When the Illinois LLC Annual Report Is Due, and What It Costs Late
The Illinois LLC annual report is due before the first day of the anniversary month and costs $75, plus $50 per series. Annual report filing opens 60 days earlier. On the first of that month the LLC loses good standing, and $100 is added two months later.
Your Illinois annual report dates
Month filed: when the State filed the articles (for a foreign LLC, its admission).
This cycle
The Anniversary Month, the 60-Day Window and the Prefilled Form
Under the Limited Liability Company Act (805 ILCS 180/1-5), the anniversary month is the month the Illinois Secretary of State (ILSOS) filed the articles of organization (for a foreign LLC, its application for admission), not the date they were signed or mailed. The report has to arrive in the 60 days before the first day of that month.
The prefilled report goes to the registered agent roughly six weeks ahead of the due date (Secretary of State guide C-334). The first report falls due 11 to 12 months after formation. For articles filed on March 15, 2026, the dates fall like this:
A report mailed before the first day of the month counts as on time if the mailing can be proven. A report sent back for correction carries no late penalty if it returns corrected within 60 days of the original due date (805 ILCS 180/50-1).
Filing Online or on Form LLC-50.1
The Secretary of State’s fee list has no renewal for the LLC itself: its two renewals are for names, an assumed name (Form LLC-1.20, $150) and a foreign LLC’s registered name (Form LLC-45.20, $50). The LLC stays in good standing through this annual report, filed online or on paper.
Online, in real time
The online annual report takes Visa, Mastercard, Discover or American Express. A payment processor fee is added to the $75, and its amount is not posted.
Once the report is accepted, a Certificate of Good Standing can be bought online for $25 and printed at once.
On paper, Form LLC-50.1
The online filing instructions send these LLCs to the paper Form LLC-50.1:
- administratively dissolved or revoked
- withdrawn, terminated or expired
- more than eight managers
- managers not qualified to transact business in Illinois
- a change of name, duration, purpose, agent or registered office
- signing through layered signatures or a power of attorney
Mail it to the Department of Business Services, Limited Liability Division, 501 S. Second St., Rm. 351, Springfield, IL 62756, with a check payable to the Secretary of State.
Either way, the report lists the registered office and agent, the principal place of business (a post office box alone is refused), and each manager, or member with a manager’s authority, with a business address. A manager signs, or a member the members designate if there is no manager. The prefilled form shows the LLC’s file number, and so does an Illinois LLC lookup.
LLC vs. Corporation: Two Illinois Annual Reports, One $75 Fee
Illinois corporations don’t use the LLC report or the tool above. The corporate annual report is a separate corporation annual report filing under the Business Corporation Act, due in the same 60‑day window before the corporation’s own anniversary month, for the same $75 annual report fee.
Filling out the corporate report takes figures an LLC never gives, and the franchise tax is paid with it:
| LLC | Corporation | |
|---|---|---|
| Statute | 805 ILCS 180/50-1 | 805 ILCS 5/14.05 |
| Filing fee | $75, plus $50 per series | $75 |
| Tax paid with the report | None | Franchise tax: for a domestic corporation, 1/10 of 1% of paid-in capital, or of the part allocated to Illinois when the report gives the property and business figures; the first $10,000 of tax has been exempt since January 1, 2025 |
| What the report lists | Managers, or members with a manager’s authority | Directors and officers, authorized and issued shares, paid-in capital, and EEO-1 workforce data for a corporation that files an EEO-1 report |
| Returned for correction | Back within 60 days of the original due date | Back within 30 days of the date it was returned |
Not in Good Standing on Day One, $100 Two Months Later
Illinois sanctions a late report in steps set by 805 ILCS 180/50-15 and 35-30, counted here for a March anniversary month:
| Date | What happens | Owed |
|---|---|---|
| March 1 | Delinquent and not in good standing. The Secretary of State files no other document for the LLC, and no Certificate of Good Standing can be bought, until the report is in. | $75 |
| May 1 | First day of the second month after the anniversary month: the late penalty applies. | $175 |
| From the second year | Another $100 for each year or fraction of a year still unfiled. | +$100 a year |
| Notice + 120 days | After a notice of delinquency mailed to the registered office, an LLC still missing its report is administratively dissolved. | See below |
The paper form describes the penalty as applying “if this report is not filed within 60 days after the due date”; the statute’s first‑of‑the‑second‑month date is the rule. A missing registered agent or a payment returned unpaid leads to dissolution faster, 60 days after the notice.
Coming Back From Dissolution: $200 and No Deadline
Reinstatement takes Form LLC-35.40/45.65, which the form says to submit in duplicate, paid by certified check, cashier’s check, money order, or an Illinois attorney’s or CPA’s check. Every report and penalty due goes with it, so one missed report costs at least:
- Reinstatement fee$200
- The missed report$75
- Late penalty$100
- At least$375
- No deadline
- The LLC Act sets no time limit for reinstating (805 ILCS 180/35-40).
- No gap
- Reinstatement ratifies what the LLC did while dissolved, and no member or manager becomes personally liable for that period’s debts because of the dissolution (805 ILCS 180/35-40).
- Name held 3 years
- No other company can take the name for three years after the notice of dissolution; an LLC reinstated within that time keeps it.
- Foreign LLC
- Its admission can be revoked for a missed report, and it comes back with the same form.
