How to Move an LLC to Another State While Keeping Your EIN and Credit
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Moving an LLC to another state without losing your EIN, bank accounts, contracts, and credit history is possible through redomestication, a legal process that changes where your company is domiciled while keeping the business entity itself intact. Cummings & Cummings Law describes redomestication as a complex legal transaction impacting state and federal law, not a simple paperwork exercise, and the firm handles the process entirely online with attorney and CPA involvement.
What Exactly Is Redomestication?
Redomestication is the process of changing the state where your LLC is domiciled without dissolving and recreating the business. The entity retains its identity, meaning your EIN, existing contracts, banking relationships, and established credit remain in place and active throughout the transition. This differs from other approaches like foreign qualification (registering in a new state while keeping the original state as your home state) or dissolution and reformation, which would require new filings and potentially new tax identification numbers.
The legal work involves filing redomestication documents with both your current state and your new state, updating federal tax records, and ensuring all state and federal requirements are met. Because the company itself does not change, your business operations continue without interruption.
Why Keep Your EIN During a Move?
Your EIN is tied to your business entity, not to a specific state. When you redomesticate rather than dissolve and reform, the IRS recognizes the entity as continuous, so your tax identification number stays the same. This means your tax history, credit file, and banking relationships all remain uninterrupted. Losing your EIN would require new bank accounts, updated vendor contracts, reestablished business credit, and potential delays in operations.
Keeping your EIN also simplifies compliance. You do not need to notify creditors, update loan documents, or reapply for licenses in most cases, since the underlying business entity remains legally the same.
How Does the Cummings Redomestication Process Work?
Cummings & Cummings Law handles redomestication through a remote-first process. You provide the necessary business information and sign documents via DocuSign, and the firm's attorneys and CPAs prepare and file all required paperwork with the appropriate state agencies. The firm states the process takes place entirely online with email updates and no snail mail or waiting periods.
The firm describes the engagement as providing both legal and tax expertise together. Because redomestication affects both state corporate law and federal tax treatment, having an attorney and CPA work in tandem addresses both dimensions of the move. The firm also offers a free interactive tax savings calculator that lets you compare state tax obligations across all 50 states to illustrate potential tax savings based on your business income.
Who Should Consider Redomestication?
Redomestication suits business owners relocating to a new state who want to avoid the operational disruption of dissolving their current LLC and starting fresh. It is particularly valuable if your business has established bank accounts, active contracts, or existing credit that would be costly or time-consuming to rebuild. Owners seeking to optimize state tax liability by moving to a lower-tax state also benefit from understanding how redomestication preserves tax continuity while changing domicile.
Cummings & Cummings Law notes that if the redomestication process does not fit a company's situation, the firm will tell you directly. The firm works with business owners, executives, and developers across company sizes from early-stage startups to larger organizations, and integrates tax planning, risk management, and financial analysis into the engagement.