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What is FACTS?

FACTS stands for Fees, Acts, Codes, Taxes & Statutes. It is a company-neutral repository of United States business-filing facts - what each of the 54 filing jurisdictions charges, requires, cites and closes for - where every asserted value carries five things: the value, its citation, the official source URL, the date it was retrieved, and a confidence grade. incFACTS (this site) is the public window onto that repository.

The system and the site

FACTS is the system: the datasets, the statute corpus they are verifiedReview gateThis site's publication rule. Records climb unreviewed, then provisionally reviewed, then verified; public pages cite only verified records.Read the full entry → against, the monitoring that watches 193 official sources for changes, the review pipeline, and the export contracts that feed downstream consumers. incFACTS is the brand this site publishes under. Every page here is generated from the repository by a build script; no number on any page was typed into a web page by hand, which is why a correction made once in the record propagates to every page, ranking and feed that touches it.

The rules the record lives by

• Official sources only. A fee or rule is cited to the state agency, the legislature, or the official code publisher. Aggregators and blogs may help us find a citation; they are never its authority.
• Unclear beats guess. When the official record is silent, blocked or contradictory, the cell says so and stays open. There are open cells on this site right now, each with a reason.
• Every datum is dated. "Verified" means verified on a stated date against a stated source, with a scheduled recheck interval. Stale is visible.
• A review gate decides what is citable. Records climb from unreviewed to provisionally reviewed to verified. Public pages cite only records that cleared final review; below-gate records appear as values marked pending, or are withheld with the count stated.
• Company-neutral. FACTS records what the state charges and requires. It does not sell filings, does not rank providers, and no vendor influences the record.

What the record covers

8 dataset families today: statutory filing fees (decomposed into the statutory feeStatutory feeThe fee the statute or the agency's adopted fee schedule sets for a filing - the state's own number, before e-pay surcharges, bundled components, expedites, or anyone's service markup.Read the full entry →, e-pay surchargesE-pay surchargeA percentage or flat amount the state adds for paying online or by card - commonly 2 to 5 percent, sometimes a flat portal fee.Read the full entry → and the effective remittanceEffective remittanceWhat actually leaves the bank to the state for a filing: the statutory fee plus any e-pay surcharge and any components the state bundles into the transaction.Read the full entry →), registered-agent statutes with verified excerpts, filing-office closure calendars, DBA/fictitious-name regimes with county-level fees, good-standing status decoding, per-entity-type governance rules, certificate costs, and the verified official-URL registry behind every jurisdiction page.

Ways to consume it

• These pages - free, citation-first reference for people.
• The MCP server and data feeds - live programmatic access for AI agents and integrations (subscription).
• Corrections in, not just facts out - the error-reporting channel files straight into the maintenance queue; a wrong number reported today is a wave of corrected pages tomorrow.

Who it serves

Everyone. A founder checking one state's formation feeFormationCreating the entity: articles of organization (LLC), articles or certificate of incorporation (corporation), certificate of limited partnership (LP).Read the full entry → gets the same vetted record as anyone else, free, no account - these pages exist for exactly that. The subscription tier is for organizations that consume this information at scale: incorporation services, registered agentRegistered agentThe person or company an entity must continuously maintain in a state to receive service of process and official mail.Read the full entry → providers, law firms and accounting practices, and compliance platforms - most of whom maintain internal teams just to track what the 54 jurisdictions charge and require. The pages replace the binder; the API and MCP replace the team.

It is also built to be cited. Journalists, newsrooms, policy researchers and academics get what a source is supposed to give them: a dated, sourced, independently checkable record - every figure carrying its citation, its official source, and the date it was verified - free to quote and link with attribution.

Why it exists

Search for any state's filing fee and the results are companies selling formation services, not the agency that sets the fee. The numbers offered are frequently stale, rounded, bundled with service charges, or simply wrong - and none of them cite anything. FACTS exists because a number without a source is not a fact, and incFACTS exists so the sourced numbers are the ones people actually find.