Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: Georgia requires a annual report; Annual Registration due between January 1 and April 1 each year (first one due Jan 1 to Apr 1 of the year following formation).
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Whether Georgia requires one, and how often
Georgia requires LLCs to file an annual report every year. $60 annual registration: a $50 fee plus a $10 service charge.
When it’s due
Annual Registration due between January 1 and April 1 each year (first one due Jan 1 to Apr 1 of the year following formation). (Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 590-7-22-.02/.03)
What it costs
$60.00 a year: a $50.00 annual-registration fee plus a $10.00 service charge. The fee itself is statutory: O.C.G.A. § 14-11-1101(a)(14) sets “Annual registration (foreign or domestic)” at 50.00. The service charge sits on top of it. The Secretary of State’s Corporations Division Filing Fees schedule (Rev. 8/2025, effective September 6, 2025) shows that $10.00 service charge in both its online-filing column and its paper-filing column, totalling $60.00 either way; the same schedule prints $0 online against $10.00 paper on other filings, such as articles of dissolution, so the identical columns here are deliberate rather than a formatting artefact. The state’s consumer page at georgia.gov instead describes “an additional $10 service charge for submitting your registration by mail”. Those two official pages disagree about whether an online filer pays the service charge, so budget $60.00 and read the total on the payment screen before you confirm.
What happens if you miss it
$25.00 late filing penalty if the registration is not filed by April 1. The amount is statutory: O.C.G.A. § 14-11-1101(a)(15) sets “Penalty for late filing of annual registration” at 25.00, and the Secretary of State’s fee schedule prints the same $25.00 in both its online and paper columns. Georgia’s own consumer guidance puts the deadline plainly: your envelope “must be postmarked by April 1 of the current year to avoid a $25 late fee”.
What eventually happens if it stays unfiled: O.C.G.A. § 14-11-603(b)(1)(A) lets the Secretary of State begin an administrative dissolution proceeding when “The limited liability company does not deliver its annual registration to the Secretary of State, together with all required fees and penalties, within 60 days after it is due”. Under § 14-11-603(b)(2) the Secretary must first mail written notice, and the company then has 60 days after that notice to correct each ground before a certificate of dissolution is signed; § 14-11-603(b)(4) allows a dissolved company to apply for reinstatement “within five years after the effective date of such dissolution”. Georgia’s own filing guidance states the consequence plainly: an LLC that does not file “might be administratively dissolved or revoked by the SOS”.
Where to file
File at https://ecorp.sos.ga.gov/Account. Georgia Corporations Division e-filing system; also https://ecorp.sos.ga.gov/OneClickAR for no-login filing.
What this page does not answer
State income tax, franchise tax and federal (IRS) filing obligations are separate from this report and follow their own deadlines and rules. This page does not source those. We have the state periodic-report answer at primary and nothing else.
The annual/biennial report fee above is a recurring cost of keeping the LLC active, separate from what it cost to form. See what an LLC costs in Georgia for the full cost picture.
Sources
Every citation on this page is the state’s own Secretary of State site or official statute text. No formation service, no registered-agent marketing page and no aggregator is cited anywhere in this cluster as a source of law.
- Due date: https://rules.sos.ga.gov/gac/590-7-22
- Late penalty: https://georgia.gov/renew-llc
- Filing portal: https://ecorp.sos.ga.gov/Account
- Fees and late penalty: Georgia Secretary of State, Corporations Division Filing Fees (Rev. 8/2025, effective September 6, 2025), read September 6, 2026: sos.ga.gov filing fee schedule (PDF)
Related: Georgia’s registered agent requirements, including who can serve and what happens if you don’t have one.