Every Florida LLC and corporation files an annual report with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. The report keeps your company's public record current and your status active. Skip it and the state adds a steep late fee, then dissolves the company a few months later. Here is the full 2026 picture, drawn from Fla. Stat. § 605.0212 and the state's own filing instructions.

When Is the Florida Annual Report Due?

May 1, every year. The filing window opens January 1, which gives you four months to knock it out. The report is required each year after the year you formed, even when nothing about the business has changed. A January filing and an April 30 filing are treated exactly the same, so filing early is painless.

Anything submitted on or after May 2 counts as late, and Florida is not forgiving about it (more on that below).

Florida Annual Report Fee: $138.75 for LLCs

The official Florida annual report fee for an LLC is $138.75. Under the fee statute, Fla. Stat. § 605.0213, that figure combines a $50 report fee with an $88.75 supplemental corporate fee. Other entity types pay different amounts:

Profit corporations: $150
Nonprofit corporations: $61.25
Limited partnerships and LLLPs: $500

Want a Certificate of Status while you're in there? It's an optional $5 add-on at filing time.

How to File Your Florida Annual Report

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Florida accepts annual reports online only, through the state's Sunbiz e-filing system. There is no paper version to mail in. The filing itself usually goes quickly:

Have your document number handy. It's on your original filing paperwork, or you can look your company up in the Sunbiz records search.
Open the annual report filing page at Sunbiz any time between January 1 and May 1.
Confirm or update your principal address, mailing address, registered agent, and the people listed for the company. An LLC must list at least one manager (MGR) or managing member (MGRM).
If you're designating a new registered agent on the report, the new agent signs electronically to accept the appointment.
Pay the fee ($138.75 for an LLC). Pay by credit card and the filing posts right away; pay by check or money order and it processes in the order the state receives it.

One thing the annual report cannot do: change your company's name or entity type. Both of those require a separate amendment filing.

The $400 Late Fee and the Dissolution Timeline

Miss May 1 and Florida tacks a $400 late fee onto the filing, which brings an LLC's total to $538.75. The state does not waive it, no matter how good the story. Nonprofit corporations are the one exception; they're exempt from the $400 penalty.

Keep not filing and it gets worse. A company that still hasn't filed by the third Friday in September is administratively dissolved under Fla. Stat. § 605.0714. Out-of-state companies registered in Florida have their authority revoked instead. A dissolved LLC can't legally operate, and bringing it back means filing the missed reports, paying every fee owed, and paying a reinstatement fee on top.

How We Help with Compliance

We don't file the annual report for you (the state wants your details and your payment), but our $99 per year registered agent service makes sure the deadline never sneaks up on you:

Deadline Reminders We watch the calendar for you and start nudging well before May 1, so there's plenty of time to file without flirting with the $400 penalty.

State Mail, Handled Notices from the Division of Corporations come to us as your registered agent, and we scan them to you the same day they arrive. You'll always know what the state is saying about your company.

Privacy Protection Our Florida address sits on your public record instead of your home or office address.

Friendly Support Not sure what the state expects? Ask us. We can't give legal advice, but we can point you to the right resources and explain what a notice means.

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