Updated September 5, 2026. Quick answer: Tennessee requires a annual report; Could not independently verify via a direct fetch this session. TN Code Annotated is not hosted in full text on any free official TN .gov site (the codified text is published under a proprietary Lexis/Michie arrangement); sos.tn.gov itself has no page with the due-date text (its ‘annual reports’ and ‘how to file annual report – LLC’ pages both immediately redirect to the TNBEAR filing portal, tnbear.tn.gov, which was unreachable from this environment, connection timed out/refused at the network level, not an access block). Justia, FindLaw, and Casetext mirrors of T.C.A. § 48-249-1017 were all blocked (403/410) even when the request identified itself as an ordinary browser, and a public reading proxy returned an anonymous-access block. Multiple independent secondary sources (not fetched as primary-source-verified) consistently describe the rule as: annual report due on or before the first day of the fourth month following the close of the LLC’s fiscal year (i.e., April 1 for a Dec. 31 fiscal year end), this is very likely correct given consistent secondary corroboration and TN’s own site-search index surfacing the same statute number, but it does not meet this task’s fetched-at-200 bar.
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Whether Tennessee requires one, and how often
Tennessee requires LLCs to file an annual report every year. $50 per member; minimum $300, maximum $3,000.
When it’s due
Could not independently verify via a direct fetch this session. TN Code Annotated is not hosted in full text on any free official TN .gov site (the codified text is published under a proprietary Lexis/Michie arrangement); sos.tn.gov itself has no page with the due-date text (its ‘annual reports’ and ‘how to file annual report – LLC’ pages both immediately redirect to the TNBEAR filing portal, tnbear.tn.gov, which was unreachable from this environment, connection timed out/refused at the network level, not an access block). Justia, FindLaw, and Casetext mirrors of T.C.A. § 48-249-1017 were all blocked (403/410) even when the request identified itself as an ordinary browser, and a public reading proxy returned an anonymous-access block. Multiple independent secondary sources (not fetched as primary-source-verified) consistently describe the rule as: annual report due on or before the first day of the fourth month following the close of the LLC’s fiscal year (i.e., April 1 for a Dec. 31 fiscal year end), this is very likely correct given consistent secondary corroboration and TN’s own site-search index surfacing the same statute number, but it does not meet this task’s fetched-at-200 bar. (T.C.A. § 48-249-1017 (Annual report for secretary of state), cited by secondary sources only, not independently fetched)
What it costs
$50 per member; minimum $300, maximum $3,000 (source, read 2026-08-06).
What happens if you miss it
No dollar late-fee figure found on any TN .gov page actually fetched. sos.tn.gov/businesses/faqs (fetched, HTTP 200) describes the base annual report fee ($20 for corporations, $300 minimum up to $3,000 for LLCs based on member count) and common rejection reasons, but does not state a separate late-filing penalty amount. Could not reach the codified statute text to check for a distinct late-filing penalty provision.
What eventually happens if it stays unfiled: Confirmed directly from a fetched TN Secretary of State FAQ page: administrative dissolution is triggered by failure to file the annual report (among other grounds), and results in inactive status. The exact statute section number and the length of any grace/cure period before dissolution actually occurs were not independently confirmed (could not reach the codified text). (sos.tn.gov FAQ (statute section not independently confirmed; likely within T.C.A. Title 48, Ch. 249, Part 10)) “What is an Administrative Dissolution? An Administrative dissolution occurs for the following reasons: Failure to file an annual report Being without a registered agent A foreign entity fails to maintain its assumed name due to a name conflict Returned payment by a financial institution … A business entity that has failed to file its annual report on a timely basis may be administratively dissolved and placed in inactive status.”
Where to file
File at https://tnbear.tn.gov/Ecommerce/AnnualReportInstr.aspx. TNBEAR (Tennessee Business Entity/Annual Report system), TN Secretary of State’s online business-entity filing portal. Confirmed via sos.tn.gov’s own server-side redirect (fetched twice, from both /business-services/annual-reports and /products/business-services/how-file-annual-report—llc, both 301-redirecting to this exact URL). Could not load the tnbear.tn.gov page’s own content directly, the host was unreachable (connection timeout/refused) from this research environment.
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 Tennessee 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.
- State fee schedule / hub table source: https://sos.tn.gov/businesses/faqs
- Filing portal: https://sos.tn.gov/business-services/annual-reports
Related: Tennessee’s registered agent requirements, including who can serve and what happens if you don’t have one.