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

Louisiana 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 Louisiana's, read from its statutes and the pages of the Louisiana Secretary of State; the statutes are cited in the text.

How Louisiana's annual report works

Louisiana's annual report is due on the anniversary of the LLC's formation each year and is filed with the Secretary of State through geauxBIZ, which requires an account. The state fee is $35 from October 1, 2026 under Act 921 of 2026, and the state adds a $5 convenience fee for card payments.

The report confirms the registered office and agent, the LLC's mailing address, and the names and addresses of the managers or members, and it must be signed by a member, manager or authorized person.

There is no late fee in Louisiana (La. R.S. 49:222 sets the report fee and no penalty), and the state is unusually patient about dissolution, which requires three consecutive missed reports.

Who files it and what the form asks

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

When the Louisiana annual report is due

Louisiana keys the deadline to the LLC's own formation date: the annual report is due on the anniversary date of formation, 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 does not publish one opening date for every LLC; its portal accepts the report in the weeks before the deadline, and planning on the 60 days before is safe.

There is no grace period: the day after the due date the report is late. Louisiana keeps accepting that year's report 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 anniversary date of formation 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 $35 a year. It is set by Louisiana 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.

Louisiana 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 Louisiana annual report

Louisiana revokes an LLC's articles only after three consecutive annual reports have gone unfiled, and only after 30 days' notice. Reinstatement, allowed within three years of revocation, is $125 in state fees plus the current $35 annual report; the statute requires only the current report, not the ones that were missed, so the total is $160.

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 Louisiana 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 Louisiana file or entity number, as it appears on the articles or on the Louisiana Secretary of State business search; the Louisiana 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 Louisiana 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 Louisiana form asks for (above), spelled as the state has them.
• A card for the $35 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 Louisiana compares with its neighbors

Louisiana's annual report is due the anniversary date of formation, with a state fee of $35. Next door:

• Texas: a franchise tax report due May 15 (no fee, no late fee).
• Arkansas: an annual franchise tax report due May 1 ($150 state fee, no late fee).
• Mississippi: an annual report due April 15 (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.