Annual report filing
Every state sets a recurring deadline for this filing. Miss it and late fees, penalties, and eventually administrative dissolution follow. We take the deadline off your plate: the report is prepared from the state’s own record, you approve it, we file it, and the stamped copy lands in your inbox. One total price per filing, with whatever your state charges passed through at cost and never marked up. The same price every year, no renewal jump.
What an annual report is
An annual report is not a financial statement. It is a short confirmation of the facts the state already holds about your company: its name, its addresses, its registered agent, and who manages it. Filing it, and paying the state’s fee, is what keeps the company in good standing.
Miss it, and the consequences arrive in stages: a late penalty, then loss of good standing, and eventually administrative dissolution: the state closes your company on paper. Banks, lenders, and buyers check good standing; a lapsed company fails that check at the worst possible moment.
The filing itself usually takes minutes. The expensive part is not knowing the date.
Who must file one
- Almost every registered company. LLCs and corporations in most states file a report every year; a few states run a two-year cycle.
- In every state you’re registered in. A company formed in one state and registered to do business in others files in each of them, on each state’s own schedule.
- Even companies with no activity. The report confirms the record, not the revenue. “We didn’t trade this year” does not pause the deadline.
- The exceptions are real but few. Some states replace the report with a flat tax: Delaware LLCs pay $400 a year and file no report at all. Your state page states which rule applies.
What it costs
One total price per filing, with whatever your state charges passed through at cost. Your own state’s total is shown before you pay.
Annual report filing
Florida LLC example
Total fee
$248.74for the year
Florida’s own filing fee is included in this example at cost. Your own state’s total is shown before you pay.
See our pricing terms.
When it’s due: two kinds of deadline
States use either a fixed date for everyone or an anniversary rule tied to your formation date. Four verified examples:
| State | Due | State fee | If you’re late |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida (LLC) | May 1, every year | $138.75 | $400.00 penalty, then dissolution in late September |
| Wyoming | First day of your formation month | $60.00 minimum | Loss of good standing, then dissolution |
| Georgia | April 1 (window opens January 1) | $60.00 | $25.00 late fee, then dissolution |
| Delaware (LLC) | June 1 (flat annual tax, no report) | $400.00 | $200.00 penalty + 1.5% monthly interest |
Verified against each state’s own filing office, August 2026. Your state’s current numbers, with their verification date, are on your state page.
What happens if you’re late
If you’re late right now: it is almost always fixable, and the fix costs less today than next month. Here is the sequence states follow.
The penalty
A late fee is added on top of the normal state fee. Florida’s is $400.00, applied the day after the deadline. Some states charge less; few charge nothing.
Loss of good standing
The state marks the company delinquent. Certificates of good standing stop issuing, which surfaces at loan applications, closings, and license renewals.
Administrative dissolution
Keep not filing and the state closes the company. Reinstatement exists in most states, but it means back reports, back fees, and paperwork. We file all of that too.
The process, in three steps
We build it from the record
Company name and state are enough. We pull the current record from the state’s register and prefill the report. Every prefilled field is marked “from state records”.
You check and approve
Correct anything that changed: an address, a manager. You see the full price, broken down, before anything is charged. Nothing is filed until you approve it.
We file and confirm
A person reviews the filing, we submit it, track the state’s acceptance (usually 1–2 business days), and the stamped copy lands in your inbox.
Annual report questions
What do I need to give you to file my annual report?
Usually just your email and your approval. The report itself is built from the state's public record of your company; you check it, correct anything that changed, and approve. A few states ask for one extra fact. Florida, for example, asks for your EIN, and we ask for it only when the state's form requires it.
I'm already late. Can you still file?
Yes. Most states accept late reports; you pay the state's late penalty with the filing and good standing is restored on acceptance. If the state has already administratively dissolved the company, we file the back reports and the reinstatement together, with every state fee itemized before you pay.
Do you file in every state?
We file annual reports in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. A few states have no annual report for LLCs: Delaware, for instance, charges a flat annual tax instead. In those states we file whatever the state actually requires.
What happens if the state rejects the filing?
You get everything back, the state's charge included. Rejections are rare because a person reviews every filing before it goes out, but when one happens you are not charged for it.
Ready to get it filed?
Start a filing in about five minutes, or pick a compliance package and stop tracking deadlines altogether.