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Florida LLC Annual Report: Due Dates, Fees, and How to File

The Florida annual report is the single most commonly missed obligation for small LLCs—not because it is hard, but because it arrives once a year with no invoice and no warning that feels urgent. Miss it and the state charges a $400 late fee on top of the $138.75 filing fee. Keep missing it and Florida will administratively dissolve your company. Here is how to stay ahead of it.

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What the annual report actually is

Despite the name, it is not a financial statement. Florida's annual report is a short confirmation filing: you verify your LLC's principal and mailing addresses, your registered agent, and your authorized members or managers. If nothing changed, you are mostly clicking through a prefilled form.

Every active Florida LLC must file one each year, starting the calendar year after formation. An LLC formed any time in 2026 files its first annual report between January 1 and May 1, 2027.

The dates and the money

There is no reminder you can rely on. Sunbiz sends courtesy notices to the email address on file, but if that address is stale—or the message lands in spam—your first notice may be the late fee itself.

  • Filing window: January 1 through May 1 each year
  • Filing fee: $138.75
  • Late fee for filing after May 1: $400, no grace period
  • Continued non-filing: administrative dissolution of the LLC

How to file in under ten minutes

If your registered agent, address, or management changed during the year, the annual report is also the moment to make it official—updating it here is usually cheaper than a separate amendment filing.

  • Go to Sunbiz and choose “File Annual Report” — you will need your document number from your original filing confirmation.
  • Review the prefilled entity details and correct anything that changed: addresses, registered agent, members or managers.
  • Confirm or update the email address on file, since that is where future notices go.
  • Pay the $138.75 fee and save the confirmation.

If you already missed the deadline

File immediately. The $400 late fee is fixed, but the real risk is dissolution: once the state administratively dissolves your LLC, you lose liability protection and the right to operate under the name, and reinstatement costs more money and paperwork.

If your LLC has already been dissolved, Florida allows reinstatement by filing the missing reports plus a reinstatement fee—but every year you wait adds another report and another fee. The cheapest day to fix it is today.

Sources and further reading

  1. 1.Division of Corporations fee scheduleFlorida Department of State
  2. 2.Sunbiz online filing portalFlorida Division of Corporations
  3. 3.How to Form an LLC in FloridaNolo