How much is the Vermont corporation annual report?

$60, filed every year. It is filed as the Annual Report, filed through the VT SOS Online Business Service Center; no numeric form code.

Vermont Corporation Annual Report

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

A Vermont corporation files the Annual Report every year and pays $60. Annually; a domestic for-profit corporation must file within 2.5 months after the close of its fiscal year (by March 15 for calendar-year corporations), per VT SOS. (Foreign business corporation annual report fee is $250.)

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

Vermont corporation annual report requirements: Vermont files an annual corporate report for $60. Vermont 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$60

Corporate income taxYes

What Vermont requires

Annual Report

Frequency	every year
Due	Annually; a domestic for-profit corporation must file within 2.5 months after the close of its fiscal year (by March 15 for calendar-year corporations), per VT SOS. (Foreign business corporation annual report fee is $250.)
Fee	$60
Form	Annual Report, filed through the VT SOS Online Business Service Center; no numeric form code.

Vermont 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	$155
Each year after (report, annualized)	$60
Five-year equivalent (annualized)	$455

That ranks Vermont 34th cheapest of 49 states on five-year corporate filing charges.

Vermont corporation vs Vermont 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	$155	$155
Report cadence	Every year	Every year
Report fee	$60	$45
Entity-level tax on the LLC side	N/A	Minimum Business Entity Tax

Both entities cost $155 to file in Vermont, so the filing fee is not a reason to pick one over the other.

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

State taxes a Vermont corporation pays

Corporate income tax

Applies	Yes
Rate	Graduated (tax year 2024/2025): 6.00% on Vermont taxable income $0-$10,000; $600 + 7.00% of the excess over $10,000 for $10,001-$25,000; $1,650 + 8.50% of the excess over $25,000 for $25,001 and above.
Minimum tax	$100

Franchise or gross-receipts tax

Vermont has no separate corporate franchise tax. Instead, all active C corporations owe a minimum corporate income tax that scales with Vermont gross receipts: less than $500K = $100; $500K-$1M = $500; $1M-$5M = $2,000; $5M-$300M = $6,000; over $300M = $100,000. A small farm corporation's minimum is $75. This minimum is the floor on the C-corp (CO-411) liability. Pass-through entities (S corps/partnerships/LLCs filing BI-471) instead owe a flat $250 minimum entity tax.

The $100 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 Vermont 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: CO-411 (Vermont Corporate Income Tax Return)

Frequently Asked Questions

: $60, filed every year. It is filed as the Annual Report, filed through the VT SOS Online Business Service Center; no numeric form code.
: Annually; a domestic for-profit corporation must file within 2.5 months after the close of its fiscal year (by March 15 for calendar-year corporations), per VT SOS. (Foreign business corporation annual report fee is $250.).

Where these numbers come from

This page covers the recurring report a for-profit corporation files with Vermont. Every figure was checked against Vermont'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://tax.vermont.gov/business/corporate-income-tax
https://tax.vermont.gov/business/business-entity-income-tax
https://sos.vermont.gov/business-services/fees-statutes
https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/11A/016/16.22
Vermont statute: 11A V.S.A. § 2.02 (articles of incorporation)
Vermont statute: 11A V.S.A. § 16.22 (corporation annual report)
Vermont statute: 32 V.S.A. § 5832(2)(A) (minimum corporate 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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