7 items, in order: certificate of organization (llc) and the annual renewal, assumed name (dba) registration, employer identification number (ein), sales and use tax license, employer withholding account, city or county business license and zoning approval and certificate of occupancy, and 1 more.
How to open a business in Utah
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 Utah? 7, in the order to get them
These are the steps every business in Utah 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: Certificate of organization (LLC) and the annual renewal
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File online through the Division’s business registration portal. The certificate names a registered agent with a Utah street address. A missed renewal adds a $10 delinquency fee and the LLC expires; reinstating costs $18 for each missed year. Utah has no franchise tax on an LLC.
- Fee
- Premium only
- Renewal
- Premium only
- Official page
- commerce.utah.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
Division of Corporations fiscal year 2026 fee schedule (effective July 1, 2025); domestic LLC pages; Division of Corporations DBA application form; Utah Code 42-2-5; IRS EIN page; Tax Commission Publication 25 (sales and use tax general information); Taxpayer Access Point registration (form TC-69); Salt Lake City consolidated fee schedule and business licensing pages; Salt Lake County fiscal year 2026 fee schedule; Utah Code 10-1-203; Utah Uniform Building Standards Act (Utah Code Title 15A); city business license and building permit pages; Department of Workforce Services employer tax rate page (2026 taxable wage base and rate limits); new hire handbook and form 6; Utah Code 34A-2-201. Fees are as published by each agency on the date checked; cities add their own.