How much is the Kentucky corporation annual report?

$15, filed every year. It is filed as the Annual Report (filed with the Secretary of State; no separate numbered form).

Kentucky Corporation Annual Report

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

A Kentucky corporation files the Annual Report every year and pays $15. June 30 each year (year after formation onward)

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

Kentucky corporation annual report requirements: Kentucky files an annual corporate report for $15. Kentucky 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$15

Corporate income taxYes

What Kentucky requires

Annual Report

Frequency	every year
Due	June 30 each year (year after formation onward)
Fee	$15
Form	Annual Report (filed with the Secretary of State; no separate numbered form)

Kentucky 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	from $40
Each year after (report, annualized)	$15
Five-year equivalent (annualized)	$115

That ranks Kentucky 5th cheapest of 49 states on five-year corporate filing charges.

Kentucky corporation vs Kentucky 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	$40	$40
Report cadence	Every year	Every year
Report fee	$15	$15
Entity-level tax on the LLC side	N/A	Limited Liability Entity Tax (LLET)

Both entities cost $40 to file in Kentucky, so the filing fee is not a reason to pick one over the other.

Full Kentucky LLC cost breakdown · LLC vs C-corp explained · LLC vs S-corp explained

State taxes a Kentucky corporation pays

Corporate income tax

Applies	Yes
Rate	Flat 5% (for tax years beginning on or after Jan 1, 2018)
Minimum tax	$175

Franchise or gross-receipts tax

Kentucky has no separate corporation franchise tax; instead it imposes the Limited Liability Entity Tax (LLET) on corporations, LLCs, S corps and LPs. LLET minimum is $175 for entities with gross receipts or gross profits of $3 million or less; above that it is the lesser of 0.095% of Kentucky gross receipts or 0.75% of Kentucky gross profits.

The $175 minimum tax is deliberately left out of the filing-charge totals on this page. A minimum tax is owed to the state tax authority on a tax return, not to the business filing office, but unlike an income-based tax it is a floor, so treat it as a recurring cost of keeping the corporation alive here.

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 Kentucky 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 720 (Kentucky Corporation Income Tax and LLET Return)

Frequently Asked Questions

: $15, filed every year. It is filed as the Annual Report (filed with the Secretary of State; no separate numbered form).
: June 30 each year (year after formation onward).

Where these numbers come from

This page covers the recurring report a for-profit corporation files with Kentucky. Every figure was checked against Kentucky'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:

https://revenue.ky.gov/Business/Corporation-Income-and-Limited-Liability-Entity-Tax/Pages/default.aspx
https://www.sos.ky.gov/bus/business-filings/Pages/Fees.aspx
https://www.sos.ky.gov/bus/business-filings/Pages/default.aspx
https://www.sos.ky.gov/bus/business-filings/Pages/Annual-Reports.aspx
Kentucky statute: KRS 136.060 (organization tax on authorized shares)

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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