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The Arizona Corporation Commission Corporations Division is a ministerial or filing agency. Corporations Division staff cannot prepare documents for you or tell you what to write on them. Corporations Division staff cannot answer your legal or tax questions. You should consult with an appropriate professional such as an attorney or accountant for legal and tax advice.

Do your homework:

Read the FAQs on this website. The FAQs will answer many of your questions about entity type, entity names, and terminology. Another good source of information about small businesses is the Arizona Commerce Authority.

Read the suggested Ten Steps to Starting a Business in Arizona.

We have contact information for other state agencies and the I.R.S. that you might need for your business – click here.

Do you want to reserve the entity name?

Name reservations are not required, but if you need time to prepare the paperwork to form a corporation or LLC, and you want to “hold” the proposed name so no one else can take it, then you may want to obtain a name reservation. You can check name availability, read the naming requirements, and reserve the name here.

Prepare and submit the right documents:

Our forms are easy to complete and have separate, detailed Instructions. Read the Instructions to the document you are submitting. Usually, “Attachment” forms are used for adding more persons than the main form has space for, but with LLCs, at least one attachment form may be required. Read carefully and submit the appropriate attachment form with your LLC documents. Below is a guide listing the documents that must be submitted to the A.C.C. in order to create, change, or amend an Arizona corporation or LLC. The forms are accessible from our forms index.

Form a for-profit (business) corporation

Form a nonprofit corporation

Form an LLC (limited liability company)

Make a change

Amend corporation or LLC articles

Dissolve a corporation

Terminate an LLC

Foreign corporations or LLCs – click here to read the FAQs for foreign entities.

To form an Arizona for-profit (business) corporation, submit all of the following to the Arizona Corporation Commission:

·      Cover Sheet; and

·      Articles of Incorporation (for-profit), together with any attachment forms; and

·      Statutory Agent Acceptance form; and

·      Certificate of Disclosure, together with any attachment forms.

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 To form an Arizona nonprofit corporation (tax-exempt or not), submit all of the following to the Arizona Corporation Commission:

·      Cover Sheet; and

·      Articles of Incorporation (nonprofit), together with any attachment forms; and

·      Statutory Agent Acceptance form; and

·      Certificate of Disclosure, together with any attachment forms.

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To form an Arizona limited liability company (LLC), submit all of the following to the Arizona Corporation Commission:

·      Cover Sheet; and

·      Articles of Organization, together with EITHER a Manager Structure Attachment OR a Member Structure Attachment, plus any other attachment forms; and

·      Statutory Agent Acceptance form.

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To change a statutory agent name or address or a known place of business address, or to appoint a different statutory agent, submit all of the following to the Arizona Corporation Commission:

·      Cover Sheet; and

·      Statement of Change for your entity type – use corporation forms for corporations and use LLC forms for LLCs; and

·      Statutory Agent Acceptance form, if a new or different statutory agent is being appointed.

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To amend Articles of Incorporation of an Arizona corporation or Articles of Organization of an LLC, submit all of the following to the Arizona Corporation Commission:

          ·      Cover Sheet; and

·      Articles of Amendment for your entity type – use corporation forms for corporations and use LLC forms for LLCs; and

·      Any attachments; and

·      Statutory Agent Acceptance form, if a new or different statutory agent is being appointed.

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To dissolve a corporation, submit all of the following to the Arizona Corporation Commission:

·      Cover Sheet; and

·      Articles of Dissolution, together with any attachments.

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To terminate a limited liability company, submit all of the following to the Arizona Corporation Commission:

          ·      Cover Sheet; and

 ·      Articles of Termination. 

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