How do I pay my Virginia LLC annual registration fee through the SCC portal?

Virginia LLCs do not file an annual report, so what you are paying is the $50 annual registration fee. Sign in to the Clerk's Information System (CIS) at scc.virginia.gov, find your LLC by entity name or ID number, and open the annual registration fee payment. There is no report form to complete and no member list to file. The SCC assesses the fee and sends notification two months before it is due, and you may not pay before being assessed, so wait for that notice rather than trying to pay ahead. Payment is by credit card or eCheck, and the SCC charges no processing fee for paying the annual registration fee online. Your deadline is the last day of the month your LLC was organized or registered, not a statewide date. A payment received after that adds a $25 penalty, regardless of weekends or holidays. Save the confirmation. It is the cleanest proof of good standing you will have when a lender, a landlord, or a contracting officer asks for one.

What happens if I miss my Virginia LLC's anniversary month deadline for the annual registration fee?

The State Corporation Commission adds a $25 penalty to the $50 annual registration fee, so a late year costs $75. The penalty attaches to any payment not received on or before the due date, regardless of weekends or holidays, and there is no discretionary grace day. What follows is more serious than the penalty. An LLC that still has not paid is cancelled on the last day of the third month following the due date. The SCC's own example is an LLC organized in April: if the fee is unpaid, the entity is cancelled by the last business day of July. Reinstating a cancelled Virginia LLC is done on form LLC1050.4P and costs $100 plus every unpaid fee, so the cheapest outcome of a missed date is $75 and the most expensive climbs from there. If you have missed your month, pay through the Clerk's Information System at scc.virginia.gov right away, or call the SCC Clerk's Office at (804) 371-9733 to confirm exactly where your entity stands.

Does my Virginia LLC need to maintain a registered agent, and what are the requirements?

Yes. Every Virginia LLC must maintain a registered agent with a physical Virginia street address, available during normal business hours to accept service of process and official notices. You can act as your own agent if you have a Virginia street address, appoint another qualifying individual or entity, or hire a commercial registered agent service, which commonly runs $75 to $300 a year. The agent's name and registered office address are set out in your Articles of Organization, form LLC1011, and are kept current through a change filing in the Clerk's Information System at scc.virginia.gov. That is a separate filing from the annual registration fee payment. Letting the role lapse is a compliance problem in its own right, and a stale address means you may never receive a summons. If you move out of state or switch agents, file the change straight away rather than waiting for a deadline. Your annual registration fee is due on the last day of your formation month, so treat the SCC's assessment notice, which arrives two months earlier, as an annual prompt to check the agent details as well.

Are there any special considerations for Virginia LLCs seeking federal government contracts?

Yes. A Virginia LLC bidding for federal work registers in SAM.gov, the federal System for Award Management, which issues a Unique Entity ID at registration. The UEI replaced the DUNS number in April 2022, so a Dun & Bradstreet number is no longer part of the process. Defense work also involves a CAGE code, assigned by the Defense Logistics Agency. None of that substitutes for staying in good standing at home. Your Virginia obligation is the $50 annual registration fee, assessed by the State Corporation Commission and due on the last day of the month your LLC was organized. Virginia has no Secretary of State for business filings, and LLCs here do not file an annual report. Miss the fee and a $25 penalty applies; leave it unpaid and the LLC is cancelled on the last day of the third month after the due date, which is not a status you want a contracting officer to find. You will also need an EIN from the IRS, and depending on the contract, procedures for handling Controlled Unclassified Information, background checks for key personnel, and cybersecurity controls to NIST standards. SAM registration and entity validation are not instant, so start well before a bid deadline. Virginia's Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity is a reasonable first call for help with the state side.

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Virginia LLC Annual Compliance Requirements (2026)

Everything your Virginia LLC must do to stay in good standing, annual report deadlines, registered agent rules, and state-specific obligations.

First-Year Total$150

Annual Ongoing$50/yr

vs National Avg- $82.13

By Edmond Hui · Last updated: October 1, 2026

Virginia keeps LLC upkeep cheap and largely hands-off, but it does it in a way that catches people out. The Commonwealth charges $100 to file Articles of Organization, form LLC1011, and $50 a year after that. Note what the $50 actually is: Virginia LLCs pay an annual registration fee and do not file an annual report. A first year at $150 sits about $82 below the national average and 19th cheapest of the 50 states.

Business filings here run through the State Corporation Commission rather than a Secretary of State, in the Clerk's Information System (CIS) at scc.virginia.gov. The SCC assesses your registration fee and sends notification two months before it is due, and you may not pay before being assessed, so this is one deadline you cannot get ahead of. The fee is due on the last day of the month your LLC was organized or registered, each year. Miss it and a $25 penalty is added regardless of weekends or holidays; leave it unpaid and the LLC is cancelled on the last day of the third month after the due date, with reinstatement costing $100 plus everything owed. Virginia imposes no entity-level franchise or minimum tax on an LLC, though every pass-through entity doing business in the state files a Virginia return on Form 502 or Form 502PTET.

Stat card for Virginia LLC compliance costs: $150 in unavoidable first-year charges and $50 a year after that, −$82.13 against the $232.13 national first-year average. Its annual report costs $50. — First-year total bundles the state filing fee with any report or entity tax due in year one; the recurring figure is what Virginia costs every year after that. Source: Virginia's published filing requirements and fee schedule, verified July 2026; national average from MyStateLLC's 50-state compliance dataset.

Annual Report Requirements

Due: Last day of anniversary month

Fee: $50

Frequency: annual

How: Online or mail

Full Virginia Annual Report Guide →

Registered Agent Requirements

Every Virginia LLC must keep a registered agent with a physical Virginia street address to accept service of process. The agent is named in your Articles of Organization and updated through a separate filing in the SCC's Clerk's Information System, not through the annual registration fee payment.

Before you compare paid services: in most states the LLC's owner, or another individual who qualifies, may serve as its registered agent themselves, generally subject to that state's rules on keeping a street address in the state and being available there during normal business hours. A paid service is one way to meet the requirement and not the only one. The Virginia registered agent requirements set out what Virginia itself asks.

Registered agent services for Virginia LLCs

Affiliate disclosure: Northwest Registered Agent, Bizee, ZenBusiness and LegalZoom pay us a commission if you sign up through our link, at no extra cost to you. We list only the registered agent services we have an affiliate relationship with, so this is not a survey of the whole market.

This list is not scored. The four are listed cheapest annual renewal first, and every claim below is about the services listed here rather than the whole market.

Northwest Registered Agent$125/yr renewal
Best for: Privacy-focused owners and anyone who just needs an agent, not a formation bundle
Bizee$149/yr renewal
Best for: A free first year on every plan, renewing at $149/yr, if you're comfortable with the BBB caveat
ZenBusiness$199/yr renewal
Best for: First-time founders forming a new LLC who want phone, email and chat support
LegalZoom$249/yr renewal
Best for: Complex structures that want attorney consultations, which come with LegalZoom's Pro and Premium formation plans rather than this renewal price

Note: Bizee holds a C rating from the BBB and is not accredited. BBB's profile carries a live alert describing a pattern of complaints about unexpected charges, difficulty canceling and filing delays, and Bizee has posted a response to it. We flag this so you can make an informed choice.

Annual renewal is each provider's own standard published rate. Check the current terms at each provider before you buy. The scored ranking, and the formula behind it, is in our full formation services review →

Virginia Registered Agent Requirements →

Late Filing Penalties

Penalty: $25 penalty added to the $50 annual registration fee, making a late year $75

Virginia Late Fee Guide →

Virginia-Specific Compliance Considerations

Anniversary Month Registration Fee System

Virginia ties the deadline to your own formation month rather than a statewide date. The SCC's rule is that your due date is the last day of the month your business was organized or registered, and Virginia law states it as the last day of the twelfth month after the month of organization, and by that date in each year after that. The first $50 therefore falls a year out: an LLC organized in April owes its first fee on the last day of April the following year.

SCC Clerk's Information System

The State Corporation Commission's Clerk's Information System (CIS) at scc.virginia.gov handles Virginia business filings end to end, from Articles of Organization through the annual registration fee payment. The SCC charges no processing fee for paying the annual registration fee online and encourages online filing to save time and prevent processing errors. Paid Next Day ($50) and Same Day ($200) review exist for online filings only; you may not expedite a paper submission.

Federal Contracting Advantages

Virginia's proximity to Washington, D.C. and its concentration of defense and technology contractors mean many LLCs here take on federal obligations that have nothing to do with state law: SAM.gov registration, a Unique Entity ID, and for some work security clearances and cybersecurity controls. None of it replaces the state requirement. A cancelled Virginia LLC is not a bidder in good standing, so the $50 annual registration fee stays on the calendar regardless.

Minimal Late Penalty Structure

A late annual registration fee costs $25 on top of the $50, so a late year is $75, and the SCC applies that penalty to any payment not received on or before the due date, regardless of weekends or holidays. The escalation matters more than the penalty: an LLC that has still not paid is cancelled on the last day of the third month following the due date, and reinstatement on form LLC1050.4P costs $100 plus every unpaid fee.

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

: Virginia LLCs do not file an annual report, so what you are paying is the $50 annual registration fee. Sign in to the Clerk's Information System (CIS) at scc.virginia.gov, find your LLC by entity name or ID number, and open the annual registration fee payment. There is no report form to complete and no member list to file. The SCC assesses the fee and sends notification two months before it is due, and you may not pay before being assessed, so wait for that notice rather than trying to pay ahead. Payment is by credit card or eCheck, and the SCC charges no processing fee for paying the annual registration fee online. Your deadline is the last day of the month your LLC was organized or registered, not a statewide date. A payment received after that adds a $25 penalty, regardless of weekends or holidays. Save the confirmation. It is the cleanest proof of good standing you will have when a lender, a landlord, or a contracting officer asks for one.
: The State Corporation Commission adds a $25 penalty to the $50 annual registration fee, so a late year costs $75. The penalty attaches to any payment not received on or before the due date, regardless of weekends or holidays, and there is no discretionary grace day. What follows is more serious than the penalty. An LLC that still has not paid is cancelled on the last day of the third month following the due date. The SCC's own example is an LLC organized in April: if the fee is unpaid, the entity is cancelled by the last business day of July. Reinstating a cancelled Virginia LLC is done on form LLC1050.4P and costs $100 plus every unpaid fee, so the cheapest outcome of a missed date is $75 and the most expensive climbs from there. If you have missed your month, pay through the Clerk's Information System at scc.virginia.gov right away, or call the SCC Clerk's Office at (804) 371-9733 to confirm exactly where your entity stands.
: Yes. Every Virginia LLC must maintain a registered agent with a physical Virginia street address, available during normal business hours to accept service of process and official notices. You can act as your own agent if you have a Virginia street address, appoint another qualifying individual or entity, or hire a commercial registered agent service, which commonly runs $75 to $300 a year. The agent's name and registered office address are set out in your Articles of Organization, form LLC1011, and are kept current through a change filing in the Clerk's Information System at scc.virginia.gov. That is a separate filing from the annual registration fee payment. Letting the role lapse is a compliance problem in its own right, and a stale address means you may never receive a summons. If you move out of state or switch agents, file the change straight away rather than waiting for a deadline. Your annual registration fee is due on the last day of your formation month, so treat the SCC's assessment notice, which arrives two months earlier, as an annual prompt to check the agent details as well.
: Yes. A Virginia LLC bidding for federal work registers in SAM.gov, the federal System for Award Management, which issues a Unique Entity ID at registration. The UEI replaced the DUNS number in April 2022, so a Dun & Bradstreet number is no longer part of the process. Defense work also involves a CAGE code, assigned by the Defense Logistics Agency. None of that substitutes for staying in good standing at home. Your Virginia obligation is the $50 annual registration fee, assessed by the State Corporation Commission and due on the last day of the month your LLC was organized. Virginia has no Secretary of State for business filings, and LLCs here do not file an annual report. Miss the fee and a $25 penalty applies; leave it unpaid and the LLC is cancelled on the last day of the third month after the due date, which is not a status you want a contracting officer to find. You will also need an EIN from the IRS, and depending on the contract, procedures for handling Controlled Unclassified Information, background checks for key personnel, and cybersecurity controls to NIST standards. SAM registration and entity validation are not instant, so start well before a bid deadline. Virginia's Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity is a reasonable first call for help with the state side.

Sources

Each entry below is a document recorded in our verified Virginia 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. Where we hold the citation but no stable public link, the citation is printed on its own rather than pointed at a guessed address.

Virginia statute: Code of Virginia § 13.1-1062 (annual registration fee due date)
scc.virginia.gov/businesses/Virginia State Corporation Commission: business entity filings
law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title13.1/chapter12/section13.1-1062/Virginia statute: Annual Registration Fee
scc.virginia.gov/media/sccvirginiagov-home/business-home/business-faqs/annual-registration-fees/how-to-guide-pay-annual-reg-fees-online.pdfVirginia agency guidance: Annual Registration Fee

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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.