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

Hawaii 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 Hawaii's, read from its statutes and the pages of the Hawaii DCCA, Business Registration Division; the statutes are cited in the text.

How Hawaii's annual report works

Hawaii ties the annual report to a calendar quarter rather than a date. The report is filed with the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Business Registration Division, during the quarter that contains the LLC's formation anniversary: an LLC formed in May files between April 1 and June 30 each year. Hawaii Business Express (hbe.dcca.hawaii.gov) is the portal.

The state fee is $15, or $12.50 when the report is filed online. The form confirms the principal office and mailing address, the registered agent, the names and addresses of the managers (or members if member-managed), and whether the LLC is manager-managed.

A report filed after its quarter closes carries a $10 late fee for each delinquent year under the Division's current practice; the statute allows up to $100 for each 30 days, so the $10 is the director's choice rather than a cap.

Who files it and what the form asks

Every Hawaii 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 Hawaii-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 Hawaii: the annual 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 Hawaii registered agent rules cover who may serve. Every state's change form and fee is in how to change a registered agent.

When the Hawaii annual report is due

Hawaii keys the deadline to the LLC's own formation date: the annual report is due on the last day of the calendar quarter that contains 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 the first day of the anniversary quarter.

There is no grace period: the day after the due date the report is late. Hawaii 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 report

The first annual report is due on the last day of the calendar quarter that contains 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 $15 ($12.50 online). It is set by Hawaii 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 $10 more, $25 in state charges altogether. The penalty is Hawaii's, owed to the Hawaii DCCA, Business Registration Division, and it is charged whether the report is a day late or six months late.

If you missed the Hawaii annual report

Hawaii does not terminate an LLC for one missed report. After two years of missed annual reports the Division sends a notice and administratively terminates the LLC 60 days later if the reports are still unfiled. Reinstatement, allowed within two years of termination, is $25 in state fees plus every missed report at $15 and the $10 late fee for each delinquent year, together with a Hawaii tax clearance certificate; the minimum, at two missed reports, is $75.

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 Hawaii 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 Hawaii file or entity number, as it appears on the articles or on the Hawaii DCCA, Business Registration Division business search; no account is needed on the state's portal.
• The registered agent's current name and Hawaii 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 Hawaii form asks for (above), spelled as the state has them.
• A card for the $15 ($12.50 online) 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 Hawaii compares with its neighbors

Hawaii's annual report is due the last day of the calendar quarter that contains the anniversary month, with a state fee of $15. Next door:

• Georgia: an annual registration due April 1 ($60 state fee, $25 late penalty).
• Idaho: an annual report due the last day of the anniversary month (no fee, no late fee).

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.