What happens if I file my Georgia LLC annual report late?

Filing after April 1 costs a flat $25 late penalty on top of the $60 annual registration, so $85 in total. The Corporations Division fee schedule lists it as "Penalty for Late Filing of Annual Registration $25.00," the same online or on paper, and Georgia's guidance is that a mailed envelope must be postmarked by April 1 to avoid it. The penalty does not escalate month by month; $25 is the whole of it. What does escalate is your entity status. A Georgia rule provides that an LLC that fails to file its annual registration with the correct fee "may be subjected to administrative dissolution or revocation" under Georgia law. An administratively dissolved LLC is off the active roll, which is what a bank, lender, or counterparty sees when it looks you up. Reinstating a domestic Georgia LLC costs $260, a $250 fee plus the $10 service charge, and Georgia law requires the application within five years of the administrative dissolution. If you have already missed April 1, file the overdue registration through sos.ga.gov and pay the $25 with it. If you are still inside the window, file any time between January 1 and April 1.

How do I file my Georgia LLC annual report?

Georgia calls the filing an annual registration, and you can submit it online through the Secretary of State's Corporations Division at sos.ga.gov or on paper by mail. Online is the better route: Georgia processes online annual registrations immediately with no expedite fee, while paper goes into the normal queue. To file online, open the Corporations Division portal, look up your LLC by name or control number, and confirm or update your registered agent, principal office address, and member or manager information. The fee is $60, which the fee schedule effective September 6, 2025 breaks out as a $50 base fee plus a $10 service charge, and it is the same total by mail. Georgia also lets you cover one, two, or three consecutive calendar years in one submission, at the same rate per year, but prepaid fees are not refunded if the LLC ends early. The registration is due between January 1 and April 1 of each year. A newly formed LLC does not file in its formation year: a Georgia rule puts the first registration between January 1 and April 1 of the year following the calendar year of the formation filing, so an LLC created in November 2026 owes its first $60 registration by April 1, 2027. Filing after April 1 adds a $25 penalty, and continued failure to file with the correct fee can lead to administrative dissolution or revocation. Your next step: log in at sos.ga.gov, confirm your LLC's status, and locate your control number before the window closes.

How much does it cost to file a Georgia LLC annual report?

The Georgia LLC annual registration costs $60 a year. The Corporations Division fee schedule effective September 6, 2025 shows it as a $50 base fee plus a $10 service charge, and it lists the identical $60 in both the online and the paper column, so mailing it saves nothing. Older guidance quoting a $10 online discount is out of date. Payment is by credit card, debit card, or electronic check in the portal, or by check with a mailed filing. Georgia lets you register for one, two, or three consecutive calendar years at once at the same annual rate, though a Georgia rule says those prepaid fees are not refunded if the LLC is terminated, dissolved, merged out of existence, withdrawn, administratively dissolved, or revoked before the period ends. File between January 1 and April 1; after that the fee schedule adds a flat $25 late penalty, taking the total to $85, and an LLC that keeps failing to file with the correct fee can be administratively dissolved or revoked, with reinstatement then costing $260. Submit at sos.ga.gov well before April 1 so a payment problem does not push you past the date.

Are there any exemptions from Georgia LLC annual report requirements?

No. Every LLC registered to do business in Georgia, domestic or foreign, files an annual registration between January 1 and April 1 each year, regardless of activity level, revenue, or whether the business ever traded. An inactive or zero-revenue LLC still owes the $60. The only thing that ends the obligation is ending the entity. An LLC that has been voluntarily dissolved, merged out of existence, or withdrawn is no longer registered and no longer files, but dissolution is a separate filing with its own paperwork rather than a way to skip a deadline. Note too that if you prepaid two or three years of registration, Georgia does not refund the unused years when the LLC ends early. What does vary is when you start. A Georgia rule puts a new LLC's first annual registration between January 1 and April 1 of the year following the calendar year of the formation filing, so an LLC formed in December 2026 files first by April 1, 2027. Missing April 1 adds a flat $25 penalty and, if the failure continues, exposes the LLC to administrative dissolution or revocation, with reinstatement at $260. Mark the January 1 to April 1 window on your calendar and file through the Corporations Division portal at sos.ga.gov.

Georgia LLC Annual Report: $60, Filed Every Year

Georgia calls it the annual registration. It costs $60, it is due between January 1 and April 1 every year, and filing after April 1 adds a $25 late penalty.

By Edmond Hui · Last updated: August 2026

Georgia LLC annual reports are due April 1 and cost $60 to file. See details below.

Georgia calls the LLC's periodic report the Annual Registration. Filing for a corporation instead? See the Georgia corporation annual report.

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When is the Georgia LLC annual report due, and what does it cost?

Due Date	April 1
Fee	$60
Filing Method	Online or mail
Late Penalty	$25 late fee - and administrative dissolution begins after continued failure to file
Official state page	ecorp.sos.ga.gov

Step diagram for filing the Georgia LLC annual report, $60 filing fee, due April 1. — Filing the Georgia annual report, with the state's own fee and deadline. Source: Georgia Secretary of State.

How do you file the Georgia LLC annual report?

1
Gather Required LLC Information
Collect your Georgia LLC's registered agent name and Georgia address, principal office address, member or manager information, and your LLC's control number from your formation filing or a previous registration.
2
Access the Georgia SOS Filing Portal
Visit the Georgia Secretary of State at sos.ga.gov and open the Corporations Division business filing section. Look for the annual registration option and search for your LLC by name or control number.
3
Complete the Annual Registration
Georgia does not use a numbered annual report form for online filers; you confirm the record the Corporations Division already holds. Update any change to your registered agent, principal office address, or member and manager details since the last filing. Georgia also lets you register for one, two, or three consecutive calendar years in a single submission, though a Georgia rule says prepaid fees are not refunded if the LLC ends before the period runs out.
4
Pay the $60 Annual Registration Fee
Submit the $60 fee, which the Corporations Division fee schedule effective September 6, 2025 breaks out as a $50 base fee plus a $10 service charge. The total is the same online or on paper. Pay by credit card, debit card, or electronic check in the portal, and keep the payment confirmation. Filing after April 1 adds a $25 late penalty, for $85.
5
Submit and Confirm Filing
Review everything for accuracy before you submit. Georgia processes online annual registrations immediately with no expedite fee, so you can save the confirmation the same day. If you need proof of standing for a bank or a counterparty, a Certificate of Existence is a separate $20 request.

Do You Need a Paid Service to File?

No. You can file this report yourself, using the filing method in the table above, and pay only the state's own fee shown there, with no service fee on top.

Hiring a registered agent service is a separate choice, and it is optional too. Every LLC must keep a registered agent, but 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. The Georgia registered agent requirements set out what Georgia itself asks.

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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 missing a deadline can cost the company its good standing or, in many states, its existence.

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Frequently Asked Questions

: Filing after April 1 costs a flat $25 late penalty on top of the $60 annual registration, so $85 in total. The Corporations Division fee schedule lists it as "Penalty for Late Filing of Annual Registration $25.00," the same online or on paper, and Georgia's guidance is that a mailed envelope must be postmarked by April 1 to avoid it. The penalty does not escalate month by month; $25 is the whole of it. What does escalate is your entity status. A Georgia rule provides that an LLC that fails to file its annual registration with the correct fee "may be subjected to administrative dissolution or revocation" under Georgia law. An administratively dissolved LLC is off the active roll, which is what a bank, lender, or counterparty sees when it looks you up. Reinstating a domestic Georgia LLC costs $260, a $250 fee plus the $10 service charge, and Georgia law requires the application within five years of the administrative dissolution. If you have already missed April 1, file the overdue registration through sos.ga.gov and pay the $25 with it. If you are still inside the window, file any time between January 1 and April 1.
: Georgia calls the filing an annual registration, and you can submit it online through the Secretary of State's Corporations Division at sos.ga.gov or on paper by mail. Online is the better route: Georgia processes online annual registrations immediately with no expedite fee, while paper goes into the normal queue. To file online, open the Corporations Division portal, look up your LLC by name or control number, and confirm or update your registered agent, principal office address, and member or manager information. The fee is $60, which the fee schedule effective September 6, 2025 breaks out as a $50 base fee plus a $10 service charge, and it is the same total by mail. Georgia also lets you cover one, two, or three consecutive calendar years in one submission, at the same rate per year, but prepaid fees are not refunded if the LLC ends early. The registration is due between January 1 and April 1 of each year. A newly formed LLC does not file in its formation year: a Georgia rule puts the first registration between January 1 and April 1 of the year following the calendar year of the formation filing, so an LLC created in November 2026 owes its first $60 registration by April 1, 2027. Filing after April 1 adds a $25 penalty, and continued failure to file with the correct fee can lead to administrative dissolution or revocation. Your next step: log in at sos.ga.gov, confirm your LLC's status, and locate your control number before the window closes.
: The Georgia LLC annual registration costs $60 a year. The Corporations Division fee schedule effective September 6, 2025 shows it as a $50 base fee plus a $10 service charge, and it lists the identical $60 in both the online and the paper column, so mailing it saves nothing. Older guidance quoting a $10 online discount is out of date. Payment is by credit card, debit card, or electronic check in the portal, or by check with a mailed filing. Georgia lets you register for one, two, or three consecutive calendar years at once at the same annual rate, though a Georgia rule says those prepaid fees are not refunded if the LLC is terminated, dissolved, merged out of existence, withdrawn, administratively dissolved, or revoked before the period ends. File between January 1 and April 1; after that the fee schedule adds a flat $25 late penalty, taking the total to $85, and an LLC that keeps failing to file with the correct fee can be administratively dissolved or revoked, with reinstatement then costing $260. Submit at sos.ga.gov well before April 1 so a payment problem does not push you past the date.
: Georgia's annual registration is due between January 1 and April 1 of each year. The rule is a window, not a single date: every LLC registered to do business in the state files in that first quarter, and Georgia's own guidance is that a mailed envelope must be postmarked by April 1. Your formation date does not move the deadline; it only decides which year you start. Under a Georgia rule, a newly formed domestic LLC or a newly qualified foreign LLC files its first annual registration between January 1 and April 1 of the year following the calendar year of that registration filing, so an LLC created in November 2026 owes its first $60 registration by April 1, 2027 rather than anything in 2026. The fee is $60, a $50 base fee plus a $10 service charge, the same online or by mail. Filing after April 1 adds a flat $25 penalty, for $85, and an LLC that fails to file with the correct fee may be subjected to administrative dissolution or revocation under Georgia law. File at sos.ga.gov as soon as the window opens on January 1.
: No. Every LLC registered to do business in Georgia, domestic or foreign, files an annual registration between January 1 and April 1 each year, regardless of activity level, revenue, or whether the business ever traded. An inactive or zero-revenue LLC still owes the $60. The only thing that ends the obligation is ending the entity. An LLC that has been voluntarily dissolved, merged out of existence, or withdrawn is no longer registered and no longer files, but dissolution is a separate filing with its own paperwork rather than a way to skip a deadline. Note too that if you prepaid two or three years of registration, Georgia does not refund the unused years when the LLC ends early. What does vary is when you start. A Georgia rule puts a new LLC's first annual registration between January 1 and April 1 of the year following the calendar year of the formation filing, so an LLC formed in December 2026 files first by April 1, 2027. Missing April 1 adds a flat $25 penalty and, if the failure continues, exposes the LLC to administrative dissolution or revocation, with reinstatement at $260. Mark the January 1 to April 1 window on your calendar and file through the Corporations Division portal at sos.ga.gov.

Sources

10 documents

Each entry below is a document recorded in our verified Georgia 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.

Georgia regulation: Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 590-7-22-.08 (failure to file annual registration)
Georgia statute: Title 14 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (dissolution provisions)
Georgia statute: O.C.G.A. 14-11-603 (reinstatement deadline)
Georgia rule: Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 590-7-22-.10 (no refund of prepaid fees)
Georgia rule: Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 590-7-22-.02 (first annual registration)
Georgia statute: Title 14 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (business entity law)
sos.ga.gov/how-to-guide/filing-fees-and-expedited-processing-document-filingsGeorgia Secretary of State: business entity filings
rules.sos.ga.gov/gac/590-7-22Georgia statute: Annual Registration
law.onecle.com/georgia/title-14/14-11-1103.htmlGeorgia statutory text, unofficial mirror: Annual Registration
ecorp.sos.ga.gov/oneClickARGeorgia Secretary of State: file the Annual Registration

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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.

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When is the Georgia LLC annual report due, and what does it cost?

How do you file the Georgia LLC annual report?

Gather Required LLC Information

Access the Georgia SOS Filing Portal

Complete the Annual Registration

Pay the $60 Annual Registration Fee

Submit and Confirm Filing