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

Utah LLC annual renewal rules at a glance

State fees verified October 2026 and set by the state, not by us. Deadlines, penalties and dissolution rules are Utah's, read from its statutes and the pages of the Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code; the statutes are cited in the text.

How Utah's annual renewal works

Utah calls it an Annual Renewal and files it with the Division of Corporations and Commercial Code through its business registration portal (a UtahID login is required). It is due on the anniversary of the LLC's registration each year, and the Division opens the renewal 60 days before that date and sends a notice at the opening.

The state fee is $18, one of the lowest in the country. The renewal confirms the principal office, the registered agent, and the names and addresses of the members or managers, and changes to any of them are free when made with the renewal; Utah is one of the states where the report can name a new agent without a separate filing or fee.

A renewal filed after the anniversary carries a $10 late fee under the Division's fee schedule, so $28 in all. Utah's business-entity statutes moved to Title 16, Chapter 1a effective October 1, 2026, but the renewal rule itself did not change.

Who files it and what the form asks

Every Utah LLC on the state's active record owes the annual renewal 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 Utah-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.

Utah lets the annual renewal itself name a new registered agent, so an LLC switching agents does not need a separate change filing or fee: the new agent's details go on the report and the record updates when it is accepted. We can make the switch for you, and the Utah registered agent rules cover who may serve. Every state's change form and fee is in how to change a registered agent.

When the Utah annual renewal is due

Utah keys the deadline to the LLC's own formation date: the annual renewal 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 starts accepting the report 60 days before the due date.

There is no grace period: the day after the due date the report is late. Utah 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 renewal

The first annual renewal 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 $18 a year. It is set by Utah 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 $10 more, $28 in state charges altogether. The penalty is Utah's, owed to the Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code, and it is charged whether the report is a day late or six months late.

If you missed the Utah annual renewal

An LLC not renewed within 60 days after the due date receives a notice, and if it is still unrenewed 60 days after that it expires, about four months after the anniversary. Reinstatement is $54 in state fees plus $18 for each missed renewal year and one $10 late fee, $82 for a single missed year, with the Tax Commission confirming good standing; Utah sets no deadline for reinstating.

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 Utah annual renewal

The filing itself takes minutes once the details are to hand; most of the time lost on an annual renewal is spent hunting for them. Have ready:

• The LLC's Utah file or entity number, as it appears on the articles or on the Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code business search; the Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code requires an online account tied to the record, so set that up before the deadline week.
• The registered agent's current name and Utah street address, or the new agent's details if you are switching agents on this report.
• The principal office and mailing address as they should read for the coming year.
• The names and addresses the Utah form asks for (above), spelled as the state has them.
• A card for the $18 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 Utah compares with its neighbors

Utah's annual renewal is due the anniversary date of formation, with a state fee of $18. Next door:

• Idaho: an annual report due the last day of the anniversary month (no fee, no late fee).
• Wyoming: an annual report due the first day of the anniversary month ($60 state fee, no late fee).
• Colorado: a periodic report due the last day of the anniversary month ($25 state fee, $50 late penalty).
• Arizona: no LLC annual report at all.
• Nevada: an annual list due the last day of the anniversary month ($350 state fee, $175 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.