Louisiana LLC Annual Report: the Anniversary Deadline and the Three‑Year Clock

What Act 921 Changed: the $35 Louisiana LLC Annual Report Fee

Act 921 of the 2026 Regular Session raised the Commercial Division’s fees on October 1, 2026, and the annual report went from $30 to $35 for every LLC, Louisiana or out-of-state alike. Reports filed before that day were billed at $30 under R.S. 49:222.

The schedule has no late fee, and the LLC law doesn’t add one. A report filed after the anniversary carries the same $35 filing fee; lateness shows up on the record instead.

The Day the Articles Were Filed Sets the Date, Not the Month

R.S. 12:1308.1, part of the Limited Liability Company Law, sets the deadline as the anniversary date of organization, so an LLC registered on March 18, 2025 has its first report due by March 18, 2026, and another by every March 18 after it.

1. Feb 18, 2026

   Four weeks out: the printable form appears on the coraweb record.

2. Mar 18, 2026

   First anniversary, last day to file.

3. Mar 19, 2026

   Unfiled: the record turns not in good standing.

4. Mar 18, 2028

   Third anniversary unfiled in a row, a Saturday: a Baton Rouge legal holiday under R.S. 1:55, so file by Friday, March 17.

Date to use

The record labels it Registration Date, and the Louisiana business entity search opens that record by name or charter number. An LLC formed elsewhere reads its Qualified date instead.

February 29

A February 29 registration has no anniversary in common years; February 28 is the reading that can’t be late.

Period covered

None. The report states the registered office, agents and managers as they stand on the day it's filed, so it's neither retroactive nor prepaid.

Filing Through geauxBIZ With the Charter Number

geauxBIZ lists the annual report under its Maintain menu, next to renewals and reinstatements, and asks for an account and the LLC’s nine‑character charter number. Older guides describe a Renewal ID from a mailed notice, entered on a Secretary of State page that no longer loads.

1. Sign in, or create an account and verify the email address (messages come from donotreply@sos.la.gov).
2. On the dashboard, choose Getting Started, then the option to file an amendment, such as an annual report.
3. Enter the charter number, then click File Annual Report on the business’s details page.
4. Check each address and name, sign, and pay $35 (plus $5 by card).

A draft stays in My Filings for 14 days, a rejected report can be corrected and resubmitted within 14 days instead of starting over, and accepted documents stay downloadable for 120 days.

Three Addresses and the Names Behind Them

A manager or member signs in the LLC’s name, and R.S. 12:1308.1 also lets the registered agent sign. The Commercial Division’s FAQ makes the report a yearly requirement, changes or not.

Paper, Fax and the 14 Parishes That Must File Online

A paper report is printed from the LLC’s coraweb record once it’s within four weeks of the due date, then either mailed with payment by check or money order, addressed to the Commercial Division at P.O. Box 94125, Baton Rouge, LA 70804‑9125, or faxed to 225.932.5312.

The transmittal sheet revised in October 2026 closes that option in 14 parishes, where business owners must file every available document through geauxBIZ:

• Ascension
• Bossier
• Caddo
• Calcasieu
• East Baton Rouge
• Jefferson
• Lafayette
• Livingston
• Orleans
• Ouachita
• Rapides
• St. Tammany
• Tangipahoa
• Terrebonne

One Missed Anniversary Ends Good Standing, Three Open the Way to Revocation

From the day after the anniversary, the record reads not in good standing under R.S. 12:1308.2, and until the report is in, that status bars commercial business with state boards, agencies and commissions. A state contract the LLC holds can be declared null and void.

Revocation of the articles takes three consecutive years without a report. At least 30 days before it, the office mails its Notice of Intent to Revoke, addressed to the last registered agent of record (or to the registered office if there is none), and the FAQ gives 30 days from the notice’s date to get a completed report in.

Revocation doesn’t end lawsuits against the LLC or stop it from selling property it owns, under R.S. 12:1308.2(G).

What a Revoked Louisiana LLC Files to Return

Within three years of the revocation’s effective date, R.S. 12:1308.2(C) reinstates the articles once three items reach the office:

• An application for reinstatement signed and acknowledged by a member or manager. If a suit for liquidation or receivership is pending, every member or manager also consents in writing.
• The LLC’s current annual report.
• The reinstatement fee.

The fee schedule prices Articles of Reinstatement at $95 plus $35 for each annual report due, but on its corporation lines. Until September 30, 2026, an LLC paid the same $100 for reinstatement as for articles of organization, which now cost $125; with no LLC line published, confirm the total with the Commercial Division at 225.925.4704 before paying.

For those three years the name is held for the revoked LLC. A later reinstatement keeps it only if no one else has taken it; otherwise the LLC files an amendment changing its name under R.S. 12:1309.

Authority Granted in Louisiana Starts the Clock for an LLC Formed Elsewhere

An LLC formed elsewhere, a foreign LLC in the statute’s words, reports on or before the anniversary of its qualification in Louisiana under R.S. 12:1350.1, not of its formation at home. Its report adds the registered office in the home jurisdiction, the principal office outside Louisiana and the principal business establishment in the state, and a member or manager signs it.

The three-year rule is for Louisiana LLCs only. Under R.S. 12:1353, one delinquent report can cost the LLC its certificate of authority, and the agent in Louisiana keeps accepting service of process afterward.

Changing the Agent or Managers on the Report Instead of a $30 Form

When the annual report is due or past due, the Secretary of State lets the LLC change its registered agent or its members and managers on the report itself. Outside that period the same change goes on Form 983, Change of Registered Office or Agent, or Form 983A for members and managers, $30 each since October 1, 2026.