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

Georgia LLC annual registration rules at a glance

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

How Georgia's annual registration works

Georgia calls it an Annual Registration and files it through the Secretary of State's eCorp system between January 1 and April 1 each year. An LLC with nothing to change can use the One Click option without an account; changes to the agent or addresses need an eCorp login. Registrations submitted before January 1 do not count toward the new year, so there is no filing early in December.

The state fee is $60, made up of a $50 registration fee and the state's $10 service charge, which applies to online filings too. Georgia lets you pay for one, two or three years of registration at once, which some owners use to take the April deadline off the calendar for a while. The form asks for the registered agent's name and Georgia street address, the principal office mailing address, and the filer's name and email.

Georgia is one of the states where the registration itself can change the registered agent, so an LLC switching agents does not need a separate amendment or fee. Filing after April 1 adds a $25 late penalty.

Who files it and what the form asks

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

Georgia lets the annual registration 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 Georgia registered agent rules cover who may serve. Every state's change form and fee is in how to change a registered agent.

When the Georgia annual registration is due

Georgia uses one date for every LLC: April 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. Georgia keeps accepting that year's report, with the penalty, through December 31 of the report year; after that the consequences below take over.

Your first annual registration

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

The state fee and the late penalty

The state fee is $60 a year. It is set by Georgia 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 $25 more, $85 in state charges altogether. The penalty is Georgia's, owed to the Georgia Secretary of State, Corporations Division, and it is charged whether the report is a day late or six months late.

If you missed the Georgia annual registration

If the registration is still unfiled 60 days after April 1, the Secretary of State mails a notice, and the LLC is administratively dissolved if it does not cure within 60 days of that notice. Georgia's reinstatement is $260 in state fees ($250 plus the service charge), filed within five years of dissolution with a statement that taxes are paid; the state's rules make the next registration due the year after reinstatement, so no back registrations or penalties are added.

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 Georgia annual registration

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

• The LLC's Georgia file or entity number, as it appears on the articles or on the Georgia Secretary of State, Corporations Division business search; no account is needed on the state's portal.
• The registered agent's current name and Georgia 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 Georgia form asks for (above), spelled as the state has them.
• A card for the $60 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 Georgia compares with its neighbors

Georgia's annual registration is due April 1, with a state fee of $60. Next door:

• Florida: an annual report due May 1 ($138.75 state fee, $400 late penalty).
• Alabama: no LLC annual report at all.
• Tennessee: an annual report due the first day of the fourth month after the fiscal year end (April 1 for a calendar year) (fee varies, no late fee).
• North Carolina: an annual report due April 15 ($200 state fee, no late fee).
• South Carolina: no LLC annual report at all.

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.