Indiana LLC compliance for 2026: the biennial Business Entity Report, its anniversary-month deadline, $31 online fee, registered agent rules, and state taxes.
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
Indiana's report is biennial, so you file every second year rather than annually. The Business Entity Report is due in the anniversary month of your LLC's formation, and the first one is not due until two years after formation. An LLC organized in July 2026 files in July 2028, then July 2030. The fee is $31 filed online through INBiz or $50 on paper with State Form 48725, which averages about $15.50 a year.
The biennial cycle halves the paperwork of an annual-report state: 15 filings over 30 years instead of 30. It also removes the usual deadline anxiety, because Indiana charges no late fee on an overdue Business Entity Report.
What it does not remove is the risk. Miss the report and the Secretary of State mails a notice of pending administrative dissolution carrying a date to cure, and the LLC is dissolved if that date passes. Set a recurring reminder for your anniversary month and file through INBiz at inbiz.in.gov.
Indiana assesses no late fee on a late Business Entity Report. INBiz states that there are no late fees, so a report filed after your anniversary month still costs the ordinary $31 online or $50 on paper. If you have missed more than one cycle you owe that fee for each cycle you skipped, which is how the cost grows.
The consequence is administrative rather than financial. The Secretary of State mails a notice headed "Pending Administrative Dissolution or Revocation of Registration" that carries the deadline to cure. Let that date pass and the LLC is administratively dissolved, which ends its good standing and complicates contracts, financing, and bank accounts. IC 23-0.5-6-2(b) gives 60 days after the notice to cure, and the date printed on your notice is the one to work from.
Reinstatement costs a $30 fee plus the filing fee for every report year still owed, and it cannot start until the Indiana Department of Revenue issues a Certificate of Clearance (Form AD-19 with Form ROC-1), which the Secretary of State says takes at least four weeks. An entity dissolved for more than five years can no longer reinstate at all, in any channel. Call the Business Services Division at (317) 232-6576 if you are unsure where you stand.
Yes. Indiana law requires every LLC to maintain a registered agent with a physical Indiana address, available during business hours to accept lawsuits and official notices. The agent is named on your Articles of Organization, State Form 49459, and confirmed each cycle on the Business Entity Report.
You can act as your own registered agent if you have a physical Indiana street address. A PO Box does not qualify. A commercial registered agent service typically runs $75 to $150 a year. Letting the role lapse is serious: failing to maintain a registered agent is by itself grounds for the Secretary of State to administratively dissolve the LLC, and you also risk never seeing a summons.
Your Business Entity Report is due in your formation anniversary month every second year, and that filing is the natural moment to confirm the agent's details. If the agent changes between reports, update the record through INBiz rather than waiting for the next cycle.
Next step: check the registered agent shown on your entity's INBiz record and correct it if it is out of date.
Yes. INBiz at inbiz.in.gov is Indiana's official business filing system, reached from the Secretary of State's business pages at in.gov/sos/business. You can file the Business Entity Report there, view your entity's record, and confirm the exact due date the state has on file. The online fee is $31, paid by credit card or e-check, with immediate confirmation; paper filers pay $50 using State Form 48725.
The report is due every second year in the anniversary month of formation, and the first one falls two years after formation. Indiana charges no late fee if you are past due, but an unfiled report eventually leads to administrative dissolution. INBiz also lets you update your principal office address or registered agent at the same time, which saves a separate filing.
Before you log in, have your entity name or business ID from your formation documents to hand, then bookmark inbiz.in.gov for your next deadline.
Sources
Each entry below is a document recorded in our verified Indiana 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.
