Colorado LLC periodic report: $25, keyed to your anniversary month — and a 400-day clock on your business name

Last reviewed July 29, 2026 · Colorado Secretary of State sources linked below

Colorado's Periodic Report is one of the cheapest annual filings in the country — $25, filed online with the Secretary of State. The catch isn't cost, it's the calendar: the deadline is keyed to your entity's report month, so every Colorado entity you form carries a different due date, and there is no single "Colorado day" to remember. Miss yours and the state walks you down a defined staircase — Noncompliant, then Delinquent — and starts a clock most owners have never heard of: 400 days after delinquency, your entity is literally renamed with the word "delinquent" in it, and your original name is released for anyone else to take.

The one-line version: File the $25 Periodic Report online during your report month or the two months after — the Secretary of State's own example: if your Periodic Report Month is January, the report is due March 31. Miss it → Noncompliant (late fee applies), with a late report due within two more months. Miss that → Delinquent (C.R.S. § 7-90-901), and the 400-day name clock starts.

The obligation at a glance

Item	Rule
Who files	Every reporting entity on file with the Colorado Secretary of State — LLCs, corporations, and foreign entities registered in Colorado (C.R.S. § 7-90-501)
When	Keyed to your Periodic Report Month (generally your formation/registration anniversary month — confirm yours on your entity's page in the SOS Business Database). Due by the end of the second month after it begins: report month January → due March 31
Fee	$25 (raised from $10 on July 1, 2024 — the first change since 2006)
Where	Online only, through the Secretary of State's filing system
What it updates	Entity name/jurisdiction (read-only), principal office address, and registered agent name and address
If missed	Status → Noncompliant + late fee; a late report is due within 2 more months; then status → Delinquent

The window is genuinely forgiving — three months from the first day of your report month, and the SOS offers free email and text reminders tied to your entity record. The failure mode isn't tightness; it's that anniversary deadlines don't repeat annually on a date you associate with "taxes" or "January renewals," so entity #2 and #3 quietly drift.

The staircase: Good Standing → Noncompliant → Delinquent

Noncompliant: the moment your due date passes unfiled. A late fee is added (the SOS has long charged $50 — confirm the current amount on the official fee schedule), and you get roughly two more months to file the late report.
Delinquent: miss the late window and the entity's status changes to Delinquent under C.R.S. § 7-90-901. A delinquent entity is no longer in good standing — expect problems with lenders, licenses, and certificates of good standing.
Also watch your registered agent: delinquency isn't only about the report — an entity that fails to appoint a new registered agent after its agent resigns goes Delinquent too.

The 400-day name clock

Colorado's most under-appreciated consequence: after an entity goes delinquent, its name is protected for only 400 days. On day 401, the Secretary of State changes the entity's name to include the word "delinquent" and the date of delinquency — and the original name becomes available for another entity to register. A brand you spent years building can be claimed by a stranger because a $25 filing slipped twice. (If that happens, getting the old name back isn't part of curing delinquency — you'd be filing amendments and hoping the name is still free.)

Getting back to Good Standing

Noncompliant? File the late Periodic Report online — the entity returns to Good Standing immediately upon completion.
Delinquent? File a Statement Curing Delinquency — also effective immediately upon online filing.
Delinquent 5+ years? Since House Bill 24-1137 (C.R.S. § 7-90-904(1)(c)(III)), the cure gets heavier: a Statement Curing Delinquency submitted under penalty of perjury, an affidavit of authority, and a government-issued photo ID, all reviewed by the SOS — and if the filing is rejected, the fees are not refunded.

Anniversary deadlines are the ones that drift. EntityMinder puts each Colorado entity's report window on one calendar with every other state you file in — and reminds you before Noncompliant, not 400 days into Delinquent.

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Related guides

Look up any state's LLC deadline — the 50-state annual-report + franchise-tax lookup.
Wyoming LLC deadlines — the neighboring anniversary state: due the first day of your anniversary month, $60 for most small LLCs.
Nevada LLC deadlines — the expensive anniversary state: two stacked filings totaling $350/yr, penalties that stack too.
Missed your LLC annual report? — what falling out of good standing actually costs, state by state.

Official sources

Colorado Secretary of State — Delinquency FAQ (the January → March 31 due-date example, the Noncompliant → Delinquent progression, the 400-day name rule, and the 5-year cure requirements under HB 24-1137)
Colorado Secretary of State — Periodic Report Filing Fee to Increase July 1 (2024) (the $25 fee, C.R.S. 7-90-501, and what the report contains)
Colorado Secretary of State — Periodic Report filing instructions (what the form updates, registered-agent requirements, and the SOS email/text notification offer)
Colorado Secretary of State — Fee schedule (confirm current filing and late fees)