Mississippi Corporation Annual 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 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.
Full Mississippi LLC cost breakdown · LLC vs C-corp explained · LLC vs S-corp explained
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 still imposes a corporate franchise tax, but it is mid-phase-out. It 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. The franchise tax is repealed effective January 1, 2028 (SB 2858, 2016; Miss. Code Ann. ss. 27-13-1, 27-13-5, 27-13-7, 27-13-67). 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 Mississippilevies — 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