Florida LLC annual report

The fee is $138.75 if Sunbiz receives the Florida LLC annual report by May 1. After May 1, Sunbiz adds $400. The late amount is a penalty added by the state, not a service charge from this site, and it is paid to Sunbiz along with the report.

The state page does not describe a grace period for the $400 late fee. It describes the fee to file by May 1 and the added amount after that date. Plan to file early in the window if you can. January and February are the safest months because a rejected card or a missing document number still leaves time to correct it.

We do not collect the state fee and we do not forward it. When you pay this site, you are buying a PDF checklist. When you pay Sunbiz, you are paying the state. Keep the two receipts separate in your records.

Set the fee aside before the window closes, not on the last day. A card that is declined on May 1 leaves no time to try another payment method inside the lower-fee window. An attempt in January costs nothing but a retry if it fails.

Sunbiz is the only place that can tell you whether the report was accepted. This site cannot look up your filing status and does not receive a copy of the state confirmation. Keep the confirmation number in your own records and treat it as the proof that the state received the report.

The Florida LLC annual report can be filed online from January 1 to May 1. The state does not use the formation anniversary for this report. Every Florida LLC uses the same annual window, which is why the date is easy to remember and easy to miss at the same time.

Because the window opens on January 1, the first days of the year are also a valid time to file. Filing early does not shorten the next year. The next report still opens on the following January 1. You are not penalized for being early, and you are not rewarded with a shorter cycle.

If May 1 falls on a weekend, do not assume the deadline moves. The official page states May 1, and this site repeats May 1. If Sunbiz publishes a different instruction for a specific year, that instruction controls. Re-read the state page before the deadline in the year you file.

You need the entity document number. Sunbiz uses that number to match the report to the right LLC, and the annual report help page points to it. Have it open before you begin the form so you do not lose the session while searching for it.

You also need a way to pay the state fee on the state site. The report is online only, so the payment happens inside the Sunbiz flow. This site never asks for your card in relation to the state fee, and it never stores a card number.

Keep the confirmation from Sunbiz after you file. The confirmation is the record that the state received the report. A reminder email from this site is not that record, and a PDF checklist is not that record either. Only the state can confirm that a filing was accepted.

File on Sunbiz, not on this site. The two official links are in the first paragraph of this page. The help page explains the report, and the filing start page is the entry to the online form. Open them in a browser and follow the state prompts.

This site does not have a filing portal and does not want one. Our role is to tell you the date, the fee, and the fields, and to email a checklist you can work from. A website that offered to file would be doing something different, and it would carry obligations we do not take on.

If you would rather have someone else complete the filing, hire a professional you choose. We do not recommend, dispatch, or refer a company, and we do not sell your email to one. That boundary is part of the product, not a limitation we are hiding.

The Florida PDF lists the filing window, the $138.75 fee, the $400 late fee after May 1, the online-only rule, and the document number reminder. It also repeats the sentence that the report is filed on the state site, not here, and the checkbox that says you pay the state yourself.

The PDF does not reproduce the Sunbiz form and does not pretend to be a government document. It is a one-page working sheet. You keep it beside the state form while you type the answers, and you can file it with your own records after the state accepts the report.

The yearly plan adds three reminder emails before the date stored with your order. To change that date, email support@llcdeadline.com from the address you paid with. The one-time plan delivers the PDF without reminders.

The most expensive mistake is treating May 1 as the day to start. It is the last day the state accepts the report at the lower fee. A missing document number or a declined card on May 1 can push the filing past the boundary and add the $400 late amount.

The second mistake is filing a corporation report on an LLC page. The entity types are different, the forms are different, and the fee on this page belongs to an LLC. Confirm the entity type on Sunbiz before you use any checklist.

The third mistake is assuming a reminder is a filing. A reminder tells you the date is close. It does not submit anything. If the email arrives and you do nothing, the state still sees no report.

We do not file, we do not act as a registered agent, and we do not pass your phone number to a business. We do not collect the state fee and we do not pay it for you. We are not a law firm; a registered agent; a Secretary of State; a tax preparer.

We also do not guarantee that the state page will say the same thing forever. Fees and forms change. The official page wins, and the read date printed on this page tells you when we last checked it.