Colorado LLC Annual Report: Due Date, Fee and Late Penalty

Colorado LLC periodic report rules at a glance

State fees verified October 2026 and set by the state, not by us. Deadlines, penalties and dissolution rules are Colorado's, read from its statutes and the pages of the Colorado Secretary of State; the statutes are cited in the text.

How Colorado's periodic report works

Colorado calls it a Periodic Report and files it online with the Secretary of State, with no account needed: you search the business record and file from it. The report is due by the last day of the LLC's anniversary month, and the state gives a generous window around that date: filing opens two months before the anniversary month and stays open, with a late fee, through the end of the second month after it.

The state fee is $25, and the report asks for little more than the principal office address, the mailing address, and the registered agent's name and address; Colorado does not collect member or manager names on it. The LLC shows as Noncompliant from the day after the due date until the report is in.

Filed inside the two-month late window, the report costs $50 more, so $75 in all. Colorado is also one of the few states where that is the end of the penalty: there is no further escalation of fees, only a change of status.

Who files it and what the form asks

Every Colorado LLC on the state's active record owes the periodic report for each report year, whether or not it did any business; an LLC that has stopped trading still owes it until it files articles of dissolution. A member, manager or someone they authorize signs it, and in practice the owner, the registered agent or the company's accountant files it.

The form confirms what the state already holds: the principal office and mailing address, the registered agent and registered office, and the people who run the LLC, with the Colorado-specific fields described above. What matters is that anything that changed during the year is corrected here, because the state sends its notices, including the next year's reminder, to the addresses on the report.

Changing the registered agent is best treated as a separate filing in Colorado: the periodic report confirms the agent on record, and the state's statement of change names the new one. Owners who switch agents usually file the change first so the report shows the right agent. We can make the switch for you, and the Colorado registered agent rules cover who may serve. Every state's change form and fee is in how to change a registered agent.

When the Colorado periodic report is due

Colorado keys the deadline to the LLC's own formation date: the periodic report is due on the last day of the anniversary month, every year. Two LLCs formed in different months have different deadlines, which is why the state cannot put one date on a poster and why an owner who formed late in the year sometimes assumes the report is a January task when it is not. The formation date is on the articles the state returned and on its business search. The state starts accepting the report two months before the anniversary month.

There is no grace period: the day after the due date the report is late. Colorado keeps accepting that year's report, with the penalty, through the end of the second month after the due month; after that the consequences below take over.

Your first periodic report

The first periodic report is due on the last day of the anniversary month in the year after formation, and every year after that: formed in June 2026, the first one is due in June 2027.

The state fee and the late penalty

The state fee is $25 a year. It is set by Colorado and published on the state's own schedule; anyone who files for you pays the same amount to the state, and the state fee is shown separately wherever the filing is sold.

Filed late, the report costs $50 more, $75 in state charges altogether. The penalty is Colorado's, owed to the Colorado Secretary of State, and it is charged whether the report is a day late or six months late.

If you missed the Colorado periodic report

Colorado does not administratively dissolve an LLC for a missed periodic report. Sixty days after going Noncompliant the LLC becomes Delinquent and stays so until cured; its name is protected for only 400 days in that status, and anyone who checks the record sees it. The cure is a single Statement Curing Delinquency, $100 in state fees, with no back reports or late fees added; an LLC delinquent five years or more also files an affidavit with photo identification.

The ladder is the same everywhere: a late fee where the state has one, then loss of good standing (which blocks a certificate of good standing and the loans, contracts and registrations that need one), then administrative dissolution or revocation, then reinstatement. Our guide to reinstating a dissolved LLC walks through the steps and the state fees in every state, and we file reinstatements. Until the LLC is dissolved, the cheapest fix is almost always to file the report now.

Before you file the Colorado periodic report

The filing itself takes minutes once the details are to hand; most of the time lost on a periodic report is spent hunting for them. Have ready:

• The LLC's Colorado file or entity number, as it appears on the articles or on the Colorado Secretary of State business search; no account is needed on the state's portal.
• The registered agent's current name and Colorado street address; if the agent has changed, file the change first.
• The principal office and mailing address as they should read for the coming year.
• The names and addresses the Colorado form asks for (above), spelled as the state has them.
• A card for the $25 state fee, plus the late penalty if the due date has passed.
• The signer's name and capacity: member, manager or authorized person.

Save the state's confirmation when it arrives. It is the proof of filing a bank, a lender or a buyer will ask for, and the date on it is the date the state goes by.

How Colorado compares with its neighbors

Colorado's periodic report is due the last day of the anniversary month, with a state fee of $25. Next door:

• Wyoming: an annual report due the first day of the anniversary month ($60 state fee, no late fee).
• Nebraska: a biennial report due April 1 (fee varies, no late fee).
• Kansas: an information report due April 15, every second year ($90 state fee, no late fee).
• Oklahoma: an annual certificate due the anniversary date of formation ($25 state fee, no late fee).
• New Mexico: no LLC annual report at all.
• Utah: an annual renewal due the anniversary date of formation ($18 state fee, $10 late penalty).

An LLC registered to do business in more than one of these states owes each state's report on each state's calendar; the formation state's filing never covers a foreign registration, and the due dates rarely line up.