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

Kansas LLC information report rules at a glance

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

How Kansas's information report works

Kansas switched LLCs from an annual to a biennial filing in 2024. The Information Report is due April 15 of every second year, the years matching the LLC's formation year (even-year LLCs file in even years), through the Secretary of State's online system with a KanAccess login. The window opens January 1.

The state fee is $90 online, made up of the $80 statutory fee plus a $5 online and a $5 technology charge under the regulations amended in February 2026; the paper rate is higher. The report confirms the principal office and registered agent and asks for the names and addresses of the members or managers and the LLC's tax closing month.

Kansas charges no late fee in the 90 days after April 15. The penalty comes later, in a different form: an LLC that has not filed by mid-July has its articles forfeited by operation of law under K.S.A. 17-76,139(g), and a one-time $85 penalty is due with the reinstatement.

Who files it and what the form asks

Every Kansas LLC on the state's active record owes the information 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 Kansas-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 Kansas: the information 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 Kansas registered agent rules cover who may serve. Every state's change form and fee is in how to change a registered agent.

When the Kansas information report is due

Kansas uses one date for every LLC: April 15, every second year (counted from the formation 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. Kansas keeps accepting that year's report through July 14; after that the consequences below take over.

Your first information report

The first information report is due April 15 two years after the formation year, then every second year (formed in 2026: April 15, 2028, then 2030). Nothing is owed the year after formation.

The state fee and the late penalty

The state fee is $90, paid once every two years, so $45 a year in effect. It is set by Kansas 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.

Kansas charges no late fee. That does not make the deadline soft: the state's response to a missed report is the status change and dissolution process described next, not a fee, and a reinstatement costs more than the report ever did.

If you missed the Kansas information report

One missed report is enough to forfeit a Kansas LLC, 90 days after the due date, with no further notice. Reinstatement is paper-only: a $35 certificate of reinstatement plus the $85 penalty plus each missed report at the $110 paper rate, up to five reports; one missed report comes to $230 in state fees.

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 Kansas information report

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

• The LLC's Kansas file or entity number, as it appears on the articles or on the Kansas Secretary of State business search; the Kansas Secretary of State requires an online account tied to the record, so set that up before the deadline week.
• The registered agent's current name and Kansas 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 Kansas form asks for (above), spelled as the state has them.
• A card for the $90 state fee.
• 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 Kansas compares with its neighbors

Kansas's information report is due April 15, with a state fee of $90. Next door:

• Nebraska: a biennial report due April 1 (fee varies, no late fee).
• Missouri: no LLC annual report at all.
• Oklahoma: an annual certificate due the anniversary date of formation ($25 state fee, no late fee).
• Colorado: a periodic report due the last day of the anniversary month ($25 state fee, $50 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.