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On January 1, 2024, Kansas stopped requiring an annual report and moved every business entity to a biennial "business entity information report." Which year is your year is set by a parity rule written directly into K.S.A. 17-76,139(b): an LLC "that filed formation documents in an even-numbered year shall file a report in each even-numbered year," and odd-year formations file in odd years — due not later than April 15. That's a genuinely friendlier system than the old annual one, but it created two new ways to get hurt. First, stale information: plenty of guides, calendar templates, and even some registered-agent reminder systems still describe the pre-2024 annual filing, so owners either file in an off-year (harmless, but confusing) or — worse — assume a reminder that never comes. Second, the parity miss: an owner who formed in 2023 and filed in 2025 will see nothing due in 2026 and can easily lose the thread by 2027. And Kansas backs its relaxed cadence with one of the shorter fuses in the country: file more than 90 days late and the penalty provisions of K.S.A. 17-7509 and 17-7510(a) apply to your articles of organization — the articles are forfeited (K.S.A. 17-76,139(g)). For a calendar-year LLC that means the walls arrive around mid-July of your filing year.
| Item | Kansas LLC |
|---|---|
| What's due | Business Entity Information Report with the Secretary of State (K.S.A. 17-76,139) — biennial since January 1, 2024 |
| Which years | Formation-year parity: formed in an even year → file every even year; formed in an odd year → file every odd year. Per the SOS, a new business owes its first report in the next year of its parity (formed 2026 → first report 2028) |
| Deadline | April 15 of your filing year (statutory: "not later than April 15") |
| Fee | Statute sets $80 plus an amount specified by regulation (17-76,139(f)); practitioner guides report the combined total as $100 online / $110 paper — the Kansas Business Center shows the exact amount when you file |
| Grace window | 90 days past the deadline — you can still file within it (roughly until mid-July for calendar-year filers) |
| After 90 days | Forfeiture of the articles of organization (17-76,139(g), via the K.S.A. 17-7509 / 17-7510(a) penalty provisions) — the LLC loses its authority to operate as an LLC in Kansas |
| Reinstatement | Certificate of Reinstatement (K.S.A. 17-76,146) + the reinstatement fee under 17-76,136(d) + information-report fees for all past-due reports for the preceding 10 years + all other fees and penalties due. Reinstatement is retroactive and validates everything done in the gap |
| Your name | Not guaranteed: 17-76,146(a)(1) requires the certificate to state a new name "if such name is not available at the time of reinstatement" — someone can take yours while the articles sit forfeited |
| Where | Kansas Secretary of State — information reports (online filing + business search to look up your formation year) · SOS: 785-296-4564 |
Not sure which year is yours? The parity is keyed to the year your formation documents were first filed with the Kansas SOS — not the year you started doing business or got your EIN. Look it up with the SOS Business Search ("original formation" date on your entity record). Only the year changed in 2024 — the month and day (April 15) stayed the same.
Kansas's mechanics are actually generous — half as many filings, a real 90-day cushion, and a reinstatement statute (K.S.A. 17-76,146) that fully validates every contract and act from the forfeiture gap once you cure. The danger is entirely informational. A biennial cadence defeats the annual habit: tax season stops functioning as a reminder in your off years, and any calendar, checklist, or blog post written before 2024 is now wrong in a way that feels right. The forfeiture math then compounds quietly. Each missed cycle stacks another back-report fee, and the statute reaches back up to ten years of past-due reports at reinstatement — plus penalties — so an LLC that drifts for several cycles pays for every one of them at once, at whatever moment it suddenly needs good standing (a loan closing, a lawsuit, a sale). And unlike states that reserve your name during delinquency, Kansas's reinstatement statute openly contemplates that your name may be gone. If you're staring at a forfeited status right now, the triage order is in what to do if you missed your annual report.
| Where you are | What it costs |
|---|---|
| On time (by April 15 of your parity year) | ~$100 online / $110 paper (statutory $80 + regulatory amount) |
| April 16 – ~mid-July | Still filable within the 90-day window |
| Past 90 days | Articles forfeited (17-76,139(g)) |
| Reinstatement | Certificate of Reinstatement + reinstatement fee + up to 10 years of back report fees + penalties — retroactive once granted, but your name may no longer be available |
Kansas now belongs to the small biennial club alongside Indiana, New York, and California's Statement of Information — and it shares Indiana's core hazard: the every-other-year cadence itself misfires annual reminder habits. But where Indiana keys the cycle to your anniversary month, Kansas uses a fixed April 15 with a statewide even/odd parity, which at least makes the date easy and the year the only variable. The 90-day fuse puts Kansas among the faster cliffs — closer to Virginia's three-month automatic cancellation than to the multi-year kill clocks of Louisiana or New Jersey — though the 10-year back-fee reachback most resembles Massachusetts's stack-every-missed-report reinstatement math. It's also worth flagging the inverse trap: because most states didn't switch, multi-state operators who learned "Kansas = biennial now" sometimes wrongly relax about their other states. The 50-state table shows every state's actual cadence side by side.
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