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

Florida LLC annual report rules at a glance

State fees verified October 2026 and set by the state, not by us. Deadlines, penalties and dissolution rules are Florida's, read from its statutes and the pages of the Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz); the statutes are cited in the text.

How Florida's annual report works

Florida's annual report is filed with the Division of Corporations on Sunbiz between January 1 and May 1 each year. There is no login; you file against the LLC's document number, confirm or update the record, and pay. Every LLC in the state shares the same May 1 deadline, which is why Sunbiz slows down in the last week of April.

The state fee is $138.75 for an LLC. The report confirms the principal and mailing addresses, the registered agent and registered office, the names and addresses of the managers or managing members, and the federal employer identification number if the LLC has one; it also lets you request a Certificate of Status ($5 state fee) with the filing. Florida is one of the states where the report can name a new registered agent, with the new agent typing an acceptance, so a change of agent needs no separate filing.

Florida's penalty is the steepest flat late fee in the country: $400, added the moment May 1 passes, on top of the $138.75. Nonprofit corporations are exempt from it; LLCs are not. There is no partial penalty and no waiver for a first offence.

Who files it and what the form asks

Every Florida LLC on the state's active record owes the annual 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 Florida-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.

Florida lets the annual report itself name a new registered agent, so an LLC switching agents does not need a separate change filing or fee: the new agent's details go on the report and the record updates when it is accepted. We can make the switch for you, and the Florida registered agent rules cover who may serve. Every state's change form and fee is in how to change a registered agent.

When the Florida annual report is due

Florida uses one date for every LLC: May 1, every year. The state starts accepting the report on January 1, so the filing window runs from then to the due date, and filing in the first weeks of it is the simplest way never to meet the penalty.

There is no grace period: the day after the due date the report is late. Florida keeps accepting that year's report, with the penalty, through the fourth Friday of September, the day the state dissolves non-filers (5 PM ET for card payments); after that the consequences below take over.

Your first annual report

The first annual report is due May 1 of the year after the LLC was formed: formed any time in 2026, first report by May 1, 2027. Nothing is owed in the formation year itself.

The state fee and the late penalty

The state fee is $138.75 a year. It is set by Florida 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 $400 more, $538.75 in state charges altogether. The penalty is Florida's, owed to the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, and it is charged whether the report is a day late or six months late.

If you missed the Florida annual report

Florida keeps accepting the late report, with the $400 penalty, until the fourth Friday of September, when the Division administratively dissolves every LLC that has not filed. After that the report alone can no longer be filed: the LLC files a reinstatement instead, at $100 in state fees plus the $138.75 for each missed year's report, filed in place of the past-due reports, and the $400 penalty is not charged on top. One missed year therefore costs $238.75 to reinstate against $538.75 to file late in June.

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 Florida annual report

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

• The LLC's Florida file or entity number, as it appears on the articles or on the Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz) business search; no account is needed on the state's portal.
• The registered agent's current name and Florida street address, or the new agent's details if you are switching agents on this report.
• The principal office and mailing address as they should read for the coming year.
• The names and addresses the Florida form asks for (above), spelled as the state has them.
• A card for the $138.75 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 Florida compares with its neighbors

Florida's annual report is due May 1, with a state fee of $138.75. Next door:

• Alabama: no LLC annual report at all.
• Georgia: an annual registration due April 1 ($60 state fee, $25 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.