LLC Annual Report Deadlines by State (2026) — every state, one page

Fixed-date states (e.g. Florida May 1, Maryland April 15, North Carolina April 15, Pennsylvania September 30) give every LLC the same due date regardless of when it was formed. Easy to remember for one entity — but if you hold entities in several fixed-date states, the dates scatter across the calendar. Florida is the fixed-date state that punishes a miss hardest: a flat $400 late fee that can't be waived, then a September dissolution cliff — the full timeline is in the Florida LLC annual report guide. Georgia uses a January 1 – April 1 window with a small $60 total cost (the old "$50 online" figure is stale since a September 2025 fee change) and a rare 3-year prepay option — details in the Georgia LLC annual registration guide. North Carolina is the quiet trap in this group: its report shares the April 15 date with federal Tax Day (so owners assume the CPA filed it), the LLC fee is $200 — eight times what a NC corporation pays — and there's no flat late fee, just a 60-day path to administrative dissolution — details in the North Carolina LLC annual report guide. Michigan is the cheap-and-silent one: a $25 Annual Statement due February 15 with no late fee for a standard LLC — but two unfiled years and the company quietly loses good standing and its name becomes available to anyone (PLLCs pay $75 and do get a $50 penalty) — details in the Michigan LLC annual statement guide. Maryland is the expensive one that hides behind Tax Day: its Form 1 goes to SDAT (not a Secretary of State) on April 15 for $300 — but a free online extension to June 15 exists if requested by April 15, and skipping never dodges the fee, because reviving a forfeited entity means filing every back report at $300 apiece — details in the Maryland LLC annual report guide. And Minnesota is the free one with the harshest cliff: the Annual Renewal costs $0 and can be filed any day through December 31 — but let the year end without one and the Secretary of State statutorily dissolves the entity, with reinstatement retroactive only "as long as the name is still available" — details in the Minnesota LLC annual renewal guide. Arkansas shares Florida's May 1 date but swaps the report for a flat $150 franchise tax with no extension available — and a meter that doesn't stop: delinquent charters are proclaimed revoked in a January 31 batch, and the $150/year keeps accruing even after revocation until the entity is formally dissolved — details in the Arkansas LLC franchise tax guide. And Kentucky is the group's cheapest seat and its most orphaned date: $15 inside a six-month January 1 – June 30 window — ten weeks after Tax Day, half a year from year-end, in no season a calendar habit watches — with no late fee, then a 60-day notice clock to administrative dissolution; reinstatement works any time with relation-back but demands $100 + every missed report + a Department of Revenue tax-clearance certificate, with no name protection while you're gone — details in the Kentucky LLC annual report guide. Connecticut shares Georgia's exact January 1 – April 1 window at $80 (quadrupled from $20 in 2020 — stale guides abound), charges no late fee — and since 2025 sends its only dissolution warning by email alone, three months before dissolution by forfeiture; the way back in is unusually forgiving (any time, no tax clearance) but the name isn't held — details in the Connecticut LLC annual report guide. And Montana is the group's free seat with an expiration date: the Secretary of State has waived the fee for on-time filers every year 2024–2027 (a year-by-year waiver, not a statutory $0), late filers pay ~$35, 140 days past April 15 is statutory dissolution grounds, and reinstatement hits a hard 5-year wall plus a Department of Revenue certificate (single-member LLCs usually exempt) — details in the Montana LLC annual report guide. And Mississippi may be the free club’s most genuine member — the domestic annual report is $0, online-only, due April 15 — but it pairs that with a trigger most states don’t have: a state-tax delinquency reported by the Department of Revenue is its own dissolution ground, separate from the report — the 60+60-day staircase and the any-time reinstatement are in the Mississippi LLC annual report guide. North Dakota owns the group's strangest date and sharpest cliff: November 15, alone between extension season and the holidays — then six months past due the LLC ceases to exist by operation of law (no proceeding, notice mailed after the fact), with administrative reinstatement open for only one year before the way back runs through a Burleigh County courtroom — details in the North Dakota LLC annual report guide. And West Virginia just became the only state that rewards an on-time streak: effective July 1, 2026, five consecutive timely $25 reports earn the right to file biennially — while a miss costs a $50 late fee, a possible business-registration suspension at 30 days, and a dissolution ground at 60 — details in the West Virginia LLC annual report guide. Maine is the group's most forgiving arithmetic: an $85 report inside a January 1 – June 1 window, a flat $50 late penalty, and then the rarest line in any fee statute — 31 M.R.S. § 1680(17) caps the annual-report portion of a reinstatement at $600 "regardless of the number of delinquent reports or the period of delinquency," so six years of neglect costs the same as two. Maine is also one of the only states with an official off switch: a dormant LLC can file a $40 Certificate of Excuse and stop filing altogether (§ 1665(5)). The catch is a timing gap — your name is held for three years, but you have six to reinstate — details in the Maine LLC annual report guide. And New Hampshire inverts the usual order of operations: it shares Connecticut's and Georgia's January 1 – April 1 window at $100, requires the report to be current as of January 1 rather than the filing date (the exact opposite of neighbouring Maine), and won't even have grounds to dissolve you until you've missed two consecutive years by 60+ days — but when it acts there is no cure period at all: the notice IS the dissolution, mailed with the reinstatement form. Day 120 from that mailing is the date with teeth, because your name is released and a Department of Revenue certificate becomes mandatory on the very same day — details in the New Hampshire LLC annual report guide. And Rhode Island looks like the group's cheapest seat and is not: the $50 report inside a February 1 – May 1 window (with a real mailbox rule — deposited in the mail before May 1 counts) carries only a $25-per-year late penalty, but it sits alongside a separate annual charge to the Division of Taxation equal to the corporate minimum tax, which that Division states as $400 — and § 7-16-67.1 lets an unpaid tax charge, certified any time after July 15, start a Secretary of State revocation, so the filing you never missed is not the one that costs you the entity. Rhode Island then offers the longest way back in the country, twenty years and fully retroactive — billed at $50 for every year or part-year elapsed, with no cap of the kind Maine writes into its fee statute, and with your name available to anyone the whole time — details in the Rhode Island LLC annual report guide.

Anniversary states (e.g. New Jersey, Washington, Oregon, Wyoming) key the deadline to the month or date your LLC was originally filed. Every entity you form adds a different due date, which is exactly how multi-entity owners end up missing one. Wyoming is the popular formation state here: its report is due the first day of your anniversary month, the license tax is just $60 for most small LLCs (it's charged only on assets located in Wyoming), and a miss triggers a 60-day dissolution clock — the full breakdown is in the Wyoming LLC annual report guide. Illinois is another anniversary state, with a $75 report due before the first of your anniversary month and a $100 penalty once you're 60 days late — the full breakdown, including the $200-plus reinstatement math, is in the Illinois LLC annual report guide. Nevada is the expensive anniversary state: two stacked filings ($150 Annual List + $200 State Business License = $350/yr) due the last day of your anniversary month, with penalties that also stack ($75 + $100) — the double-filing trap is broken down in the Nevada LLC annual list guide. Colorado is the cheapest of the group — a $25 Periodic Report due by the end of the second month after your report month begins (January → March 31) — but it carries the least-known name trap in the country: go Delinquent and, 400 days later, the state renames your entity with the word "delinquent" in it and releases your original name for anyone to take — the full staircase is in the Colorado LLC periodic report guide. New Jersey is the slow-fuse anniversary state: $75 by the end of your anniversary month, no late fee, filing required even if the State never sends a notice — but two consecutive missed years can void the charter, and reinstatement can mean a months-long tax clearance while your name sits unprotected — details in the New Jersey LLC annual report guide. And Massachusetts is the expensive outlier of the whole category: a $500 report — the highest flat LLC annual-report fee in the country, four times what a Massachusetts corporation pays — due on your exact anniversary date, not month-end, with no late fee but $500-per-year back reports stacking toward administrative dissolution — the full breakdown is in the Massachusetts LLC annual report guide. Virginia is the anniversary state with no report at all — just a $50 annual registration fee due the last day of your anniversary month — and the fastest cliff in the group: three months past due and the LLC's existence is automatically canceled by operation of law — details in the Virginia LLC annual registration fee guide. Washington is the anniversary state that puts the reminder risk on you in writing: $70 by the end of your anniversary month (file up to 180 days early), a $25 delinquency fee, and RCW 23.95.255(7)’s rule that never receiving the state’s courtesy notice is no excuse — with a 120-day path to administrative dissolution behind it — details in the Washington LLC annual report guide. Utah is the anniversary state where the tiny fee hides the fastest hard stop: an $18 "Annual Renewal" by your anniversary month-end, a 30-day grace period, a $10 late fee for 30 more days — and at day 61 the LLC is Expired, with only a 2-year window to reinstate before the entity is unrecoverable — the staircase (and the October 2026 statute renumbering) is in the Utah LLC annual report guide. And Wisconsin is the anniversary state that counts in a unit only one other state shares — the calendar quarter (Hawaii is the other): $25 online to the DFI (not a Secretary of State) by the last day of the quarter holding your formation anniversary, with no late fee at all to warn you — the first real consequence is dissolution grounds once the report is a year overdue, and your name protection ends the day you're dissolved — details in the Wisconsin LLC annual report guide. And Louisiana is the anniversary state with the sharpest front edge and the slowest kill clock at once: the report is due on or before your exact anniversary date ($35 online via geauxBIZ, $30 by mail) with no grace period — the next day you're "not in good standing," which statutorily bars the LLC from state contracts — yet revocation only comes after three consecutive missed years, with a 3-year retroactive reinstatement window and only 3 years of name protection behind it — details in the Louisiana LLC annual report guide. And Oregon is the anniversary state whose courtesy is the trap: it actually mails a renewal notice ~45 days before your exact anniversary date ($100) — but ORS 63.787(3) says never receiving it is no excuse, there's no late fee to warn you, and a missed report leads to a 45-day cure notice and then administrative dissolution — softened by the country's most forgiving repair path, a 5-year retroactive reinstatement window with a waiver possible even beyond it — details in the Oregon LLC annual report guide. Idaho is the anniversary state with the country's only genuinely free annual report — $0 online through SOSbiz, no late fee — which is exactly the problem: a filing that never touches your bank statement leaves no paper trail to remind anyone it exists, the report must be received (not postmarked) by your anniversary month-end, and a miss leads to a 60-day notice clock and administrative dissolution — softened by a 10-year reinstatement window with full relation-back — details in the Idaho LLC annual report guide. And Hawaii is Wisconsin's quarter-cadence sibling with the strangest risk profile in the country: $12.50 online to the DCCA by the last day of your formation quarter, a gentle $10-per-year late fee — and then two slow clocks stacked end to end: two years of unfiled reports is a termination ground (HRS 428-809), and reinstatement is only available for two years after termination (with a Department of Taxation clearance), after which the LLC is permanently unrecoverable — details in the Hawaii LLC annual report guide. And Oklahoma is the anniversary state with the quietest failure mode: a $25 Annual Certificate due on your exact anniversary date, an email-only reminder sent to your last address of record, loss of good standing 60 days later — which closes the courthouse doors to the company’s own lawsuits — and a three-year fuse after which the articles are deemed canceled automatically; the any-time back-filing repair is in the Oklahoma LLC annual certificate guide. And South Dakota is the one anniversary state where you cannot compute your own date, because no statute contains one: SDCL 47-34A-211 simply cross-refers to SDCL 59-11-24 — which sits in the Model Registered Agents Act and sets the report's contents only — so the due date is assigned administratively and the Secretary of State's own instructions tell you to look it up by Business ID, which is precisely why published guides give three different answers. Behind that ambiguity sits the gentlest enforcement staircase in the country (grounds only 60 days past due, and the state "may" rather than "shall" act, then 60 more days to cure) and a reinstatement right with no expiry date at all — plus, since 2024, an annual report that doubles as a farmland and foreign-beneficial-ownership disclosure published in an aggregated public report each December 1 — details in the South Dakota LLC annual report guide.

Tax-year-linked states (e.g. Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Vermont) tie the filing to your tax year — usually a date in spring for calendar-year LLCs — and often route it through the revenue department rather than the Secretary of State. Texas is the one that trips up the most owners, because it has no Secretary of State annual report at all and the filing that is required stays mandatory even at $0 tax due — see the full Texas LLC filing guide. Tennessee is the expensive one: the report is due the first day of the fourth month after your fiscal year closes (April 1 for calendar-year LLCs), the fee starts at a $300 minimum and rises $50 per member over six (capped at $3,000) — 15× what a Tennessee corporation pays for the same filing — and reinstating after an administrative dissolution requires a Department of Revenue tax clearance before the Secretary of State will act — details in the Tennessee LLC annual report guide. Alabama is the member of this group that mostly evaporated: no entity has filed a Secretary of State annual report there since October 1, 2024 (HB230), and for tax years from 2024 on, an LLC whose Business Privilege Tax computes to $100 or less is fully exempt from filing and paying — so the typical small Alabama LLC now owes no recurring state filing at all, though the ≤$100 test is self-assessed and Form PPT returns for anyone over the line — the full two-law story is in the Alabama LLC filing guide. And Vermont is the group's most literal case — 11 V.S.A. § 4033(c) gives you three months after your own fiscal year end, so March 31 is only the calendar-year default and no single date applies statewide — paired with the country's most forgiving back end: miss it and the articles "shall terminate" with no statutory notice step, yet reinstatement carries no stated deadline, relates back "as if the termination never occurred," and § 4034(d) expressly preserves members' limited liability and the validity of everything the company did while terminated; the clock that actually costs you is the five-year loss of your name — details in the Vermont LLC annual report guide.

No-report states (Arizona, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, and — for a report, at least — Delaware) skip the recurring report — though "no report" isn't "nothing": Ohio, for instance, still expires trade names every 5 years and is a favorite target of fake annual-report scam letters precisely because no real one exists (see the Ohio LLC guide) — and Delaware still charges its flat $300 franchise tax every June 1 — the full breakdown (no report, the $200 + 1.5%/month penalty, why LLCs and corporations are billed differently) is in the Delaware LLC franchise-tax guide, and California charges its $800 franchise tax on top of a biennial Statement of Information (see the full California LLC deadline guide). Arizona, the biggest no-report state, added a new wrinkle in 2025: an Attestation of Existence policy — LLCs with no filings in two years get an electronic notice each January and 60 days to respond, or administrative-dissolution proceedings begin — details in the Arizona LLC guide. South Carolina holds the club's most dangerous seat, because its exemption is conditional: an LLC that elects S-corp or C-corp taxation suddenly owes an annual report (Schedule D, buried inside the SCDOR tax return, due March 15 or April 15) plus a minimum $25/yr license fee — even in dormant years — details in the South Carolina LLC guide. And New Mexico — the no-report state most popular with non-resident founders — now has a misinformation problem: several AI-generated compliance sites claim a "triennial report" was enacted effective July 2024; the bill behind that claim (HB 281, 2023) died in committee and nothing is due, though foreign-owned single-member LLCs still owe the federal Form 5472 with its $25,000 penalty — the full fact-check is in the New Mexico LLC guide. (Confused about which obligation is which? See franchise tax vs. annual report, explained.)

Biennial (every-other-year) states. A few states file every two years instead of annually, keyed to your formation-anniversary month — California's Statement of Information is one, and New York's $9 Biennial Statement is another. New York is also the state that surprises new owners with a one-time publication requirement (advertise the LLC in two newspapers within 120 days, then file a $50 Certificate of Publication) — the full breakdown of both New York rules is in the New York LLC filing guide. Indiana is the third member of the club — a Business Entity Report due in your anniversary month every other year ($50 by mail, less online via INBiz), where the every-other-year cadence itself is the trap: annual reminders fire in the wrong year, 60 days late is statutory grounds for dissolution, and reinstatement needs a Department of Revenue tax clearance — the full 60+60-day staircase (and the new 2026 filer-identity rules) is in the Indiana LLC business entity report guide. Kansas is the club's newest member — and the one most of the internet hasn't caught up with: since January 1, 2024 its information report is biennial, due April 15 in years matching your formation year's parity (even-year formations file even years, odd file odd), with a 90-day window after the deadline and then forfeiture of the articles — reinstatement can reach back up to 10 years of missed report fees, and your name isn't reserved while you're forfeited — the full breakdown of the 2024 switch is in the Kansas LLC information report guide. And Iowa is the club's simplest member and the easiest to sleep through: every LLC in the state files in the same odd-numbered years, in a January 1 – April 1 window (next: 2027) — $30 online, no late fee, but ~60 days past due is statutory dissolution grounds and the name is only protected for 5 years after dissolution — details in the Iowa LLC biennial report guide. And Nebraska is Iowa's near-twin with a harder landing: the same statewide odd-numbered-year January 1 – April 1 window (next: 2027), a cheaper $25 online fee, no late fee, and a quiet grace period to June 16 — after which delinquent LLCs are administratively dissolved in a one-day statewide batch, domestic reinstatement is paper-only ($500 after 5 years), and a revoked foreign LLC can't reinstate at all — details in the Nebraska LLC biennial report guide. The District of Columbia belongs in this club too, and it is the member most often described wrongly: the $300 Form BRA-25 is due April 1 of the year after you register, and then April 1 of each 2nd calendar year — so the filing years inherit your registration year’s parity, and the widely-repeated “DC files in even-numbered years” rule is wrong for every LLC that registered in an even year. A miss adds $100, with a practical September 1 cliff before administrative dissolution — the full breakdown is in the Washington DC LLC biennial report guide. Alaska splits the difference between the two designs and is the harshest of the group on the far side: the state is divided by formation-year parity (even-year LLCs file in even years, odd in odd), the report is due before January 2 — the worst week of the year to remember anything, though the window opens the prior October 2 — and there's a separate free initial report due within six months of organizing. Six months delinquent is a dissolution ground, reinstatement runs two years at double the delinquency, and the sting is a timing gap in the statute itself: your company name is released to anyone else after only six months, which can block the reinstatement you still have eighteen months of right to — details in the Alaska LLC biennial report guide.

New for 2025–2026: Pennsylvania. PA introduced a mandatory annual report (September 30 for LLCs, $7). There's a grace period — no dissolution penalty for missed 2025/2026 reports — but enforcement with administrative dissolution begins with reports due in 2027, so it's the one new date worth adding to every PA owner's calendar now. Full breakdown of the Act 122 change, the entity-type deadline split and the 2027 transition: Pennsylvania LLC annual report guide.

What happens if you miss one? Typically a late fee first (Florida's is $400), then loss of good standing, then administrative dissolution — after which the LLC can't sue, close loans, or sign in its own name until reinstated, and reinstatement fees usually exceed the original filing many times over. Full breakdown, including how reinstatement works: Missed your LLC annual report? What actually happens.