$404 is not high though. Even $600 in total (after filing fees, taxes) is not high. Just compare it to non-anonymous LLCs, with or without registered agents, a

$404 is not high though. Even $600 in total (after filing fees, taxes) is not high. Just compare it to non-anonymous LLCs, with or without registered agents, and definitely without law firms or CPAs. You are still looking at least at $100. Registered agents charge an extra $100, and the ones that advertise $25 are lying. You won't get out of California, Delaware or New York that low at all. New York forces you to publish the existence of your New York LLC in two newspapers in your county, just to make SURE its not anonymous (in the year 1915). So if you live in New York City you are looking at spending $1,600. California is around $800. So you are accurate that you can do this yourself, at the same prices I pointed out, but there are several gotchas.