Kansas Corporation Biennial Report
By Edmond Hui · Facts verified July 29, 2026 against primary state sources
Edmond Hui · Founder, MyStateLLC
Edmond Hui is a software engineer and serial entrepreneur based in New York who has founded multiple online businesses across e-commerce, media, and information publishing. Before transitioning into tech, he spent years as a commercial real estate professional closing deals totaling over 100,000 square feet, giving him firsthand experience with business formation and entity structuring. He built MyStateLLC to provide the free, state-specific LLC guidance he wished existed when forming his own companies.
What Kansas requires
Information Report / Annual Report — For-Profit Corporation
| Frequency | every two years |
| Due | April 15 of the entity's biennial filing year (even-year formations file in even years, odd-year formations in odd years); $53 online / $55 paper |
| Fee | $53 |
| Form | Information Report / Annual Report — For-Profit Corporation (Form AR) |
Kansas is one of 7 states on a biennial corporate reporting cycle — which works out to $26.50 a year once averaged, the number to use when comparing against annual-filing states. 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. Because this state reports every two years, the yearly figure is the fee halved; a biennial filer actually writes two or three cheques over five years, not five. Corporate income tax and franchise tax are excluded, because both depend on income or net worth.
| Period | State filing charges |
|---|---|
| Incorporation | $85 |
| Each year after (report, annualized) | $26.50 |
| Five-year equivalent (annualized) | $217.50 |
That ranks Kansas 20th cheapest of 49 states on five-year corporate filing charges.
Kansas corporation vs Kansas 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 | $85 | $85 |
| Report cadence | Every two years | Every two years |
| Report fee | $53 | $90 |
Both entities cost $85 to file in Kansas, so the filing fee is not a reason to pick one over the other.
Full Kansas LLC cost breakdown · LLC vs C-corp explained · LLC vs S-corp explained
State taxes a Kansas corporation pays
Corporate income tax
| Applies | Yes |
| Rate | 3.5% normal tax on Kansas taxable income plus a 3.0% surtax on Kansas taxable income over $50,000 (top combined rate 6.5%) |
Franchise or gross-receipts tax
Kansas has no general corporate franchise tax (the franchise tax was repealed effective tax year 2011). A privilege tax applies only to banks and financial institutions, not ordinary corporations or LLCs.
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 Kansaslevies — 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: K-120 (Kansas Corporation Income Tax Return)
Frequently Asked Questions
Where these numbers come from
This page covers the recurring report a for-profit corporation files with Kansas. Every figure was checked against Kansas'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.