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

Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin's, read from its statutes and the pages of the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions; the statutes are cited in the text.

How Wisconsin's annual report works

Wisconsin ties the annual report to a calendar quarter: it is due by the last day of the quarter that contains the LLC's formation anniversary, so an LLC formed in May files by June 30 each year. It is filed with the Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) online against the LLC's entity ID, no account needed, and the state fee is $25 for a domestic LLC.

The report confirms the principal office, the registered agent and office, and the names and addresses of the managers (or members if member-managed), plus a brief description of the business. DFI emails a notice to the address on record before the report is due.

DFI's own words are that there are no late fees or penalties: a late report is $25 online, and paper back reports add a single $15. The consequence is a slow dissolution clock.

Who files it and what the form asks

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

When the Wisconsin annual report is due

Wisconsin keys the deadline to the LLC's own formation date: the annual report is due on the last day of the calendar quarter that contains the anniversary month, 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 does not publish one opening date for every LLC; its portal accepts the report in the weeks before the deadline, and planning on the 60 days before is safe.

There is no grace period: the day after the due date the report is late. Wisconsin 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 on the last day of the calendar quarter that contains the anniversary month 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 $25 a year. It is set by Wisconsin 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.

Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin annual report

Wisconsin may administratively dissolve an LLC only once a report is more than one year overdue, and then only 60 days after notice; DFI says that in practice it happens after a few years. Reinstatement is $100 in state fees plus every unpaid $25 report, so $150 at the point a second report has come due.

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 Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin file or entity number, as it appears on the articles or on the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions business search; no account is needed on the state's portal.
• The registered agent's current name and Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin form asks for (above), spelled as the state has them.
• A card for the $25 state fee.
• 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 Wisconsin compares with its neighbors

Wisconsin's annual report is due the last day of the calendar quarter that contains the anniversary month, with a state fee of $25. Next door:

• Minnesota: an annual renewal due December 31 (no fee, no late fee).
• Iowa: a biennial report due April 1 ($30 state fee, no late fee).
• Illinois: an annual report due the first day of the anniversary month ($75 state fee, $100 late penalty).
• Michigan: an annual statement due February 15 ($25 state fee, no late fee).

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.