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.
