North Dakota LLC Annual Report: Due Date, Fee and Late Penalty

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

How North Dakota's annual report works

North Dakota's annual report is due November 15 each year, the latest fixed deadline after Minnesota's, and is filed with the Secretary of State through the FirstStop portal with a North Dakota Login. The state accepts it from January 1, and the state fee is $50.

The report confirms the principal executive office, the registered agent and office, and the names and addresses of the managers or governors, and it asks for a brief description of the business and whether the LLC is member-managed. The Secretary of State emails a notice ahead of the deadline.

A report filed after November 15 carries a $50 late fee (N.D.C.C. 10-32.1-92), doubling the cost to $100.

Who files it and what the form asks

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

When the North Dakota annual report is due

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

The state fee and the late penalty

The state fee is $50 a year. It is set by North Dakota 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, $100 in state charges altogether. The penalty is North Dakota's, owed to the North Dakota Secretary of State, and it is charged whether the report is a day late or six months late.

If you missed the North Dakota annual report

An LLC that has not filed within six months after November 15 is terminated by operation of law, around the middle of May. Within one year of termination the LLC can reinstate by filing the past-due $50 report with its $50 late fee and a $135 reinstatement fee, $235 in state fees for one missed report; after a year, reinstatement needs a district court petition.

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 North Dakota 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 North Dakota file or entity number, as it appears on the articles or on the North Dakota Secretary of State business search; the North Dakota 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 North Dakota 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 North Dakota form asks for (above), spelled as the state has them.
• A card for the $50 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 North Dakota compares with its neighbors

North Dakota's annual report is due November 15, with a state fee of $50. Next door:

• Minnesota: an annual renewal due December 31 (no fee, no late fee).
• South Dakota: an annual report due the first day of the anniversary month ($55 state fee, $55 late penalty).
• Montana: an annual report due April 15 (no fee, $35 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.