Mississippi Corporation Annual Report
By Edmond Hui · Facts verified July 29, 2026 against primary state sources
Filing for an LLC instead? See the Mississippi LLC annual report.
What Mississippi requires
Annual Report (Form F0008)
| Frequency | every year |
| Due | May be filed any time on or after January 1 and is due by April 15 of that year |
| Fee | $25 |
| Form | Annual Report, Form F0008 |
Mississippi 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) | $25 |
| Five-year equivalent (annualized) | $175 |
That ranks Mississippi 15th cheapest of 49 states on five-year corporate filing charges.
Mississippi corporation vs Mississippi 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 | $50 |
| Report cadence | Every year | Every year |
| Report fee | $25 | $0 |
Both entities cost $50 to file in Mississippi, so the filing fee is not a reason to pick one over the other.
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State taxes a Mississippi corporation pays
Corporate income tax
| Applies | Yes |
| Rate | 0% on the first $5,000 of taxable income, 4% on the next $5,000, and 5% on all taxable income in excess of $10,000 |
Franchise or gross-receipts tax
Mississippi's corporate franchise tax is computed on capital, capital surplus, undivided profits and true reserves employed in Mississippi in excess of $100,000 (or the assessed property value in the state, whichever is greater), at $0.50 per $1,000 for tax years beginning in 2026 and $0.25 per $1,000 for 2027, with a minimum tax of $25. No franchise tax is levied for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2028, when the franchise tax law is repealed under a 2016 Mississippi law. There is no statutory maximum.
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 Mississippi 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 83-105, Mississippi Corporate Income and Franchise Tax Return (due the 15th day of the 4th month after the close of the accounting year)
Frequently Asked Questions
Where these numbers come from
This page covers the recurring report a for-profit corporation files with Mississippi. Every figure was checked against Mississippi'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://www.sos.ms.gov/content/documents/Business/FeeSchedule.pdf
- https://www.sos.ms.gov/business-services/annual-reports
- https://www.dor.ms.gov/sites/default/files/tax-forms/business/2025%20CIT%20INSTRUCTIONS%2083-100%20-%20Final%20%2001.14.2026.pdf
- https://www.dor.ms.gov/sites/default/files/tax-forms/business/2025%20PTE%20INSTRUCTIONS%2084-100%20-%20Final%20%2001.14.2026.pdf
- https://www.dor.ms.gov/business/corporate-income-and-franchise-tax
- Mississippi statute: SB 2858 (2016) (franchise tax phase-down and repeal)
- Mississippi statute: Miss. Code Ann. ss. 27-13-1, 27-13-5, 27-13-7, 27-13-67 (franchise tax)
- Federal statute: IRC s. 1372(a) (as cited for the federal S election)
- Mississippi statute: Miss. Code Ann. s. 27-7-5 (income tax)
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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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.