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

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

How Maine's annual report works

Maine's annual report is filed with the Secretary of State's Bureau of Corporations, Elections and Commissions between January 1 and June 1 each year, online against the LLC's charter number with no account. The state fee is $85 for a domestic LLC.

The report confirms the registered agent and registered office, the principal office address, and the name and address of at least one member or manager, and it is signed by a member, manager or authorized agent. Maine sends the reminder to the registered agent on record ahead of the window.

A report filed after June 1 carries a $50 late penalty on top of the $85 (31 M.R.S. 1680(10)), as long as it is filed before the LLC is dissolved; after dissolution the penalty is replaced by the reinstatement fee.

Who files it and what the form asks

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

When the Maine annual report is due

Maine uses one date for every LLC: June 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. Maine 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 June 1 of the year after the LLC was formed: formed any time in 2026, first report by June 1, 2027. Nothing is owed in the formation year itself.

The state fee and the late penalty

The state fee is $85 a year. It is set by Maine 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 $50 more, $135 in state charges altogether. The penalty is Maine's, owed to the Maine Secretary of State, and it is charged whether the report is a day late or six months late.

If you missed the Maine annual report

Not filing the report or paying the late penalty is grounds for administrative dissolution, and the Secretary of State dissolves the LLC if it is not cured within 60 days of its notice. Reinstatement, allowed within six years, is $150 in state fees for failure to file plus each missed report at $85, so one missed report costs $235; the $150 is capped at $600 however many years were missed.

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 Maine 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 Maine file or entity number, as it appears on the articles or on the Maine Secretary of State business search; no account is needed on the state's portal.
• The registered agent's current name and Maine 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 Maine form asks for (above), spelled as the state has them.
• A card for the $85 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 Maine compares with its neighbors

Maine's annual report is due June 1, with a state fee of $85. Next door:

• New Hampshire: an annual report due April 1 ($100 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.