Ohio LLC Annual Report: None Required (2026 Rules)

Nothing to file with the Ohio Secretary of State

Ohio asks for no annual report from an LLC. The two things that do recur are the registered agent and the yearly costs the state does have, both covered on their own pages.

Ohio registered agent rules What an Ohio LLC costs each year

Ohio LLC annual report

Annual report: Not required for LLCs
Yearly state fee: None at the Ohio Secretary of State
What recurs instead: A registered agent with an Ohio street address, and the business's own tax filings
If the LLC lapses: $25 state fee, within two years, with a new statutory agent named

Ohio LLC annual report rules at a glance

LLC annual report

Ohio: Not required

Yearly report fee

Ohio: None

Agency

Ohio: Ohio Secretary of State

Registered agent

Ohio: Required; keep it current with the Ohio Secretary of State

Dissolution for a missed report

Ohio: Not possible; a lapsed agent is the usual cause

Reinstatement after a lapse

Ohio: $25 state fee, within two years, with a new statutory agent named

Ohio LLC annual report rules, 2026
Item	Ohio
LLC annual report	Not required
Yearly report fee	None
Agency	Ohio Secretary of State
Registered agent	Required; keep it current with the Ohio Secretary of State
Dissolution for a missed report	Not possible; a lapsed agent is the usual cause
Reinstatement after a lapse	$25 state fee, within two years, with a new statutory agent named

State fees verified October 2026 and set by the state, not by us. Rules read from Ohio's statutes and the pages of the Ohio Secretary of State.

Why there is no Ohio LLC annual report

Ohio is one of the few states where the Secretary of State takes no annual report from LLCs or from corporations; only professional associations and limited liability partnerships file a biennial one. An Ohio LLC pays its $99 formation fee and has no recurring Secretary of State fee after that.

What Ohio requires instead

What Ohio requires continuously is a statutory agent, Ohio's name for a registered agent, with an Ohio street address. The agent is named on the articles, and a change of agent or of the agent's address is filed as it happens. Ohio's Commercial Activity Tax applies only to businesses with Ohio gross receipts above a threshold most small LLCs never reach, and municipal and sales tax registrations run through the Department of Taxation and the cities, not the Secretary of State.

The Secretary of State does cancel an LLC whose statutory agent lapses: when an agent resigns or the address fails, the state sends notice to the LLC, and an LLC that does not name a new agent within 30 days has its articles cancelled.

Staying in good standing without a report

In a report state the annual report is the yearly checkpoint: it forces the owner to confirm the agent and the addresses, and the state's reminder arrives before it. Ohio has no such checkpoint, so the record goes stale quietly. The habits that replace it are simple: keep the registered agent current and file a statement of change the week an agent or address changes; keep the operating agreement and member list up to date in the company's own records; and pull the LLC's record on the Ohio Secretary of State business search once a year to confirm it still reads active.

Two things are easy to confuse with an annual report in Ohio. Tax filings with the state's revenue department (income, sales, withholding, or a privilege or franchise tax where the state has one) are owed on their own schedules whatever the Secretary of State requires. And a foreign registration in another state carries that state's annual report: an Ohio LLC registered to do business in Florida files Florida's report by May 1 even though Ohio asks for nothing.

If the LLC lapses

An Ohio LLC cancelled for a lapsed statutory agent can be reinstated within two years for the state's $25 reinstatement fee, with a new agent named on the filing. There are no back reports, because there were never any reports.

Reinstatement rules for every state, including the ones with no report, are in our guide to reinstating a dissolved LLC; we also file reinstatements.

Standard Filings is a filing service, not a law firm. This page is general information about Ohio's LLC rules, read from the state's own statutes, fee schedules and filing pages; it is not legal or tax advice, and the state's current notice controls if the two differ.

Ohio LLC annual report FAQ

Does Ohio require an LLC annual report?+

No. Ohio requires no annual or biennial report from an LLC, and there is no yearly report fee at the Ohio Secretary of State. Ohio is one of the few states where the Secretary of State takes no annual report from LLCs or from corporations; only professional associations and limited liability partnerships file a biennial one. An Ohio LLC pays its $99 formation fee and has no recurring Secretary of State fee after that.

What does Ohio require from an LLC instead?+

Does an Ohio LLC pay an annual fee to the state?+

Not to the Ohio Secretary of State: there is no annual report and no yearly report fee. The recurring costs an Ohio LLC does have are its registered agent (nothing if an owner serves, a yearly fee if one is hired) and whatever taxes the business owes the state's revenue department, which run on their own schedules.

Can my Ohio LLC still be dissolved?+

Do Ohio corporations file an annual report?+

Do I still need a registered agent in Ohio?+

Yes. Every Ohio LLC keeps a registered agent with a street address in the state on its record, and a lapse there is the usual way an Ohio LLC loses good standing. The agent can be an owner who lives in Ohio or a commercial agent.