7 items, in order: articles of organization (llc) and the annual report, assumed business name registration (dba), employer identification number (ein), business identification number (combined payroll tax registration); corporate activity tax, city business license or business license tax and zoning approval and certificate of occupancy, and 1 more.
How to open a business in Oregon
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 Oregon? 7, in the order to get them
These are the steps every business in Oregon 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 report
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Set up the business0 of 3
File online through the Oregon Business Registry. The articles name a registered agent with an Oregon street address. The Division mails a renewal notice about 45 days before the anniversary; a missed report puts the LLC in inactive status and then dissolves it.
- Fee
- Premium only
- Renewal
- Premium only
- Official page
- sos.oregon.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
Corporation Division business registry fee schedule and Oregon Business Registry pages; Corporation Division assumed business name pages and fee schedule (ORS 648); IRS EIN page; Department of Revenue withholding and payroll tax pages; Corporate Activity Tax pages (ORS 317A); Portland Revenue Division business tax pages; Multnomah County Business Income Tax; city ordinances; Building Codes Division pages; city and county development codes; Employment Department current tax and contribution rates (2026); Paid Leave Oregon employer pages; Department of Revenue statewide transit tax page; Child Support Program new hire reporting; ORS 656.017. Fees are as published by each agency on the date checked; cities add their own.