Collect your LLC's current registered agent information, principal office address, and member/manager details. Have your entity ID number ready from your original formation documents.
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Access the Colorado Secretary of State Portal
Visit the Colorado Secretary of State's business site at coloradosos.gov and open the business filing section. Create an account if you don't already have one for online filing.
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Complete the Annual Report Form
Fill out the periodic report form with your LLC's current information. Update any changes to registered agent, addresses, or management structure that occurred during the year.
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Pay the $25 Filing Fee
Submit payment for the $25 periodic report fee using a credit or debit card. Colorado periodic reports are filed online only, so payment is processed immediately through the Secretary of State's portal before the deadline.
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Confirm Filing and Keep Records
Save your confirmation receipt and file it with your LLC records. The state will update your LLC status once the report is processed and accepted.
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This guide is general information, not legal or tax advice, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. It reports what each state publishes about filing deadlines, fees, and the consequences of missing them, with the sources this page cites. It cannot tell you what your own company owes: the date turns on when and where you formed, states change these rules between our reviews, and in several states an entity-level tax falls due in a year when no report does. Confirm your own dates with the filing office named on this page before you rely on one here, because the penalty for missing a deadline can be administrative dissolution of the company.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you file your Colorado LLC periodic report late, the Colorado Secretary of State gives you a cushion first: the report can be filed two months before your periodic report month or two months after it without any penalty, so it is not actually late until the last day of the second month following that month. Once that window closes, your LLC's status changes to Noncompliant and a $50 Periodic Report Late Filing Penalty is added on top of the $25 filing fee, for a total of $75. An entity that stays Noncompliant for sixty days then becomes Delinquent, which exposes you to serious consequences: you can't obtain a certificate of good standing, lenders and business partners may refuse to work with you, and under C.R.S. 7-90-903 a delinquent entity may not maintain a proceeding in a Colorado court to collect its debts until the delinquency is cured. Curing Delinquent status costs $100 for a Statement Curing Delinquency, and reinstatement also costs $100, on top of bringing your periodic reports current. No franchise tax line item appears on the Secretary of State's fee schedule, so there are no separate tax penalties from that office, but the longer your LLC stays Delinquent, the more disruptive restoring good standing becomes. Look up your business record at coloradosos.gov to confirm your current status and the exact amount owed.
You file your Colorado LLC periodic report online through the Colorado Secretary of State's portal at coloradosos.gov. The fee schedule shows no paper option for the LLC periodic report. The filing fee is $25, payable by credit or debit card at the time of submission. Online filings are processed in real time and generate a confirmation you can save the same day. Your report is due in your periodic report month, the month your Articles of Organization took effect, but Colorado gives you a five-month window: you can file starting two months before that month and up to two months after it without penalty, and the report is due by the last day of the second month following your periodic report month. After you file, you'll receive official confirmation from the Secretary of State, which you should retain for your business records. Visit coloradosos.gov to look up your business record, access the filing portal, and submit your periodic report today.
Colorado's Secretary of State charges a flat $25 filing fee for LLC periodic reports, regardless of your business size or revenue. The fee was raised from $10 to $25 effective July 1, 2024, so older guides quoting $10 are out of date. The report is filed online through the Secretary of State's portal and is due in your periodic report month each year. Colorado doesn't use a single statewide deadline. The $25 cost is the same for every LLC, with no additional county or local fees. You pay via credit or debit card during the online submission; the fee schedule lists no paper filing option for the periodic report. Filing after the window closes, that is, after the last day of the second month following your periodic report month, triggers a $50 late filing penalty and Noncompliant status, and sixty more days of Noncompliant status makes the entity Delinquent, which costs $100 to cure. A certificate of good standing, by contrast, is free online. To file your 2026 report on time, visit the Secretary of State's business portal at coloradosos.gov and submit your periodic report with payment.
Your Colorado LLC periodic report is due in your periodic report month, the month your Articles of Organization took effect with the Colorado Secretary of State. Colorado also gives you a filing window: you can submit the report starting two months before that month and up to two months after it without penalty, and the report is due by the last day of the second month following your periodic report month. Your very first report gets the same treatment one year out. Under C.R.S. section 7-90-501(4)(c)(I) it is due no later than the last day of the second calendar month following the first anniversary of the month your formation document became effective, so an LLC whose Articles took effect in July 2026 has until September 30, 2027 to file its first report. The Colorado Secretary of State charges a $25 filing fee paid through the online portal. Missing the end of the filing window triggers a $50 late filing penalty and marks your LLC Noncompliant, and sixty more days without filing makes it Delinquent, which costs $100 to cure. That jeopardizes your good standing and can complicate loans and contracts, and under C.R.S. 7-90-903 it bars the entity from maintaining a debt-collection proceeding in a Colorado court until you cure it. To avoid penalties, set a calendar reminder for the first of your periodic report month each year and file as soon as the window opens.
Colorado requires active LLCs to file a periodic report with the Secretary of State, and there are no standard exemptions. Specific situations can end the obligation: an LLC that has been dissolved, or that has merged into another entity and no longer exists, has no ongoing report to file. The Secretary of State does not grant exemptions based on inactivity or financial hardship, so a dormant LLC that is still on the register still owes the $25 report. If your LLC's status is unclear, look up your business record at coloradosos.gov before your filing window closes to confirm what is due. Filing the periodic report with the $25 fee keeps your LLC in good standing and avoids the $50 late filing penalty.
Sources
Each entry below is a document recorded in our verified Colorado sources, and each entry says what the document is. Some statutory text is read from an accurate mirror rather than from the state's own host, and those say so.
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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.
