Florida Annual Report: Due Date, Fee & Filing Steps

Fla. Stat. § 605.0212 requires every Florida LLC to file an annual report with the Division of Corporations; corporations file under Fla. Stat. § 607.1622. The report confirms your entity's management and contact information. It is mandatory every year, it is filed online only, and the state enforces it with a $400 penalty followed by administrative dissolution.

Florida Annual Report Due Date

• Window opens: January 1
• Deadline: May 1
• Delinquent: May 2 onward; the $400 late fee attaches
• Third Friday in September: remaining non-filers are dissolved or lose their Florida authority

The obligation repeats every year for as long as the entity exists, whether or not any information changed. Filing early in the window carries no downside.

Florida Annual Report Fee

The LLC fee is exactly $138.75, set by Fla. Stat. § 605.0213: a $50 statutory report fee plus an $88.75 supplemental corporate fee. By entity type:

A Certificate of Status is an optional $5.00 add-on at checkout.

How to File the Florida Annual Report

Filing happens exclusively through Sunbiz, the Division of Corporations' e-filing system. No mail option exists for this report.

1. Retrieve your entity's document number, either from your formation confirmation or from a Sunbiz records search.
2. Open the annual report filing at the official state portal during the January 1 to May 1 window.
3. Verify or amend the registered agent, principal address, mailing address, and manager or member entries. At least one manager (MGR) or managing member (MGRM) must appear on an LLC report.
4. If the report designates a new registered agent, that agent must electronically sign to accept the designation.
5. Submit payment. Credit card payments post immediately; checks and money orders are processed in the order received.

Entity name and entity type cannot be modified on this filing; each needs its own amendment.

Late Penalty: the $400 Fee, Then Dissolution

File after May 1 and the Division adds a flat $400 late fee. For an LLC that raises the total to $538.75, and the statute provides no waiver mechanism. Nonprofit corporations are exempt from the $400 penalty; every for-profit entity pays it.

The escalation ends in September: entities still delinquent on the third Friday of that month are administratively dissolved (Fla. Stat. § 605.0714), and foreign entities lose their authority to transact business under § 605.0906. A dissolved entity cannot legally conduct business, enter contracts, or bring lawsuits in Florida.

Reinstatement After Dissolution

Reinstatement is available, but the path back runs through Sunbiz: every missed report gets filed, every associated fee (late fees included) gets paid, and a reinstatement fee is added on top. The entity's name may also have been claimed by another business in the interim. Filing by May 1 avoids all of it.

How We Help

As your registered agent, we track the May 1 deadline and remind you before the window closes. Deadline tracking comes standard in the $99/year service, along with same-day scanning of every Division of Corporations notice that reaches us for you.

We do not submit the report itself (it needs your entity details and your payment to the state), but with reminders in place the deadline stops being a hazard.

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