Coverage · PR
Form your American company in Puerto Rico.
Same desk, same prices, Puerto Rico’s own machinery. Filings here run through the Department of State — Registry of Corporations, and the state calls its agent a registered agent. What follows is Puerto Rico’s actual formation landscape.
The Puerto Rico facts
Puerto Rico filings run through the Department of State's Registry of Corporations. The system will feel familiar to founders from civil-law countries, and filings may be made in Spanish or English.
Your charter is filed with the Department of State — Registry of Corporations. The registered agent you appoint must be reachable at a physical Puerto Rico address during business hours — for founders abroad, that appointment is the whole reason a desk like this one exists. Under Sethhost, the registered agent of record is CorpNet, Incorporated, our disclosed wholesale partner, appointed at filing and named in your service agreement.
Keeping the company alive in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico corporations file an annual report with the Department of State, due April 15. Puerto Rico LLCs maintain good standing through the Department's annual fee rather than a report. Either way, the obligation is annual and the agent of record is confirmed against it.
Puerto Rico is not a state, and its tax system is not the mainland’s. Puerto Rico runs its own tax code, administered by its Treasury Department (Hacienda) through its SURI platform, separately from the IRS and from every state system described elsewhere on this site. A Puerto Rico entity’s US federal tax posture differs fundamentally from a state LLC’s, and Puerto Rico-source income is generally taxed under Puerto Rico’s own rules. Treat a Puerto Rico formation as a distinct tax project — with advice from a preparer who works in the Puerto Rico system — not as a state formation with a different flag.
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 Puerto Rico
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 Puerto Rico
How much does Sethhost charge in Puerto Rico?
The same as everywhere: Launch $499 one-time and Hosted $79 per month. Puerto Rico’s own LLC filing fee is $250 — separate, charged at cost, and itemized for your state at checkout before your filing is placed.
What does Puerto Rico call its registered agent?
The registered agent — and the filing office is the Department of State — Registry of Corporations. State terminology is not pedantry: the wrong term on a form is how filings get rejected.
Can I form in Puerto Rico 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.