Florida LLC Annual Report on Sunbiz, Due by May 1
A Florida LLC’s annual report is filed on Sunbiz between January 1 and May 1, whatever month it was formed, for $138.75. From May 2 it costs $538.75; an LLC still unfiled after the third Friday of September is dissolved on the fourth.
Florida report calendar: what’s due on your date
File the Florida Annual Report Online: What Sunbiz Asks For
Sunbiz is the Florida Department of State’s Division of Corporations site, and its annual report page opens with the company’s document number. The form “updates or confirms” the Division’s records, and Sunbiz adds that the report “is not a financial statement”: no revenue, balance sheet or member list. To file the annual report, have these ready:
- Document number
- The 6- or 12-digit number assigned at formation, printed on the Division’s notices and listed in Florida business entity search results next to each company name.
- FEIN
- The company’s 9-digit federal number, never a Social Security number.
- Principal and mailing addresses
- A P.O. box is accepted for the mailing address only.
- Registered agent
- A Florida street address. A new agent signs the report to accept the role.
- At least one principal
- A manager, member or authorized representative, with name and address.
- The filing confirmation goes to the entity’s current email address on file; if the report changes that address, the Department notifies both the old and the new one (F.S. 605.0210(2)).
Sunbiz states that information submitted on an annual report becomes part of the public record. The report can change the agent, the addresses, the people listed and the FEIN, but not the company’s name, which takes an amendment form.
- Enter the document number on the annual report page.
- Check each prefilled field and correct what has changed.
- Type your name in the signature block; Sunbiz accepts a typed name as the signature.
- Pay by one of the two methods below; a check is made payable to the Florida Department of State.
Visa, MasterCard, American Express or Discover, a debit card, or a prepaid Sunbiz E-File account; the report posts at once. Card payments are receipted by noreply@finit.tylertech.com, and the bank statement reads “NIC DOS DIVISION OF CORP”.
The form is still completed online, and the voucher goes in the envelope, postmarked by May 1. Check payments are processed in the order received.
A letter asking $125 for “Annual Minutes” or “Annual Corporate Record Forms” is not from the State: the Division’s solicitation notice says these forms “are not required by this office, or any other state or government agency.”
Why a Florida LLC Pays $138.75 for the Annual Report
Only $50 of it is the annual report fee set by the Florida Statutes (F.S. 605.0213(5)). The other $88.75 is the supplemental corporate fee that F.S. 607.193 charges every LLC, profit corporation and limited partnership authorized in Florida.
Nonprofit corporations don’t pay that fee, and a foreign LLC registered in Florida pays the same $138.75.
Annual report feeF.S. 605.0213(5)$50.00
Supplemental corporate feeF.S. 607.193(1)$88.75
Paid by May 1$138.75
Late charge from May 2F.S. 607.193(2)(b)+ $400.00
| Entity | By May 1 | From May 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LLC, domestic or foreign | $138.75 | $538.75 |
| Profit corporation | $150.00 | $550.00 |
| Nonprofit corporation | $61.25 | $61.25, no late charge |
| Limited partnership (LP or LLLP) | $500.00 | $900.00 |
May 2: the Flat $400 Late Charge
The charge is one flat $400, the same on May 2 as in September, added to the report fee: $538.75 for an LLC. It attaches to the supplemental corporate fee, so nonprofit corporations owe no late charge.
A late report is filed the same way, on the Sunbiz annual report page, and the $400 is added at payment.
The statute says the charge “shall be imposed” and sets no waiver procedure.
One exception is written into the same sentence of F.S. 607.193(2)(b): the $400 is not charged to an entity that was administratively dissolved for not filing and then applied for reinstatement and paid the reinstatement fee.
Dissolved on the Fourth Friday of September
The law sets the last filing time at 5:00 p.m. Eastern on the third Friday of September and the dissolution on the fourth (F.S. 605.0714). For 2026, Sunbiz took the last check payment on the third Friday and card payments until 5:00 p.m. on the fourth.
| Year | No late charge until | Third Friday | Dissolution (4th Friday) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | Saturday, May 1 | September 17 | September 24 |
| 2028 | Monday, May 1 | September 15 | September 22 |
| 2029 | Tuesday, May 1 | September 21 | September 28 |
- While dissolved
- The LLC may carry on only the activities needed to wind up its affairs (F.S. 605.0714(5)), and until its reports and fees are paid it can neither bring nor defend a lawsuit in a Florida court (F.S. 605.0212(6)).
- Reinstatement cost
- $100 plus $138.75 for each report year due. Filed at any time, it is effective retroactively to the dissolution (F.S. 605.0715(4)(a)).
- How to apply
- On Sunbiz’s reinstatement page, signed by both the registered agent and an authorized representative; a current annual report with the same two signatures and all fees due can take its place.
- The name
- Held for only one year after dissolution (F.S. 605.0715). If another business has lawfully taken it, the LLC must amend its articles to change its name before the application is accepted.
One late report filed before dissolution: the company stays active throughout.
Reinstatement before January 1 for that one missed year ($100 plus one $138.75 report): no $400, but the months of dissolution are limited to winding up, and anyone who relied on the dissolution keeps those rights.
From January 1 the next year’s report is due too: $377.50 for two report years.
Is the Florida Annual Report the LLC Renewal?
Yes. Filing the report by May 1 each year is what keeps a Florida LLC active on Sunbiz; there is no other yearly filing with the Division for it.
The $125 on the Division’s LLC fee list, sometimes taken for a yearly renewal, is paid once, at formation ($100 for the articles plus $25 for the registered agent designation).
Penalties for an Unregistered Foreign LLC in Florida
An LLC formed elsewhere that transacts business in Florida without a certificate of authority owes the fees and penalties it would have paid had it registered, plus a civil penalty of $500 to $1,000 for each year or part of a year (F.S. 605.0904).
- Lawsuits
- It cannot bring one in a Florida court until it registers, though its contracts stay valid and it can still defend itself.
- Members and managers
- Not personally liable for that reason alone.
- Service of process
- The Department of State becomes its agent in lawsuits over its Florida business.
- Once registered
- The same $138.75 report every year, from the year after it obtains its certificate of authority (F.S. 605.0212(3)).
Before the First Report and After Filing
First report: the calendar year after formation
Between January 1 and May 1 of the year after the articles took effect (F.S. 605.0212(3)). An LLC that took effect on December 15, 2026 files its first report by May 1, 2027, less than five months later; one that took effect on January 2, 2026 also files in 2027.
An LLC that was never used
An LLC shown as Active on Sunbiz files the report whether or not it did business. Sunbiz requires no report once the company is closed with articles of dissolution, a $25 filing.
Amended report and certificate of status
A second report filed in the same year counts as an amended report: $50 for an LLC. A certificate of status, Florida’s proof of good standing, can be added to the report for $5.
