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

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

How Mississippi's annual report works

Mississippi's annual report is free for a domestic LLC (foreign LLCs pay $250). It is filed with the Secretary of State through its online business portal, which requires an account, between January 1 and April 15 each year.

The report confirms the principal office, the registered agent and office, the names and addresses of the managers or members, and an email address for the LLC, and it asks for the NAICS code. The state sends reminders by email to the address on record.

There is no late fee (Miss. Code 79-29-1203 and the Secretary of State's fee schedule list none). As in Kentucky and Iowa, the whole consequence of missing April 15 is the dissolution process.

Who files it and what the form asks

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

When the Mississippi annual report is due

Mississippi uses one date for every LLC: April 15, 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. Mississippi 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 April 15 of the year after the LLC was formed: formed any time in 2026, first report by April 15, 2027. Nothing is owed in the formation year itself.

The state fee and the late penalty

Mississippi charges nothing for the annual report itself. The report is still required, and the consequences of missing it are the same as in a state that charges: the fee was never the point of the filing.

Mississippi 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 Mississippi annual report

More than 60 days after April 15 the Secretary of State may begin administrative dissolution, and the LLC is dissolved if it does not file within 60 days of the notice. Reinstatement can be filed at any time for $50 in state fees; the missed reports themselves cost nothing, and some LLCs are asked for a tax clearance letter from the Department of Revenue first.

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 Mississippi 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 Mississippi file or entity number, as it appears on the articles or on the Mississippi Secretary of State business search; the Mississippi 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 Mississippi 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 Mississippi form asks for (above), spelled as the state has them.
• No payment: the report is free, but it still has to be submitted.
• 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 Mississippi compares with its neighbors

Mississippi's annual report is due April 15, with no state fee. Next door:

• Louisiana: an annual report due the anniversary date of formation ($35 state fee, no late fee).
• Arkansas: an annual franchise tax report due May 1 ($150 state fee, no late fee).
• 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).
• Alabama: 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.