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
Missing April 1 costs a flat $25 late penalty on top of the $60 annual registration, so $85 to bring the LLC current. The Corporations Division fee schedule lists that penalty as a single fixed amount, the same online or on paper, and it does not grow the longer you wait. There is no numbered late-filing form to hunt down: you file the overdue annual registration itself through the Corporations Division portal at sos.ga.gov and pay the penalty with it.
Missing the date does not dissolve the LLC on its own. Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 590-7-22-.08 provides that an LLC that fails to file its annual registration with the correct fee may be subjected to administrative dissolution or revocation in accordance with Title 14 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated. It is a discretionary consequence of continued failure to file, not an automatic switch that flips on a set date, and Georgia does not publish a fixed number of missed years that triggers it.
If the LLC is administratively dissolved, reinstating a domestic Georgia LLC costs $260, a $250 fee plus the $10 service charge, and O.C.G.A. 14-11-603 requires the application within five years of the administrative dissolution. The practical damage in the meantime is the public record: an LLC that is not on the active roll is what a bank, lender, or counterparty sees when they look you up.
File the overdue registration through the Georgia Secretary of State's online portal now rather than waiting for the next window to open on January 1.
No. Georgia's newspaper notice-of-intent requirement applies to corporations, not to LLCs. Nothing in the Corporations Division's fee schedule or in Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. Subject 590-7-22 imposes a publication step or a publication fee on a limited liability company.
That is money and time you do not spend. New York, by contrast, requires notices once a week for six successive weeks in two newspapers designated by the county clerk, followed by a Certificate of Publication with the newspapers' affidavits and a $50 state fee; the newspaper cost starts around $200 in a low-cost upstate county and New York publishes no rate at all for New York City. Arizona requires publication too, and sets no official dollar figure because the newspaper's own rate card controls the price.
In Georgia your formation filing is the whole of it: Articles of Organization at $110, a $100 base fee plus the $10 service charge, the same online or on paper. Online filings are generally processed within 7 to 10 business days, paper in about 15.
Your next step: file the Articles of Organization with the Georgia Secretary of State's Corporations Division, with no newspaper notice to arrange afterward.
Yes, and online is the better route. Georgia's annual registration is filed through the Secretary of State's Corporations Division portal at sos.ga.gov, and the state processes online annual registrations immediately with no expedite fee, so you get confirmation the same session rather than waiting on mail. There is no numbered annual report form to download; you look your LLC up by name or control number and confirm or correct the record the Division already holds, including your registered agent, principal office address, and member or manager details. The fee is $60, a $50 base fee plus a $10 service charge, paid by credit card, debit card, or electronic check, and the paper route costs exactly the same $60 with none of the speed. File between January 1 and April 1; after April 1 the fee schedule adds a flat $25 penalty, and an LLC that keeps failing to file with the correct fee may be subjected to administrative dissolution or revocation. If you want to get ahead of it, Georgia lets you register for up to three consecutive calendar years in one submission, on the understanding that prepaid years are not refunded if the LLC ends early. Go to sos.ga.gov, find your LLC, and complete the registration before the window closes.
Before filing your Georgia annual registration, gather your registered agent's name and Georgia street address, your principal office address, and your LLC's control number from the formation filing or last year's registration. Confirm that the LLC's legal name matches the Articles of Organization exactly, since a mismatch is the usual reason a filing stalls. Note any change of member or manager since the last filing, along with names, titles, and addresses; Georgia asks you to keep the record current rather than to restate ownership percentages. Have the $60 ready as a credit card, debit card, or electronic check payment in the portal, and remember that a dishonored payment carries a $30 charge and can trigger dissolution proceedings if it is not cured within 60 days. The window opens January 1 and closes April 1, so assembling this in mid-January leaves room to fix a surprise. A brand new LLC has nothing to gather in its formation year: under Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 590-7-22-.02 the first registration is due between January 1 and April 1 of the following calendar year. Once you have the details in hand, file at sos.ga.gov, where online annual registrations are processed immediately.
Sources
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.
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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.
