7 items, in order: articles of organization (llc) and the annual renewal, certificate of assumed name (dba), employer identification number (ein), minnesota tax id number: sales and use tax account, withholding tax, city business license, where the city requires one and zoning approval and certificate of occupancy, and 1 more.
How to open a business in Minnesota
7 licenses, permits and registrations, in the order to get them, each with the agency, the fee and the official page.
What licenses do you need to open a business in Minnesota? 7, in the order to get them
These are the steps every business in Minnesota takes. A license specific to your kind of business comes from the agency that regulates it; if one of the twenty named businesses is close to yours, its page lists those too.
Every row checked against its agency’s page; the latest on Oct 21, 2026.
Step 1 of 4Set up the business. Now: Articles of organization (LLC) and the annual renewal
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File online through the Secretary of State’s business filings service. The articles name a registered office with a Minnesota street address. The annual renewal costs nothing but missing it dissolves the LLC at the end of the year, and a reinstatement fee applies to bring it back.
- Fee
- Premium only
- Renewal
- Premium only
- Official page
- sos.mn.gov
Checked Oct 21, 2026
Register for taxOpens after step 1
Approve the spaceOpens after step 2
Before the first hireOpens after step 3
Then pick the place
- The free location checkWho lives and works around an address, the businesses already there and the traffic on its road, from public records.
- The full reportWhether the rules allow a business at that address, the rent it supports, what has opened and closed nearby, and the questions to settle before signing.
Have an address in mind?
Check the address freeNo account. The business check reads public records at the address itself.
Sources and dates
Secretary of State articles of organization form and fee notes (Minn. Stat. 322C.0201 and 5.14 expedited service); Secretary of State certificate of assumed name form (Minn. Stat. 333.01 to 333.06); IRS EIN page; Department of Revenue Minnesota tax ID and sales and use tax registration pages; Minnesota eLicense directory of state licenses; city ordinances (Minneapolis Licenses and Consumer Services, 612-673-2080); Department of Labor and Industry state building code pages; city ordinances; Minnesota Unemployment Insurance tax rate page (2026 taxable wage base); Minnesota Paid Leave premium rate page; Department of Labor and Industry workers’ compensation pages (Minn. Stat. 176.021 and 176.181). Fees are as published by each agency on the date checked; cities add their own.