Business license to travel through New Jersey

I wanted to thank @wichris for his help and @Ubu for the link he supplied.

I wanted to update the thread. The state of New Jersey stinks.

You have to file as a foreign LLC in New Jersey. You have to pay them $125 to do that. Then you have to have a certificate of good standing from your home state, so for me in Pennsylvania that's another $40. Then you have to have a registered agent for the state of New Jersey which I think is going to cost me $125 a year. Then you have to pay taxes to New Jersey.

I know that in Pennsylvania you have to have puc authority, but I hope there are no other states like this craziness in New Jersey.

I'm planning on staying mainly in the Northeast, so if anyone knows of any other craziness in States from, say, Virginia up to Massachusetts, please let me know.

 

I will have to check back with them next week about the registered agent.

That woman I spoke with may not know what she was talking about.

I told her they would not let me file the papers online because there was another business that has a similar name as mine in New Jersey. Not the exact same name, just similar.

So I said to her kind of kidding that I feel like I'm forming a separate LLC in New Jersey and she said that's exactly what I'm doing. I spoke with the company that did my LLC in Pennsylvania and they said you are absolutely not forming another LLC in New Jersey.

If you had to have a registered agent in New Jersey you would be paying that fee every year.

Hopefully I'll get someone else when I call back next week.

 

Well I wanted to update this thread.

I have had conflicting information about this from the state of New Jersey and it was very confusing.

Now I just spoke with someone there and here is what he told me.

He said that I need to be an authorized foreign business. He said that I need to have a registered agent with a New Jersey address. I have to get a certificate of good standing from Pennsylvania and fill out the forms and pay the filing fee.

He also said that there are no taxes collected if I am a single member LLC. I can't remember all the he said but he said there are three types of LLCs in the state of New Jersey, but if you are a single member LLC you do not pay tax to the state of New Jersey.

I asked him multiple times and he said once everything is set up and everything is registered, I will pay $75 per year to the state of New Jersey and that is it. And of course I will have to pay for the registered agent.

@wichris

Does that sound correct to you?

 

Dang, I didn't think to get his name.