Form a New Mexico LLC from Indonesia: Complete 2026 Guide

New Mexico state fees are $50 to file ($50 online where available). The other line items are the same wherever you form: a registered agent at roughly $100-150 a year, a free EIN straight from the IRS, and a free business bank account at Mercury or Relay. What differs by state is the recurring cost, and for New Mexico that is $0 ever — New Mexico is one of the only states with no ongoing annual report or annual fee for LLCs. With EasyBrise Global Launch ($295 in year one, registered agent included; $149 a year to renew) the typical first year stays well under $500.

Start with the numbers. A New Mexico LLC costs $50 to file (or $50 online), and the recurring state cost is $0 ever — New Mexico is one of the only states with no ongoing annual report or annual fee for LLCs. State tax treatment: no tax on LLC income earned outside the state for non-resident owners. Privacy treatment: New Mexico does not publicly disclose member or manager names in its formation records. For a founder in Indonesia the practical reading is that New Mexico is the only one of the five with no annual filing at all, so the question to ask is whether that trait matches how you plan to run the business.

An Indonesia-based founder should lean toward New Mexico if minimizing ongoing paperwork is the top priority — no annual report, ever, is unique among these five states — and strict privacy matters more to you than name recognition. Weigh it against the other four states on cost, privacy and reporting now, since a later switch is a dissolve-and-reform exercise, not an amendment.

Indonesian developers, designers, agency owners and online sellers form US LLCs to invoice overseas clients in dollars and to hold a US business bank account. Indonesian tax residents are taxed on worldwide income, so the LLC does not move profit outside the Indonesian system. What matters most is the country's controlled-foreign-company rules for individuals, and a banking point that is unusual among the countries we cover: Indonesia appears on Mercury's prohibited-countries list.

Housekeeping for a new New Mexico LLC owned from Indonesia. Federal Beneficial Ownership Information reporting is not something you need to do: FinCEN's rule in force since August 14, 2026 permanently exempts all US-formed LLCs. What you do need: an Operating Agreement, a business bank account, payment-processor accounts if you will take cards, and two recurring dates, there is no New Mexico annual filing to calendar and the annual federal Form 5472 and pro forma 1120.

Mercury's rule is based on where the founder lives, not on nationality. An Indonesian citizen who lives in another country is judged on that country, and Mercury says such a person may still be eligible after review. Relay looks at citizenship or residency of the owners. If you split your time between countries, work out which country is your residence for each bank before applying, and keep proof of it.

Nothing about New Mexico formation requires you to be in the US. Your registered agent supplies the New Mexico address and receives official mail, the Articles of Organization go to the New Mexico Secretary of State, and the EIN comes from the IRS afterwards. Since an Indonesia resident has no SSN, Form SS-4 gets "Foreign" or "N/A" in the SSN line. The international phone line (267-941-1099) takes roughly 45-60 minutes and is the quickest route; fax and mail take 4-6 weeks.

Indonesia's controlled-foreign-company rule (Ministry of Finance Regulation PMK-93/2019) applies to Indonesian residents who hold at least 50% of the paid-up capital of a non-listed foreign company, which a sole LLC owner meets. When it applies, a deemed dividend arises in the fourth month after the end of the foreign company's fiscal year, whether or not any money was distributed. Since 2019 the rule has covered five kinds of passive income: dividends (other than from another CFC in the same chain), interest, related-party rent, royalties and certain capital gains. Active business income such as software, e-commerce or consulting is generally outside the calculation, whereas before 2019 all after-tax profit was captured. On the US side the LLC files Form 5472 and a pro forma Form 1120 every year, with a $25,000 minimum penalty for a missed or incomplete filing.

Indonesia's foreign-exchange system is reporting-based rather than quota-based: there is no hard dollar cap on personal investment transfers abroad. Banks may ask for the purpose of a transfer and report significant transactions to Bank Indonesia. Indonesia also takes part in the Common Reporting Standard, so foreign account information is shared automatically with its tax authority. Keep documents for the LLC's capital and for any money you bring back.

New Mexico means a $50 filing fee and no annual report, which suits an Indonesian owner who wants minimal US paperwork while sorting out the CFC classification and a bank that will accept them.

Over five years, the state-level cost of a New Mexico LLC is a $50 filing fee and nothing recurring, so $50 in total, before the registered agent. That makes New Mexico the cheapest of the five states on this measure. The same arithmetic across the five states runs from $50 to $2,110. For an Indonesian owner, the bigger variable is not this US state cost but whether the LLC's income is passive or active under Indonesia's CFC rules, and where the founder lives for Mercury.

As an Indonesian owner, your recurring dates look like this. State: New Mexico adds no state annual filing at all. Federal: Form 5472 with the pro forma Form 1120 is due on the return due date, April 15 for a calendar-year LLC, extendable with Form 7004. For the one-off EIN call, the IRS line (6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern) is open 5 p.m. to 10 a.m. Jakarta time in US daylight time (6 p.m. to 11 a.m. in US standard time). Put the state date and the federal date in your calendar when the EIN arrives, because a missed Form 5472 carries a $25,000 minimum penalty.

The line between passive and active income is where most Indonesian founders' analysis happens. Consulting fees, software subscriptions and product sales are active business income and are generally outside the deemed-dividend calculation. Interest, royalties, related-party rent and certain capital gains are passive and inside it. If your LLC mixes the two, keep the revenue lines separate so each can be classified.