Colorado LLC Annual Report, Filed as the Periodic Report
Colorado’s LLC annual report is the Periodic Report, filed online with the Secretary of State for $25 in a five-month window set by the LLC’s report month. Two late months cost $75; after that the LLC turns Delinquent until a $100 cure.
Month-end dates as the Secretary of State’s FAQs give them, with no weekend shift. The record’s History and Documents page shows the real ones.
Report Month, Due Date and the Two Late Months
The Periodic Report comes due at the end of the second month following the report month, not at the end of the report month itself. The Periodic Report FAQ says it “can be filed two months prior to the Periodic Report month or two months after without any penalty.” With a January report month, that runs from November 1 through March 31, the due date the delinquency FAQ gives.
On April 1 that LLC turns Noncompliant and owes the $50 late penalty on top of the $25. The noncompliance FAQ allows sixty more days, and the delinquency FAQ’s January example runs them to May 31; an LLC that has filed nothing by then becomes Delinquent.
The month to rely on is the one under “Periodic report month” on the Summary page of the record, reached through the Secretary of State’s business database search or a Colorado LLC search by name.
- Colorado LLC
- The month its articles of organization took effect, under C.R.S. 7-90-501(4)(c)(I). The first report falls in the following year, so the articles filed when starting a Colorado LLC fix the month.
- Foreign LLC
- The month its statement of foreign entity authority took effect in Colorado, not its formation date in its home state.
- After a cure or reinstatement
- The same statute replaces the old month with the month of the cure or the reinstatement; the next report month comes a year later.
From the Business Search to the Receipt Page
The Periodic Report FAQ says the report “must be filed electronically,” and the fee schedule lists no paper fee, so there is no form to mail. A Colorado corporation, a nonprofit corporation or a foreign entity files the same Periodic Report for the same $25.
- Search the business database by the 11-digit ID number or the name, then open the record’s Summary page.
- Scroll down to File a form, then pick File a Periodic Report on the Documents Available for Filing page. The option shows only inside the window and only for a status that allows a report.
- Check the prefilled fields, update the office address or the registered agent if needed, and click Submit.
- A review page follows, and the report is not filed yet. Pay now, at the bottom of the screen, opens the payment pages (three of them); on the payment screen, click Pay now a single time.
- The filing is complete when the Receipt page appears. The confirmation carries a PDF of the report marked “E-FILED” with the filing date, document number and amount paid.
A report filed online updates the record at once, and a Noncompliant LLC returns to Good Standing on filing. If the screen stays put after Pay now, the e-filing FAQ says to look for error messages; it names browser auto-fill and the back button as causes of failed or timed-out filings.
Inside the Colorado Periodic Report: What Can Change and What Is Locked
| Field | What it takes |
|---|---|
| ID number, entity name, jurisdiction locked | Prefilled from the record. The report cannot change the name. |
| Principal office street address | Required, and it must be a physical address: a post office box is refused here. |
| Principal office mailing address | Only if mail goes elsewhere or can’t be delivered to the street address. The form’s own example is a P.O. box in Lakewood. |
| Registered agent name and street address | Can be changed in the report at no extra cost. The state field is prefilled with “CO”, and the street address cannot be a P.O. box. |
| Registered agent mailing address | A separate mailing address, which may be a P.O. box but must also be in Colorado. |
| Email notification | Signs the record up for due-date emails and text messages. |
| Individual causing delivery | Last name, first name and mailing address of at least one person. |
Members and managers are not on the report. Between two reports, a new address or agent goes on a Statement of Change, a $10 filing.
Individual Registered Agents: Colorado ID Check or Proof of Residency
An individual named as registered agent, in the Periodic Report or any other filing, is identified by a Colorado driver’s license or ID card number. The Secretary of State checks that number against DMV records, a step the registered agent FAQ ties to a 2024 change in Colorado law.
Someone without a Colorado license or ID can still serve. The filer requests a registered agent passcode and uploads one document showing a Colorado street address, such as a utility bill or bank statement; review takes a few business days, and the passcode expires 45 calendar days after it is issued.
The check relies on data from the Division of Motor Vehicles, part of the Colorado Department of Revenue. When a license can’t be verified through it, the FAQ says the office may review the request in limited situations. The ID rule covers individuals only: a business entity named as agent must instead be in good standing and have a usual place of business in Colorado.
What Delinquent Status Does to a Colorado LLC, and the $100 Cure
A missed Periodic Report does not dissolve a Colorado LLC. Under C.R.S. 7-90-903 its existence continues and its registered agent stays in place, but a Delinquent LLC cannot sue to collect its debts in Colorado courts until it cures. In many other states the same miss leads to administrative dissolution, as the table of each state’s annual report consequences shows.
The way back is a Statement Curing Delinquency, $100 online, which restates the principal office address and the registered agent. The month of the cure becomes the new report month. Three dates count from the day the LLC became Delinquent:
- 400 daysThe name stays reserved. On day 401 it gains the word “delinquent” and the date, and the original name is open to others.
- 3 yearsA manager may dissolve the LLC with a Statement of Dissolution of Delinquent Entity ($10), after notice to the members.
- 5 yearsThe cure also needs a statement under penalty of perjury, an affidavit of authority and a government photo ID, reviewed by the office, with no refund if rejected.
When another business has taken the name by the time of the cure, the LLC comes back under its name followed by “delinquency cured” and the date. Reinstatement, also $100, is reserved for an LLC that was dissolved; the reinstatement FAQ sends a Delinquent LLC to the cure instead.
What Colorado LLC Annual Fees Add Up To
Filed on time, a Colorado LLC owes the Colorado Secretary of State one yearly fee: the $25 Periodic Report. The other lines of the fee schedule apply only after a miss or a change, and none of these has a paper fee.
| Periodic ReportInside the five-month window | $25 |
| Periodic Report late filing penaltyAdded while Noncompliant | $50 |
| Statement Curing Delinquency | $100 |
| ReinstatementDissolved LLC only | $100 |
| Statement of Change, registered agentOutside the report | $10 |
| Statement of Dissolution of Delinquent Entity | $10 |
| Certificate of Good Standing | Free |
The report cost $10 from 2006, when filing moved online, until it rose to $25 on July 1, 2024 (announcement of June 17, 2024). A source still quoting $10 predates that change.
Reminder Emails Only, and Letters That Look Official
The Secretary of State stopped mailing postcards on January 1, 2012. Reminders go only to subscribers, through Subscribe to Email Notification on the Summary page or the option offered in an online filing: one email about a week before the report month, another about a week before the two months after it run out.
Those emails usually go out on the 23rd or 24th. They announce either a Periodic Report or a renewal, and an LLC only gets the first: renewals on the Colorado fee schedule are for trade names, trademarks, reserved names and registrations of true name.
The email notification FAQ leaves the LLC “responsible for tracking the filing dates and filing on time whether you receive an email or not,” and C.R.S. 7-90-403 says a notice that never arrives excuses nothing.
Letters asking for a fee, mentioning the Periodic Report or annual minutes and dressed up as state notices, are the subject of the office’s solicitation alerts, which name past examples:
Questions about a letter go to sos.business@coloradosos.gov or to 303-894-2200, option 2.
