formed; it is recognized by the second state and added to that state's register, with its own line on the schedule and its own ongoing obligations once it is there. Closing that registration down again is a separate filing, which is why foreign qualification and wind-up sit together.

Anything the registry issues to you rather than accepts from you. These are not filings that change the entity; they are records produced from what the register already holds. They usually come up because someone outside the business asked for proof of standing or a copy of what was filed, and that request has its own line on the schedule rather than being folded into the filing itself.

No. A registry schedule covers what that registry handles, which is entity filings. Licensing sits with other bodies, sales tax registration sits with the state's revenue authority, employer registrations sit elsewhere again, and counties and cities run their own requirements on top. The schedule is the map of one office, not the map of everything a business owes, and the state pages point at the rest.