Colorado LLC periodic report

Unlike California (whose window opens five months BEFORE the registration month), Colorado opens its three-month Periodic Report window ON the first day of your anniversary month and gives you that entire month plus the next two full calendar months. You cannot file a Periodic Report before the first day of your Periodic Report month.

That forward-rolling structure means autumn formations cross New Year Day: an October LLC files between October 1 and December 31; a November LLC files between November 1 and January 31; and a December LLC files between December 1 and February 28 (or February 29 in a leap year). No Periodic Report is due in the year of initial formation—your first window opens on the first anniversary month one year after formation.

Note that Colorado allows an entity to voluntarily designate a different "Periodic Report month" if desired through an appropriate filing, so if an older LLC ever changed its report month, always check "Periodic Report Month" on the entity Summary page at coloradosos.gov.

Colorado uses a crystal-clear, automated status ladder rather than administrative dissolution. While your LLC is current—including throughout all three months of your open Periodic Report window—your public status reads "Good Standing."

If 11:59 PM Mountain Time passes on the final day of the third month without a filed Periodic Report, your status immediately becomes "Noncompliant" on the next day. A Noncompliant LLC can still file its late Periodic Report online during the following two calendar months, but the portal automatically adds the $50 late penalty to the $25 filing fee ($75 total). Banks and SBA lenders routinely freeze closings the instant a Colorado entity flips to Noncompliant.

If those two extra Noncompliant months also expire without filing (meaning five full months have elapsed since the first day of your Periodic Report month), your status changes to "Delinquent." A Delinquent LLC can no longer file a Periodic Report; instead, to return to Good Standing it must file a Statement Curing Delinquency online for $100.

The Colorado Secretary of State operates a 100% paperless business registry for Periodic Reports. To file, search your LLC name or 11-digit Colorado Secretary of State ID number (formatted YYYYxxxxxxx, starting with the four-digit formation year) on sos.state.co.us/pubs/business/businessHome.html, open the Summary page, click "File a form," and select "Periodic Report."

Inside the form, you verify or update your Principal Office street and mailing addresses, and your Colorado Registered Agent name and Colorado street address. Conveniently, updating your Registered Agent or Principal Office address right inside the Periodic Report carries no extra state fee beyond the $25 Periodic Report fee.

Colorado also offers free email/text status alerts on the entity Summary page, though owners who change domains or miss automated agency blasts often use an independent checklist and 30/7/1-day schedule so the end of the three-month window never sneaks past.

First, pull up your LLC Summary page using your 11-digit Colorado ID number and check two exact lines: "Status" (Good Standing vs. Noncompliant vs. Delinquent) and "Periodic Report Month."

Second, check whether Secure Business Filing (password/email access protection) is enabled on your Colorado entity record—if you enabled it previously to prevent unauthorized third-party filings, have your authorized credentials ready.

Third, confirm that your Colorado Registered Agent is an individual Colorado resident or an authorized entity with a physical street address in Colorado (not a P.O. Box).

Fourth, pay the $25 fee online directly on coloradosos.gov and download the stamped Periodic Report PDF from your entity History and Documents tab (all Colorado business filings become downloadable public PDFs immediately upon acceptance).

Colorado does not impose an annual entity-level minimum franchise tax like California $800 tax or Delaware $400 LLC tax—making Colorado $25 Periodic Report one of the lowest annual LLC maintenance costs in the United States. However, the Secretary of State Periodic Report is still completely separate from Colorado Department of Revenue (Revenue Online) tax obligations.

Pass-through income taxes for Colorado members, Colorado retail sales tax licenses, state wage withholding, and Denver or home-rule city occupational privilege taxes (head taxes) are administered by state and municipal tax offices, not by the Secretary of State. Filing your Colorado income tax return never files your $25 Periodic Report.

Conversely, a holding LLC with $0 revenue and no Colorado tax return requirement still owes the $25 Periodic Report every year to stay in Good Standing.

Ironically, three-month windows cause procrastination: an owner sees a notice on the 1st of month one, thinks "I have ninety days," archives the email, and remembers four months later when a bank flags Noncompliant status and the $25 fee has jumped to $75 or $100.

Watch out as well for private mailers offering to file your Colorado Periodic Report for $150+. The official state fee is $25 online on coloradosos.gov and takes less than five minutes.

Our paid PDF checklist prints your exact three-month Colorado window (both opening day and final closing day), the $25 online fee, the $50 Noncompliant penalty and $100 Delinquency cure rules, your 11-digit Colorado ID, and the explicit line stating you pay the state yourself. Our $39 yearly plan sends reminders 30, 7, and 1 day before your window closes.

An out-of-state LLC registered via a Statement of Foreign Entity Authority in Colorado follows the exact same three-month Periodic Report window, $25 online fee, $50 Noncompliant late penalty, and $100 Statement Curing Delinquency structure, anchored to the month its Statement of Foreign Entity Authority took effect in Colorado.

Remember that while an entity is Delinquent in Colorado, it may not maintain a proceeding in a Colorado court until it cures delinquency, and after prolonged delinquency its trade or entity name gets appended with a delinquent date tag so other businesses can claim the clean name.

If your Colorado LLC also registered one or more Statement of Trade Name (DBA) filings with the Colorado Secretary of State, note that a Trade Name for a reporting entity in Good Standing generally renews on its own annual cycle unless tied to active entity status—always check the History and Documents tab on coloradosos.gov so a separate Trade Name renewal is not confused with your LLC $25 Periodic Report.

LLC Deadline never collects Colorado $25 fee, never accesses your Secure Business Filing credentials, and never acts as your Colorado registered agent or tax adviser. Our price covers only the one-page printable PDF checklist and, on the yearly plan, 30/7/1-day reminder emails sent from support@llcdeadline.com. We are not a law firm; a registered agent; a Secretary of State; a tax preparer.

Always open coloradosos.gov directly from the link at the top of this page before paying to verify the current Secretary of State fee schedule in effect after our 2026-11-14 read date.