Coverage · MD
Form your American company in Maryland.
Same desk, same prices, Maryland’s own machinery. Filings here run through the State Department of Assessments and Taxation (SDAT) — Charter Division, and the state calls its agent a resident agent. What follows is Maryland’s actual formation landscape.
The Maryland facts
Maryland calls the role the resident agent, and charters and agent filings run through SDAT rather than a Secretary of State.
Your charter is filed with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation (SDAT) — Charter Division. The resident agent you appoint must be reachable at a physical Maryland address during business hours — for founders abroad, that appointment is the whole reason a desk like this one exists. Under Sethhost, the resident agent of record is CorpNet, Incorporated, our disclosed wholesale partner, appointed at filing and named in your service agreement.
Keeping the company alive in Maryland
Maryland's annual report rides with the personal property return filed with SDAT — the filing that keeps both the entity and its resident agent current.
Inside Hosted, those dates sit on your compliance calendar from the day you form — set from your filing record, not a national average — and annual report filing service is part of the subscription where your state uses one. Reminders are best efforts and you remain responsible for your deadlines; that sentence is in the agreement, and it is on this page too.
How Sethhost serves Maryland
Formation is prepared at your direction and confirmed by you before filing (Docket 01). The EIN runs through the IRS workflow for founders with or without a Social Security number (Docket 03). Official mail received by the agent is retrieved by our desk each business day and mirrored into your portal under the mail protocol — best efforts, in writing, with no timeframe promised upstream. A five-page website and a US number complete the visible half of the company (Docket 06).
Questions on Maryland
How much does Sethhost charge in Maryland?
The same as everywhere: Launch $499 one-time and Hosted $79 per month. Maryland’s own LLC filing fee is $100 — separate, charged at cost, and itemized for your state at checkout before your filing is placed.
What does Maryland call its registered agent?
The resident agent — and the filing office is the State Department of Assessments and Taxation (SDAT) — Charter Division. State terminology is not pedantry: the wrong term on a form is how filings get rejected.
Can I form in Maryland from outside the US?
Yes — that is the standard case here. You choose the state; we never recommend one, because that is legal advice. Compare states on the coverage board and in the guides, then direct us.