How much is the Arkansas corporation annual report?

$150, filed every year. It is filed as the Annual Franchise Tax Report, Corporation (filed with the Secretary of State; this filing serves as Arkansas's combined annual report and franchise tax).

Arkansas Corporation Annual Report

By Edmond Hui · Facts verified July 29, 2026 against primary state sources

An Arkansas corporation files the Annual Franchise Tax Report every year and pays $150. May 1 each year

Filing for an LLC instead? See the Arkansas LLC annual report.

Arkansas corporation annual report requirements: Arkansas files an annual corporate report for $150. Arkansas imposes a corporate income tax. — The report fee shown is the state filing charge only; income or franchise tax, where owed, is covered separately on this page. Source: MyStateLLC 50-state corporation dataset, compiled from state filing offices and revenue departments, July 2026; any figure we could not confirm is labeled on the page.

Filing cadenceEvery year

Report fee$150

Corporate income taxYes

What Arkansas requires

Annual Franchise Tax Report

Frequency	every year
Due	May 1 each year
Fee	$150
Form	Annual Franchise Tax Report, Corporation (filed with the Secretary of State; this filing serves as Arkansas's combined annual report and franchise tax)

Arkansas is one of 41 states on an annual corporate reporting cycle. Nationally, 41 states require an annual corporate report, 7 require one every two years, and 2 require none.

What the filings cost over five years

State filing charges only, incorporation plus five years of reporting, annualized. Corporate income tax and franchise tax are excluded, because both depend on income or net worth.

Period	State filing charges
Incorporation	$50
Each year after (report, annualized)	$150
Five-year equivalent (annualized)	$800

That ranks Arkansas 44th cheapest of 49 states on five-year corporate filing charges.

Arkansas corporation vs Arkansas LLC

State filing charges only. Corporate income tax and franchise tax are excluded because both depend on income or net worth, so no flat figure exists for either entity.

	Corporation	LLC
Formation filing fee	$50	$45
Report cadence	Every year	Every year
Report fee	$150	$150
Entity-level tax on the LLC side	N/A	Arkansas Franchise Tax

An LLC is $5 cheaper to file here. That is a one-off charge, so it should not decide the entity type on its own.

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State taxes an Arkansas corporation pays

Corporate income tax

Applies	Yes
Rate	Graduated (tax years beginning on/after 1/1/2024): 1% on the first $3,000; 2% on the next $3,000; 3% on the next $5,000; 4.3% on net income over $11,000. Filed on Form AR1100CT, due the 15th day of the 4th month (April 15 for calendar-year filers).

Franchise or gross-receipts tax

Arkansas levies an annual franchise tax, administered by the Secretary of State and due May 1. Stock corporations pay 0.3% (.003) of the outstanding capital stock apportioned to Arkansas, with a minimum of $150; corporations without authorized stock pay a flat $300. LLCs pay a flat $150. The franchise tax filing is the same as Arkansas's annual report.

What these totals leave out: the filing-charge figures on this page are what you pay the business filing office. They exclude corporate income tax and any franchise or gross-receipts tax, because both depend on income, net worth or receipts. The section above sets out what Arkansas levies, or that it levies neither. Where a state's franchise tax carries a flat minimum, that minimum is an unavoidable annual cost these totals do not include, and over five years it can be the larger number.

C-corp return: Form AR1100CT (Arkansas Corporation Income Tax Return), due the 15th day of the 4th month (April 15)

Frequently Asked Questions

: $150, filed every year. It is filed as the Annual Franchise Tax Report, Corporation (filed with the Secretary of State; this filing serves as Arkansas's combined annual report and franchise tax).
: May 1 each year.

Where these numbers come from

This page covers the recurring report a for-profit corporation files with Arkansas. Every figure was checked against Arkansas's own published sources on July 29, 2026, the state business filing agency's fee schedule, the governing statute, and where a state tax applies, the state Department of Revenue. Commercial formation-service pages were used as leads only and are never cited. Anything the review could not confirm from an official source is left blank on this page rather than filled with an estimate.

Corporate income tax and franchise tax are quoted as the state publishes them, as rate schedules and thresholds, and are excluded from every dollar total here. They depend on income or net worth, so there is no flat figure that would be true for every corporation.

Primary sources:

This guide is general information, not legal or tax advice, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. It describes rules that can differ from state to state, and fees, rates, forms and deadlines can change after we review them. It cannot tell you what applies to your own business: that turns on where the business is formed, where it operates and how it is taxed. Confirm anything you rely on with the state or federal agency concerned, or with a licensed attorney or CPA, before you act on it.

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