Minnesota's annual filing is the Annual Renewal. It costs $0 and is due by December 31 every calendar year after the year you form, and there is no late window if you miss it.
Filing the Minnesota annual report, with the state's own fee and deadline. Source: Minnesota Secretary of State.
How do you file the Minnesota LLC annual report?
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Visit the Minnesota Secretary of State website
Go to sos.mn.gov and open the business filings section to reach the online filing system for the LLC annual renewal. Your first renewal is not due in the year you form: under Minnesota law the obligation starts in the calendar year following the year your articles of organization were filed, so an LLC formed in 2026 files its first renewal by December 31, 2027.
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Locate your LLC in the system
Enter your LLC's name or file number to find your business record. You'll need your registered business information to proceed with the filing.
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Complete the annual report form
Complete the annual renewal, updating your LLC's current information including registered office address, registered agent details, and member or manager information as required.
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Review and submit your filing
Carefully review all information for accuracy, then submit the renewal on or before December 31. Minnesota charges no fee for the annual renewal, so there is nothing to pay at submission.
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Save your confirmation
Print or save the confirmation page as proof of filing. Keep this documentation with your LLC records for future reference and compliance tracking.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Minnesota does not charge a late fee, because it does not give you a late window. Miss December 31 and, under Minnesota law, the Secretary of State administratively terminates the LLC, or revokes a foreign LLC's authority to do business in the state. There is no penalty stage in between, so the free filing you skipped turns into a terminated entity rather than a bill. Getting the LLC back requires an Annual Reinstatement, which costs $25 by mail or $45 in person or online, and the annual renewal itself remains free. Minnesota law lets a terminated LLC reinstate retroactively at any time by filing a single annual renewal with the $25 fee, restoring it as of the termination date. The practical advice is simple: the renewal is free and takes minutes, so file it in the fall rather than the last week of December, and file it at sos.mn.gov the moment you realize a year was missed.
Minnesota's annual filing is the Annual Renewal, filed online through the Minnesota Secretary of State's business filings system at sos.mn.gov. There is no fee, so there is no payment step at all.
The deadline is December 31 of each calendar year, the same date for every LLC regardless of when you formed. Your first renewal is due in the calendar year after the year your articles of organization were filed, under Minnesota law, so an LLC formed in 2026 files its first renewal by December 31, 2027.
The renewal asks you to confirm your LLC's name and file number, its registered office address, the registered agent, and current manager or member information. Nothing else is required, and there is no supporting documentation to attach.
Missing the deadline does not produce a late fee. It produces administrative termination under Minnesota law, after which restoring the LLC takes an Annual Reinstatement at $25 by mail or $45 in person or online. Log in at sos.mn.gov, look up your LLC, confirm the details, and submit. Keep the confirmation as proof of timely filing.
The Minnesota annual renewal is free. The Secretary of State charges $0 to file it, whether your LLC is generating revenue or sitting dormant, which puts Minnesota among the cheapest states in the country to keep an LLC in good standing.
The deadline is December 31 each year, starting the calendar year after the year you filed your articles of organization. There is no late fee for missing it, because Minnesota does not offer a late window. Under Minnesota law the Secretary of State administratively terminates an LLC that fails to renew.
That makes the real cost of the renewal the cost of forgetting it. Bringing a terminated LLC back requires an Annual Reinstatement, priced at $25 by mail or $45 in person or online. A free filing missed is the only way this line item ever costs you anything.
Your next step: open your LLC's record at sos.mn.gov well before December 31, confirm the registered agent and office address, and submit the renewal.
Every Minnesota LLC annual renewal is due by December 31, and the date is the same for all of them regardless of formation date. Minnesota does not use an anniversary-month system. The one timing rule that changes by LLC is the first year: under Minnesota law the renewal obligation begins in the calendar year following the calendar year in which you filed your articles of organization, so an LLC formed in 2026 owes its first renewal by December 31, 2027, not by December 31, 2026. The filing costs $0 and is submitted through the Minnesota Secretary of State's business filings system at sos.mn.gov. There is no late fee if you miss December 31, and that is not good news: Minnesota law has the Secretary of State administratively terminate the LLC instead, and reinstatement then costs $25 by mail or $45 in person or online. Set a recurring reminder for early December and file the renewal well before the holidays.
No. Every active Minnesota LLC files the annual renewal, and the Secretary of State grants no exemption based on size, revenue, or activity level. A dormant LLC with no income files the same renewal as an operating one.
The obligation runs as long as your LLC is on the Secretary of State's active rolls. The only timing exception is the first year: Minnesota law starts the obligation in the calendar year after the year your articles of organization were filed, so a 2026 LLC first renews by December 31, 2027.
The renewal costs $0 and is due by December 31 each year through the Secretary of State's online filing system. Failure to file does not generate a late fee; it results in administrative termination of the LLC under Minnesota law, which ends its authority to conduct business in Minnesota. An Annual Reinstatement at $25 by mail or $45 in person or online is what brings it back.
To stay compliant, calendar December 31 every year and file the free renewal at sos.mn.gov a few weeks early, whether or not the LLC did any business that year.
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Minnesota statute: Minn. Stat. 322C.0208 (annual renewal and termination)
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