Pennsylvania LLC Annual Report on Form DSCB:15‑146, Filed Each Year by September 30
A Pennsylvania limited liability company files its annual report, Form DSCB:15‑146, with the Pennsylvania Department of State from January 1 to September 30 of every year after the one it was formed in. The fee is $7, or $0 with a not-for-profit purpose, and an online report is approved within minutes.
Earlier years are counted as filed.
Act 122 of 2022 Ended the Decennial Report
Before 2025, Pennsylvania had no yearly report, only what the Department calls the long-time decennial report. Act 122 of 2022 repealed that decennial report requirement for associations and replaced it with the yearly report under 15 Pa.C.S. § 146, a requirement that began on January 1, 2025.
Until 2024
Decennial report
Repealed by Act 122 for associations; still kept for insignia and marks used with articles or supplies.
Since 2025
Annual report, $7
Form DSCB:15‑146, every year, for domestic LLCs and foreign LLCs registered in the Commonwealth.
Some 50-state tables still list Pennsylvania at $70. That is not the LLC fee: on the Department’s fee schedule, the LLC report is $7, and $70 belongs to other lines, such as a benefit corporation’s annual report.
Pennsylvania LLC Annual Fee: $7, and the Costs That Start at Reinstatement
The $7 is charged once a year, online or on paper. The Department’s August 27, 2026 scam alert puts it in one line: “There is no state late fee for filing past the deadline.” The charges below appear only when an LLC has to come back from dissolution.
| Filing | Filing fee |
|---|---|
| Annual report, for-profit LLC | $7 |
| Annual report, LLC with a not-for-profit purpose | $0 |
| Report filed after September 30 | $7 |
| Annual Report Update (change in information), same calendar year | $0 |
| Application for reinstatement, online / on paper | $35 / $40 |
| Each annual report not previously paid, at reinstatement | $15 |
| New foreign registration after a termination | $250 |
| Subsistence certificate (good standing) | $40 |
There is no fee waiver for veteran- or reservist-owned businesses on this report, according to the Department’s FAQ, and fees are not refunded when a filing is rejected.
Which Deadline Applies: September 30 Is the LLC Date
Pennsylvania sets one window per type of association, not per formation date. Pennsylvania LLCs and foreign LLCs registered there share the same September 30 cutoff.
- CorporationsJune 30business and nonprofit
- LLCsSeptember 30limited liability companies, domestic or foreign
- Other associationsDecember 31limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, business trusts, professional associations
The first report is owed in the calendar year following formation. An LLC formed on December 28, 2026 files nothing in 2026 and owes its first report between January 1 and September 30, 2027; one formed in 2023 owed its first report in 2025, the year the requirement began.
Because September 30 is a fixed date rather than the end of a period, it is unclear whether 1 Pa.C.S. § 1908 moves it off a weekend; filing on the last business day before is safe.
Filing DSCB:15‑146 on Business Filing Services
No PIN is needed to file the annual report itself: anyone with a Business Filing Services account can open the LLC from the public business search and file. Online, the form fills in the details already on record.
- Sign in through the PA Business Hub with a Keystone Login; an existing Keystone account from another state service works.
- Open file.dos.pa.gov, choose Search, find the LLC and click File Annual Report; the Pennsylvania business entity search lists the same status and the entity number the form asks for.
- Confirm the registered office (or the commercial registered office provider) and the principal office address.
- List at least one governor; for an LLC, that is a manager or a member with a material role in management.
- Check the $7 fee, tick the declarations and sign with the signer’s title, dated today.
- Pay by card. The approved report and acknowledgment letter can be downloaded from the Form tab within minutes.
The answers describe the LLC on the filing day, not as they stood last December, and the report asks for no revenue or other financial figure. Adding an email address on the first screen signs the LLC up for the Department’s courtesy reminders.
An online report is processed automatically when it is submitted, while a mailed report counts on the day the Department receives it, not the postmark.
Mailing the paper form instead
- Form
- DSCB:15‑146 (PDF), nine numbered items, typed or in black or blue-black ink.
- Payment
- Check to the PA Department of State, with a pre-printed name and address. The Bureau does not take cash.
- Address
- Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations, P.O. Box 8722, Harrisburg, PA 17105‑8722.
- Processing
- Date-stamped on receipt and handled with that day's work; the filed copy comes back by mail. A report missing a required item is returned for correction, and paper filings are never expedited.
From 2027, an Unfiled Report Can Dissolve the LLC
Act 122 gave associations a transition period: a report missed in 2025 or 2026 does not lead to dissolution, though the public business search shows whether the LLC is compliant. Beginning with the 2027 annual reports, a failure to file lets the Department act six months after the due date.
- September 30, 2027
Last day for the 2027 report.
- March 30, 2028
Six months later, counted under 1 Pa.C.S. § 1910. A domestic LLC becomes subject to administrative dissolution; a foreign LLC's registration to termination.
- Once the Department files the dissolution
Beyond reinstatement, the law lets it do only what closing down requires; it cannot get a subsistence certificate, and another filer can take its name.
Formed in Pennsylvania
The LLC keeps its entity number, and reinstatement has no time limit. The application is $35 online or $40 on paper, with $15 added for each annual report never paid. It reaches back to the dissolution date, except for a name someone else registered in between.
Registered from elsewhere
A terminated foreign LLC cannot reinstate. It files a new Foreign Registration Statement ($250), receives a new entity number, and the new registration does not reach back to cover the time in between.
A domestic professional LLC that reinstates also owes the Certificates of Annual Registration, fees and penalties for the whole period it spent dissolved.
Mailers the Department of State Flagged in 2025 and 2026
Flagged by the Department of State
June 11, 2025: a “Pennsylvania Annual Report” mailing from New Business Filing LLC, pointing to busfile.org and a QR code, charging $175.
August 27, 2026: National Filing Corp, $136 for an LLC and $171 for a corporation, a corporate price it says includes a “$35.00 state late fee” that does not exist.
Both are listed on the Department’s business scam alerts page. No PIN is needed, so anyone the LLC hires can file it; the state’s own charge stays $7.
The genuine notice comes at least two months before September 30, as a postcard to the registered office street address. LLCs that use a commercial registered office provider get no postcard; the provider receives a spreadsheet of its clients instead. A missing postcard does not excuse a missing report.
REV‑238, BOI and the CAR Are Separate Filings
- REV‑238, the out-of-existence affidavit sent to the Department of Revenue, does not close the LLC at the Department of State: the two records are not linked. Without a Certificate of Termination, the LLC stays Active and keeps owing reports.
- The Department’s FAQ also keeps the annual report apart from FinCEN’s federal beneficial ownership (BOI) reporting: one does not stand in for the other.
- A restricted professional company (PLLC) still files the Certificate of Annual Registration, Form DSCB:15‑8221/8998 (at least $500 on the fee schedule), by April 15, on top of the annual report.
A status of Inactive in any form (Dissolved, Terminated, Merged Out, Withdrawn) means no annual report is required, while any Active status means one is.
