Virginia LLC annual registration fee

The Virginia State Corporation Commission assesses the $50 LLC Annual Registration Fee roughly two months before the anniversary month and sends a notice of assessment to your Virginia Registered Agent at the registered office on file. For example, if your Articles of Organization were issued on July 18, 2026, no registration fee is assessed in 2026; the SCC assesses the first $50 fee in May 2027, and payment is due on or before July 31, 2027.

Because the SCC cannot accept payment for an Annual Registration Fee before the Commission officially generates that year assessment (roughly sixty days ahead of the due month), logging into CIS six months early will show $0.00 currently assessed. Setting a reminder 30 days before the last day of your anniversary month lands squarely inside the open SCC assessment window every single year.

Remember that payment must be received by the SCC on or before the due date—a postmark on a mailed check does not count as timely receipt under Virginia SCC rules. Paying online on cis.scc.virginia.gov posts immediately.

Suppose a Virginia LLC organized in April misses its April 30 deadline. On May 1, the SCC adds the mandatory $25 statutory late payment penalty, making $75 due on CIS. At that stage the LLC is delinquent on its fee but still exists.

The hard statutory cliff arrives exactly three months later—in that example, July 31 (the last day of the third month following April 30). If $75 has not reached the SCC on or before July 31, the domestic LLC existence is automatically canceled by operation of law (or a foreign LLC certificate of registration is automatically canceled), and the entity status flips to Canceled on public SCC records.

Reinstating a canceled Virginia LLC on CIS requires paying a $100 statutory reinstatement fee on top of all accrued registration fees and penalties, plus confirming that your LLC name is still distinguishable on SCC records. Missing a $50 bill by ninety-one days therefore triples or quadruples the cost instantaneously.

Because a Virginia LLC pays a registration fee rather than filing an annual report, paying the $50 fee does not update your principal office address or your Virginia Registered Agent. On cis.scc.virginia.gov, clicking "Pay Registration Fees" (QuickPay) lets you look up your SCC Entity ID, verify the $50 assessment, and pay by card or eCheck without even signing into a CIS user account.

If your Virginia Registered Agent or Principal Office address has changed since last year, you must file a separate change form on CIS (Statement of Change of Registered Office and/or Registered Agent, which is free online on CIS, or a Principal Office address update) by logging into your CIS account. Never assume paying the $50 fee updates an old address.

Virginia corporations work differently: corporations file both an Annual Report and pay a charter/registration fee based on authorized shares. Make sure you are looking at the S-prefixed or numeric SCC Entity ID for your Limited Liability Company.

First, search your LLC on cis.scc.virginia.gov Business Entity Search and copy your exact SCC Entity ID along with your Organization/Registration Date so you confirm the true anniversary month.

Second, check the "Status" field (it should read Active) and check "Registration Fee Due Date" on the public CIS detail screen to confirm the $50 assessment is open.

Third, inspect your Registered Agent name and Virginia street address on the public CIS profile. Because the SCC sends official assessment and pending-cancellation notices to your Registered Agent, an outdated agent address leaves you blind to SCC warnings.

Fourth, pay the $50 fee online via CIS (never rely on last-week postal mail, since postmarks are not honored) and save the SCC electronic receipt in your company records.

The $50 Annual Registration Fee goes to the State Corporation Commission—an independent constitutional agency in Richmond—not to the Virginia Department of Taxation (Virginia Tax). Filing Form 502 (Pass-Through Entity Return of Income and Return of Nonresident Withholding Tax) or Schedule C on Form 760 with Virginia Tax has zero effect on your SCC registration fee.

Conversely, even an inactive, zero-revenue, single-member disregarded Virginia LLC that owes $0 to Virginia Tax must still pay the $50 SCC Annual Registration Fee every year until formal Articles of Cancellation are filed on CIS. Simply abandoning an unused LLC without canceling it formally still racks up the $25 penalty and public Canceled for Nonpayment status.

Local Virginia county or city BPOL (Business, Professional, and Occupational License) renewals and tangible personal property filings are also completely separate local obligations.

Virginia business owners frequently receive official-looking "Annual Report Compliance" notices from private companies demanding $150 to $250 to file an "Annual Report" that Virginia LLCs do not even have! Remember: Virginia LLCs do not file an annual report—they pay a $50 registration fee directly on cis.scc.virginia.gov.

Our paid PDF checklist states that exact rule at the top, prints your anniversary-month due date, the $50 fee, the $25 late penalty, the 3-month automatic cancellation deadline, your SCC Entity ID, and the separate CIS step if your registered agent or principal office changed.

On our $39 yearly plan, reminder emails go out 30 days, 7 days, and 1 day before your month-end due date—every one of them falling inside the SCC open assessment window so you can click CIS QuickPay and finish in two minutes.

An out-of-state LLC registered to transact business in Virginia pays the exact same $50 Annual Registration Fee on CIS, due on the last day of the month the SCC issued its Certificate of Registration to Transact Business in Virginia (not the month it was formed in Delaware or Maryland). Non-payment three months after the due date automatically cancels its Virginia registration and forfeits its authority to transact business in the Commonwealth.

After paying on CIS, refresh your Business Entity Search page or check your CIS payment history to confirm the balance reads $0.00 and the next Registration Fee Due Date has advanced by one full year. Keep that PDF receipt alongside your operating agreement for bank account reviews or government-contracting SAM/eVA checks.

LLC Deadline never collects Virginia $50 fee, never logs into your CIS account, and never acts as your Virginia registered agent. Our price covers only the one-page printable PDF checklist and, on the yearly plan, 30/7/1-day reminder emails from support@llcdeadline.com. We are not a law firm; a registered agent; a Secretary of State; a tax preparer.

Open scc.virginia.gov/businesses/business-entities/annual-fees/ directly before paying to verify current SCC rules, payment methods, and statutory fee amounts in effect after our 2026-11-14 read date.