Florida LLC annual report: US$138.75 before 1 May, US$538.75 after it

Florida doesn't track anniversaries. Every LLC on the register shares one filing season, so a company formed on 2 January and one formed on 30 December file in the same months. The one exception is the year you form: no report is due then, which is why some new owners believe they have none at all.

In practice the online deadline runs to the end of the day: Sunbiz's own annual report page gave filers until 11:59 p.m. Eastern on 1 May 2026.

There are only three prices for a Florida report, and the calendar picks which one you pay. Nothing about the company's size, income or assets changes it.

The odd one out is the last card. Florida drops the late charge for an LLC that was dissolved and then reinstated, so letting it lapse can cost less in fees than filing in July. It costs more in every other way: for weeks the company doesn't legally carry on business, and banks and marketplaces look at Sunbiz.

The report is short, and each answer becomes part of a free public file. That's worth knowing before you type your home address into it, because Florida has no general way to take an address off Sunbiz once it's there.

The manager line is the one founders notice. A Florida "person" includes a company, so a holding company can be named as manager instead of you; we quote that first, and the IRS and your bank still know who owns the LLC. Fields come from section 605.0212.

A missed Florida report runs on a fixed autumn schedule, the same for every company on the register. What follows is that schedule for the 2027 report.

Section 605.0715 sets no deadline for coming back, which is generous. It also needs two signatures, the registered agent's and an authorised person's, so an agent that has stopped answering can hold you up. If someone else has taken the name after that first year, the LLC must change its name before it is reinstated. Reinstatement then counts back to the dissolution date, as if the gap never happened.

If you own the LLC alone and live outside the US, spring brings two filings, not one. The federal one is the expensive one to miss: the IRS penalty for a missing or badly incomplete Form 5472 is US$25,000, about 180 Florida reports.

April 2027. Gold: Form 5472 with a pro forma 1120, by fax or post. Florida's window closes on Saturday 1 May, the day after the 30th.

The form reports money moving between you and the LLC, including what you paid in to set it up, even in a year with no sales. We file it for US$179 a year if you add it; our Form 5472 guide explains every line if you'd rather do it yourself.

Beyond the report, Florida charges only when you change something or need a paper for a bank or a buyer. All of these are fixed in section 605.0213, and the apostille fee in section 15.16.

Florida taxes no individual's income. Its 5.5% corporate income tax, above a US$50,000 exemption, reaches an LLC only if it chooses corporate tax treatment or belongs to a corporation. Sales tax matters if you sell taxable goods into Florida, and for sellers outside the state only past US$100,000 of Florida sales a year.

Comparing yearly costs across states? See Wyoming annual report and fees, Nevada annual list and fees or New Mexico LLC yearly costs, or start from the US LLC overview.