Minnesota Business Search

What the Minnesota business search shows

The Minnesota Business Filings Online finds a company by business name or file number. It finds a company by business name or file number. Use it to confirm a company exists and is active, not to get its federal number.

Minnesota businesses report state taxes under a seven-digit Minnesota Tax ID Number. The Department of Revenue treats it as separate from the federal employer ID number.

The Minnesota file number

The Minnesota Secretary of State gives every company a file number when it is formed. It identifies the company in state records, and it is not the company’s EIN.

Check if a Minnesota LLC is active

Search the company in the Minnesota business search and open its record. The status tells you whether the state counts the company as active. Words such as dissolved, revoked, forfeited, inactive or delinquent mean it is not in good standing, usually because an annual filing or fee was missed, and the company may need to be reinstated before it can do business there.

To prove a company is in good standing to a bank, a lender or another state, order a Certificate of Good Standing from the Minnesota Secretary of State. Our LLC status check reads the status from public data where a state publishes it.

Good to know in Minnesota

• Minnesota's annual renewal is due December 31 for every LLC, regardless of the month it was formed, and it is filed under the Secretary of State's file number. An LLC that misses it is administratively terminated without further notice, and it can reinstate retroactively by filing the current year's renewal with a reinstatement fee.
• The Minnesota Tax ID Number is a separate state number, not a copy of the EIN. The Department of Revenue says a business does not need one to open a bank account, and that a business required to get a new federal EIN must also apply for a new Minnesota Tax ID.
• Minnesota's corporate farm law requires an LLC to be certified by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture before it farms or holds an interest in agricultural land, and the Secretary of State's annual renewal asks every LLC whether it owns, leases or has a financial interest in farmable land.

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More for Minnesota companies

• Minnesota EIN lookup: where a company’s federal number can be found.
• EIN for a Minnesota business: what Minnesota asks for after the EIN.
• LLC name check and LLC status check.
• Business search in other states.