Georgia LLC Annual Registration: The $60 Renewal Due April 1
Between January 1 and April 1 each year, a Georgia LLC renews by filing its annual registration, the state’s name for the annual report, at the Georgia Secretary of State. It costs $60 online or on paper, starting the calendar year after formation, and georgia.gov lists it under “Renew an LLC.”
What your Georgia LLC owes on its annual registration
Amounts from the Corporations Division fee schedule effective September 6, 2025, and O.C.G.A. § 14-11-1101. eCorp shows the final balance before payment.
What Goes on a Georgia LLC’s Annual Registration
Under O.C.G.A. § 14-11-1103, each limited liability company’s registration gives its name and home jurisdiction, its registered agent with the street address and county of the registered office, and the mailing address of its principal place of business.
Every entry must be current on the signing date, which makes the filing the yearly chance to update the agent or the address at no extra cost.
- Find the LLC
- Its control number or its exact name. Both online routes start there.
- Registered agent
- The name and address of the registered agent: a physical street address in Georgia where an individual can be found in person.
- Principal office
- The mailing address of the principal place of business.
- Filer and email
- The name of the person filing. A valid email address is required; eCorp sends the filed registration and the receipt there.
- Members and managers
- Not asked. The Secretary of State’s FAQ notes that Georgia LLC law requires only the registered agent, so a change of members has nothing to update here.
A Georgia corporation also pays $60 in the same January 1 to April 1 window, but its corporate annual registration lists its CEO, CFO and secretary, names an LLC’s registration never asks for.
One Click, an eCorp Account or the Paper Form
The Secretary of State’s eCorp site offers two online routes. One Click Annual Registration needs no login and changes nothing, and it accepts only an LLC that is current on all fees; an LLC that skipped a year logs in and files through Online Services instead.
| Route | Fits when | Payment and turnaround |
|---|---|---|
| One Click Annual Registration | Nothing changes and no earlier year is unpaid | Card. Processed immediately, registration and receipt sent by email. |
| eCorp Online Services (login) | New agent or address, back years, a late penalty to pay | Card. Processed immediately, filings and receipts kept in the account dashboard. |
| Printed annual registration form by mail | Paying by check or money order | Postmark by April 1. Georgia.gov puts the mailed registration and receipt at 3 to 4 weeks. |
Checks must be pre-printed with a full address; counter and starter checks are refused, and so is cash. A mailed or hand-delivered registration can be reviewed within two business days for an extra $60.
The Corporations Division sits at 2 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Suite 313, Floyd West Tower, in Atlanta, where hand-delivered filings can also be paid by card. Mail the form to the address printed on it.
The $10 Service Charge Inside the $60 Fee
O.C.G.A. § 14-11-1101 sets the annual registration fee at $50. The Corporations Division fee schedule effective September 6, 2025 adds a $10 service charge to that line on both routes, so an LLC pays $60 online and $60 on paper. Fee tables that show $50 for Georgia leave the charge out.
- Annual registration$60$50 filing fee + $10 service charge
- Late penalty$25No service charge on top
- Amended annual registration$30$20 fee + $10, for changes after filing
- Reinstatement$260$250 fee + $10
- Certificate of existence$20$10 fee + $10, the “good standing” certificate
None of it comes back. The Secretary of State has no authority to rescind a filed registration or refund its fee, and an error is fixed only by filing another registration or an amended one.
Georgia.gov and a few answers in the Corporations Division FAQ still describe the $10 as a mail-only charge. The fee schedule effective September 6, 2025 and the reinstatement guide apply it to online and paper filings alike.
Paying for Two or Three Years at Once
eCorp lets an LLC register for the current year alone, for two consecutive years or for three. Georgia.gov confirms that nothing is due on April 1 while a multi-year registration covers the year.
Prepaying fits an LLC that expects to keep its agent and address. A change during a covered year still costs an amended registration at $30, and the Secretary of State states that fees paid for an annual registration are non-refundable.
The First Registration and Foreign LLCs
Under § 14-11-1103(c), the first registration falls in the January 1 to April 1 window of the calendar year after formation, whatever day of that year the LLC was formed.
For a foreign LLC, the clock starts with the year Georgia authorized it to transact business, not the year it was formed at home. It owes the same $60 and the same April 1 date; when it stops filing, Georgia revokes its certificate of authority instead of dissolving it.
After April 1: a $25 Penalty and a Slow Road to Dissolution
Missing April 1 costs $25 right away. Dissolution takes longer, because Georgia law sets two separate 60-day periods before the Secretary of State can sign a certificate of dissolution.
- April 2
The $25 late fee applies. Mailed registrations had to be postmarked by April 1.
- May 31
Day 60 after the due date. From the next day the Secretary of State may open an administrative dissolution.
- Notice mailed
A Notice of Administrative Dissolution goes first class to the principal office or the registered agent, with its response date printed on it.
- 60 days after the notice
Registrations, fees and penalties still unpaid: the LLC is administratively dissolved.
The eCorp business search can show the warning. The Corporations Division FAQ: “If the status reads ‘active/noncompliance,’ then the entity will be administrative dissolved or revoked this year.”
Section 14-11-603 limits a dissolved LLC to winding up its business, and the dissolution leaves its registered agent’s authority in place.
Five Years to Reinstate a Dissolved Georgia LLC, for $260
A dissolved Georgia LLC can apply for reinstatement within five years of the dissolution’s effective date, on eCorp or with the printed application described in the reinstatement guide. The fee is $260 ($250 plus $10), on top of the registrations that cure the missed filing. Once granted, the reinstatement takes effect as of the dissolution date, so the LLC’s existence shows no break.
- The LLC’s name and the effective date of its dissolution.
- A statement that the ground for dissolution has been eliminated.
- A statement that all taxes owed by the LLC have been paid.
- The signature of the registered agent, or of a member or manager named on the most recent annual registration. Anyone else attaches a notarized statement from a person who held that role at dissolution, or from an heir, successor or assign.
Online applications are generally processed within 7 to 10 business days and paper ones within 15; a two-day review adds $120 and same-day review adds $275. For those five years the name stays reserved for the LLC, after which anyone can file under it and reinstatement is no longer possible.
An LLC formed outside Georgia can’t be reinstated. After a revocation it files a new application for a certificate of authority, $235 under the current fee schedule.
A Certificate of Termination Needs Current Registrations
A certificate of termination costs nothing online ($10 on paper, the service charge), but the Secretary of State accepts it only from an LLC that is current on every registration already due, late penalties included. An LLC that was administratively dissolved has to be reinstated before it can terminate voluntarily, so the $260 comes first.
