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Updated August 7, 2026. Quick answer: seven jurisdictions require no LLC annual report at all — Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio and South Carolina. Eight file biennially, not annually. The remaining 36 file every year, and the fee runs from $0 to $500, with Tennessee charging per member up to $3,000. The single most misleading thing you can do with this table is read the fee column on its own — Delaware files no report and still costs $400 a year, because the money is collected as a tax instead. Every row is sourced to the state’s own fee schedule or statute, with the date it was read.
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What the 51 jurisdictions actually require
- No periodic report: 7 jurisdictions — AL, AZ, DE, MO, NM, OH, SC.
- Biennial: 8 — AK, CA, DC, IA, IN, KS, NE, NY.
- Annual: 36.
The biennial states are the ones that catch people, because a calendar reminder set to “annual” produces a filing in the wrong year and a missed one in the right year. Iowa and Nebraska file in odd-numbered years specifically.
Why “no annual report” is not the same as “no annual cost”
This is the correction the table exists to make. Delaware LLCs file no annual report — and pay a $400 annual alternative-entity tax instead. A table with only a report-fee column shows Delaware at zero and ranks it among the cheapest states to maintain, which is the opposite of true.
The same trap runs the other way. Massachusetts charges $500 for the annual report itself — a statutory figure, and the one most often understated in published tables. Tennessee charges per member, $50 each above six members, with a $300 minimum and a $3,000 maximum, so a multi-member Tennessee LLC has an annual cost no flat column can show.
If you want the whole picture rather than the report line, the full cost dataset carries formation fees, franchise taxes and five-year totals, and it is explicit that exact totals and lower bounds must not be merged into one ranking.
On due dates — and why this table does not have a deadline column
We are not publishing one, and the reason is the honest one: the data does not support it. Auditing the underlying dataset at build time, a due-date basis is stated for 28 of the 51 jurisdictions, explicitly recorded as not verified for 6, and absent for 17. A deadline column filled in for 28 states and silently blank for the rest reads as though the blanks mean “no deadline”. They mean we did not read one.
What the sources do say, where we read it in full:
- Montana — the fee is waived if the report is filed on or before April 15, and $35 after it. The deadline is the price.
- New Hampshire — due between January 1 and April 1, with a $50 late fee after April 1.
- Nevada — the annual list is due on or before the last day of the anniversary month.
- South Dakota and Michigan — fixed calendar dates rather than anniversaries, and South Dakota’s changes on 1 January 2027.
Notice that the anniversary-versus-fixed-date distinction matters more than the date itself: an anniversary deadline is different for every company, so a filing date copied from a friend in the same state can be months wrong. Get your own from the Secretary of State’s record for your entity.
Scheduled changes — the changelog this table is born with
Three rows have dated changes already in statute, so a table published today is wrong on a known schedule unless it says so:
- Louisiana: $30 through 2026-09-30, $35 from 2026-10-01.
- Michigan: $25 through 30 September 2027, $15 thereafter — a rare scheduled step down, per MCL 450.5101(1)(g).
- South Dakota: the due-date basis changes on 1 January 2027.
Louisiana’s change lands in under two months. Any table showing a flat Louisiana or Michigan figure without its effective date is already carrying a scheduled error.
What happens if you miss it
The consequence class is consistent even though the mechanics differ: a late fee first, then loss of good standing, then administrative dissolution — the state ends the entity for you, without ending the obligations that attached to it. Walking away is the single most expensive way to end an LLC, and an administratively dissolved entity is the version of walking away that happens by accident — what the state actually does, step by step, when the reports stop. If the plan is to be done with the entity, the deliberate exit is cheaper: the dissolution filing, fee and tax-clearance requirement in all 51 jurisdictions.
If the entity is still trading, the practical protections are the ordinary ones: the separate account that makes the entity mean something, and the licensing layers the formation filing does not prompt.
The table
Fees are the state’s own published figures, as read on the date shown. Where a state charges different amounts for online and paper filing, or for domestic and foreign LLCs, both are given rather than one being chosen. Each row has its own anchor for direct citation.
| Jurisdiction | Report required? | Fee | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | No report | none for LLCs — no periodic report is filed with the Secretary of State | source 2026-08-06 |
| Alaska | Biennial | not recorded | source 2026-08-06 |
| Arizona | No report | none — Arizona LLCs file no annual or periodic report | source 2026-08-06 |
| Arkansas | Annual | no separate report fee — the annual filing IS the franchise tax report | source 2026-08-06 |
| California | Biennial | $20 Statement of Information | source 2026-08-06 |
| Colorado | Annual | $25 Periodic Report | source 2026-08-06 |
| Connecticut | Annual | $80 | source 2026-08-06 |
| Delaware | No report | none — Delaware LLCs file no annual report | source 2026-08-06 |
| District of Columbia | Biennial | biennial report required — fee not verified | source 2026-08-06 |
| Florida | Annual | $138.75 | source 2026-08-06 |
| Georgia | Annual | $60 annual registration ($50 fee + $10 service charge) | source 2026-09-06 |
| Hawaii | Annual | $15 (paper/fee-schedule rate); $12.50 filed online | source 2026-08-06 |
| Idaho | Annual | $0 — no fee | source 2026-08-06 |
| Illinois | Annual | $75 (+$50 per series) | source 2026-08-06 |
| Indiana | Biennial | $50 by paper, filed BIENNIALLY (online fee not verified) | source 2026-08-06 |
| Iowa | Biennial | $30 online / $45 by paper, filed BIENNIALLY in odd-numbered years | source 2026-08-06 |
| Kansas | Biennial | $90 online / $110 by paper, filed BIENNIALLY (Kansas now calls it an ‘information report’) | source 2026-08-06 |
| Kentucky | Annual | $15 | source 2026-08-06 |
| Louisiana | Annual | $30 through 2026-09-30; $35 effective 2026-10-01 | source 2026-08-06 |
| Maine | Annual | $85 (domestic LLC); $150 for a foreign LLC | source 2026-08-06 |
| Maryland | Annual | $300 | source 2026-08-06 |
| Massachusetts | Annual | $500 annually ($520 if filed electronically or by fax) | source 2026-08-06 |
| Michigan | Annual | $25 annual statement through September 30, 2027; $15 thereafter | source 2026-08-06 |
| Minnesota | Annual | $0 – annual renewal is free for domestic LLCs | source 2026-08-06 |
| Mississippi | Annual | $0 for domestic LLCs (foreign LLCs pay $250) | source 2026-08-06 |
| Missouri | No report | none – Missouri requires no periodic report from LLCs | source 2026-08-06 |
| Montana | Annual | $0 if filed on or before April 15 (fee shown as WAIVED); $35 if filed after April 15 | source 2026-08-06 |
| Nebraska | Biennial | $25 filed electronically / $30 in writing, BIENNIAL (odd-numbered years only) | source 2026-08-06 |
| Nevada | Annual | $150 annual list, due on or before the last day of the anniversary month – and the $200 business license renews with it, so the real recurring cost is $350/year | source 2026-08-06 |
| New Hampshire | Annual | $100 annually, due between January 1 and April 1; $50 additional late fee after April 1 | source 2026-08-06 |
| New Jersey | Annual | $75 annually | source 2026-08-06 |
| New Mexico | No report | none — New Mexico requires no periodic report from LLCs | source 2026-08-06 |
| New York | Biennial | $9 biennial statement | source 2026-08-06 |
| North Carolina | Annual | $200 | source 2026-08-06 |
| North Dakota | Annual | $50 | source 2026-08-06 |
| Ohio | No report | none — Ohio requires no annual or biennial report from LLCs | source 2026-08-06 |
| Oklahoma | Annual | $25 annual certificate | source 2026-08-06 |
| Oregon | Annual | $100 | source 2026-08-06 |
| Pennsylvania | Annual | $7 | source 2026-08-06 |
| Rhode Island | Annual | $50 | source 2026-08-06 |
| South Carolina | No report | none — no Secretary of State annual report for LLCs | source 2026-08-06 |
| South Dakota | Annual | $55 online; $70 paper | source 2026-08-06 |
| Tennessee | Annual | $50 per member; minimum $300, maximum $3,000 | source 2026-08-06 |
| Texas | Annual | $0 — no Secretary of State periodic report; an annual Public Information Report or Ownership Report is filed with the Comptroller at no fee | source 2026-08-06 |
| Utah | Annual | $18 | source 2026-08-06 |
| Vermont | Annual | $45 (domestic); $170 (foreign) | source 2026-08-06 |
| Virginia | Annual | $50 annual registration fee (no informational report for LLCs) | source 2026-08-06 |
| Washington | Annual | $70 | source 2026-08-06 |
| West Virginia | Annual | $25 | source 2026-08-06 |
| Wisconsin | Annual | $25 online; $40 paper | source 2026-08-06 |
| Wyoming | Annual | $60 minimum, or $0.0002 per dollar of assets located and employed in Wyoming, whichever is greater | source 2026-08-06 |
Cite this data
This table is ours: compiled from the states’ own fee schedules and statutes, with retrieval dates on every row and no formation-service site used as a source anywhere — which is the single most common reason published versions of this table are wrong, because they bundle service fees into the state fee. Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link.
Suggested citation: “LLC annual report requirements by state,” Clear Money Guide, 2026, clearmoneyguide.com/llc-annual-report-requirements-by-state/.
Limits, stated plainly. This covers the Secretary of State periodic report and its fee. It does not cover franchise or income taxes except where noted, it does not cover foreign-qualification obligations in other states, and it does not carry a complete due-date column, for the reason given above. Two rows had no verified fee amount. Sources for Alaska, DC and Georgia were partially unreachable when the dataset was built and those rows are correspondingly thinner. General information, not legal or tax advice.
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Missed one? The repair is state-specific. The consequences of a missed annual filing diverge sharply by state — five years to reinstate in Georgia, two in Wyoming, and no deadline stated in Oklahoma’s own reinstatement section. Each guide quotes its state’s statute: reinstating a Georgia LLC, reinstating an Oklahoma LLC, and reviving a Wyoming LLC.
Missed one? What happens next is state-specific, and the differences are extreme. Twelve more states now have their own guide, each quoting its own statute — the window runs from no deadline at all to a hard three years, and three of these states never dissolve you for a missed filing in the first place.
- Illinois — no deadline at all, but the state reserves your name for nobody: reinstating an Illinois LLC.
- Louisiana — three consecutive missed reports, then a hard three years or the entity is gone for good: reinstating a Louisiana LLC.
- New York — there is no reinstatement filing, because New York never dissolves an LLC for a missed statement: the New York non-answer.
- Ohio — two years to come back, but only one year of name protection: reinstating an Ohio LLC.
- Pennsylvania — the dissolution rule does not switch on until annual reports due in January 2027: reinstating a Pennsylvania LLC.
- Michigan — nothing is dissolved — but your name is available to anyone the day good standing lapses: restoring a Michigan LLC.
- North Carolina — the rules are not in the LLC act; they are borrowed from the corporation act: reinstating a North Carolina LLC.
- New Jersey — the inactive list, and the two-year mark that adds a tax clearance certificate: reinstating a New Jersey LLC.
- Virginia — cancellation with no notice owed to you, and five years before the Clerk loses the power to help: reinstating a Virginia LLC.
- Washington — the LLC act is a stub and several familiar citations were repealed in 2016: reinstating a Washington LLC.
- Arizona — six years to reinstate, six months to keep the name, and it is the Corporation Commission: reinstating an Arizona LLC.
- Colorado — you are probably not dissolved, and the filing you need is not a reinstatement: curing a delinquent Colorado LLC.
Missed one? What happens next is state-specific, and the differences are extreme. Thirty-three more states and the District of Columbia now have their own guide, each quoting its own statute. The window runs from one year to twenty, several of these jurisdictions never dissolve an LLC for a missed filing at all, and in a good number of them the deadline that actually bites is the one on the name rather than the one on the company.
- Alabama — there is no administrative dissolution in the LLC Act to reinstate from, and the document a tax-delinquent LLC actually needs comes from the Department of Revenue: the Alabama non-answer.
- Alaska — two years to come back, but the name is released after six months and the bill is double the delinquent amount, not simple back pay: reinstating an Alaska LLC.
- Arkansas — two delinquency systems run through one office, and the franchise-tax side can freeze filings even after the LLC-Act side is cured: reinstating an Arkansas LLC.
- Connecticut — no deadline at all — but the statute swaps the clock for a governance test, so scattered members are the real obstacle: reinstating a Connecticut LLC.
- Delaware — “void” is not the statute’s word; missing the $400 franchise tax costs good standing, and only three years of it cancels the certificate: reviving a Delaware LLC.
- District of Columbia — no deadline, and nothing caps what accrues — each missed biennial cycle adds its own report fee and late fee on top of the $300 reinstatement: reinstating a District of Columbia LLC.
- Hawaii — two full years must lapse before the state can even start, and for that entire window the name has no protection whatsoever: reinstating a Hawaii LLC.
- Idaho — the LLC Act carries no reinstatement rules of its own; the shared business-entity code it points to allows a genuinely generous ten years: reinstating an Idaho LLC.
- Indiana — five years to reinstate, but only 120 days of name protection — the two clocks are not close to each other: reinstating an Indiana LLC.
- Iowa — no deadline to come back, but the automatic right to the company’s own name only survives five years: reinstating an Iowa LLC.
- Kansas — no deadline, and back reports are capped at ten years — but Kansas reserves the name for nobody, so the form has a substitute-name line from the start: reinstating a Kansas LLC.
- Kentucky — the section most search results still cite was repealed in 2011; the rules now live in the general filing act, and one step there closes the door permanently: reinstating a Kentucky LLC.
- Maine — six years to reinstate, three years of name protection — a company can be fully entitled to return and find its name gone: reinstating a Maine LLC.
- Maryland — forfeiture is automatic and hearing-free, with a free 60-day self-cure; miss it and back taxes are owed “whether or not barred by limitations”: reinstating a Maryland LLC.
- Massachusetts — reinstatement is open “at any time,” but dissolution does not cancel the LLC — so the $500-a-year report fee keeps accruing while it sits: reinstating a Massachusetts LLC.
- Minnesota — there is no reinstatement application at all; you file the renewal you skipped plus $25, however many years have passed: reinstating a Minnesota LLC.
- Mississippi — no deadline to reinstate, but name protection ends the instant dissolution takes effect, so the only real clock is whoever files the name next: reinstating a Mississippi LLC.
- Missouri — Missouri LLCs file no annual report at all, and the statute runs two unrelated tracks — picking the wrong one is the trap: reinstating a Missouri LLC.
- Montana — the notice that starts the cure clock can be a newspaper ad in one county, and the five-year bar afterwards is absolute: reinstating a Montana LLC.
- Nebraska — a $30 form inside five years; past that, a flat $500 and a sworn statement that coming back is not a fraud on the public: reinstating a Nebraska LLC.
- Nevada — the annual list and the state business licence are two duties due the same day, and missing the licence alone is deemed to be missing the list: reinstating a Nevada LLC.
- New Hampshire — three years is not a deadline but a fee switch — $135 before, $500 and newspaper publication after, and both relate back in full: reinstating a New Hampshire LLC.
- New Mexico — there is no annual report to miss anywhere in the Act, so the only revocation trigger is the registered agent: reinstating a New Mexico LLC.
- North Dakota — exactly one year to reinstate administratively — miss it and the only route back is a lawsuit in Burleigh County: reinstating a North Dakota LLC.
- Oregon — administrative dissolution does not end the company’s existence, so the name is never released; the five-year window is the thing to watch: reinstating an Oregon LLC.
- Rhode Island — a twenty-year window, paid for with an uncapped $50-per-year penalty and a tax certificate from a second agency: reinstating a Rhode Island LLC.
- South Carolina — a hard two-year cutoff for LLCs — while the corporation section next door has no deadline at all, which is what most search results describe: reinstating a South Carolina LLC.
- South Dakota — no deadline, but the application cannot even be processed without a tax certificate from a second authority: reinstating a South Dakota LLC.
- Tennessee — roughly four months from notice to dissolution at the front end, and almost no deadline at the back — except a one-year rule for expired duration: reinstating a Tennessee LLC.
- Utah — no deadline since the 2024 amendment, but the company’s own name is only guaranteed for five years afterwards: reinstating a Utah LLC.
- Vermont — termination reads as automatic on the text, reinstatement is just as automatic — and both the report fee and the reinstatement fee are owed for every lapsed year: reinstating a Vermont LLC.
- West Virginia — an ordinary two-year window that the Secretary of State cannot close alone — it needs a certificate from the State Tax Commissioner: reinstating a West Virginia LLC.
- Wisconsin — recodified in 2023, with no deadline to reinstate, but the exclusive right to the name ends on the dissolution date itself: reinstating a Wisconsin LLC.
26 new corporation-dissolution guides, added September 3, 2026, each read from the state’s own statute and Secretary of State filing instructions this session. If you are closing the corporation, most states stop requiring further annual reports once the dissolution filing is accepted; see each guide for the state’s own rule.
24 new corporation-reinstatement guides, added September 4, 2026, each read from the state’s own statute and Secretary of State filing instructions this session. If you are reinstating the corporation, most states expect any missed annual reports to be brought current as part of the filing; see each guide for the state’s own rule.
25 more corporation-dissolution guides, added September 4, 2026, each read from the state’s own statute and Secretary of State filing instructions this session, closing this family to all 51 jurisdictions. If you are closing the corporation, most states stop requiring further annual reports once the dissolution filing is accepted; see each guide for the state’s own rule.
25 new corporation-reinstatement guides, added September 4, 2026, each read from the state’s own statute and Secretary of State filing instructions this session. If you are reinstating the corporation, most states expect any missed annual reports to be brought current as part of the filing; see each guide for the state’s own rule.
26 new state-specific annual-report guides, added September 4, 2026, each read from the state’s own Secretary of State site or statute this session. The due date, late penalty, administrative-dissolution trigger and filing portal this table does not carry; tranche a of 2 (Alabama through Missouri), the remaining 25 states close the family.
25 new state-specific annual-report guides, added September 5, 2026, each read from the state’s own Secretary of State site or statute this session. The due date, late penalty, administrative-dissolution trigger and filing portal this table does not carry; tranche b of 2 (Montana through Wyoming), CLOSING the family to 51/51 states alongside tranche a (Alabama through Missouri).
1 more corporation-reinstatement guide, added September 6, 2026 to repair a dropped state, read from the state’s own Secretary of State materials this session. If you are reinstating the corporation, Indiana expects any missed Business Entity Reports to be brought current as part of the filing.