Does Missouri require LLC annual reports?

No. The Secretary of State's business FAQ puts the question and answers it in a single word: "Do limited liability companies have to file an annual report?" "No." The fee schedule proves it independently. Missouri's LLC fee statute lists every fee the Secretary of State may charge an LLC, in fifteen subdivisions. None of them is an annual report, a late fee or a reinstatement. The LLC chapter's section index contains no annual or periodic report section at all. The recurring cost of a Missouri LLC to the Secretary of State is $0. Not a waived fee, not a $0 filing: no filing.

Where do the April 15 deadline and the $50 fee come from, then?

From the corporation chapter, and even there the details do not match. Missouri corporations file a corporate registration report. Missouri law makes it due "the month that the corporation incorporated or qualified," so it is an anniversary-month deadline, not April 15. The law sets the fee at $40 written or $15 electronic, and the Secretary of State's fee schedule, which adds $5 for the technology fund, prices the annual registration report at $45 on paper and $20 online. If a corporation files late, the law charges "a late fee of fifteen dollars for each thirty-day period," and after ninety days "the secretary of state may proceed with administrative dissolution." None of that reaches an LLC. If you have read that a Missouri LLC owes $50 or $55 or $85 by April 15, the figure is not a stale LLC fee. It corresponds to nothing in Missouri law.

Can a Missouri LLC be administratively dissolved?

No. Missouri has no administrative dissolution for LLCs, and there is no LLC equivalent of the corporate dissolution rule anywhere in Missouri's LLC law. Missouri law gives an exclusive list of the events that dissolve an LLC: the events specified in the operating agreement or articles, the written consent of all members, an event of withdrawal of a member, having no members, a court decree, or failing to survive a merger. The only involuntary route is a court. The law allows the circuit court to dissolve an LLC on the Attorney General's application where it "procured its articles of organization through fraud," "exceeded or abused the authority conferred upon it by law," operated "in a fraudulent or illegal manner," or abused its powers contrary to public policy. A member may also apply, on grounds such as deadlock or abandonment. Because there is no administrative dissolution, there is also no reinstatement filing, no reinstatement form and no reinstatement fee for a Missouri LLC. Rescission of administrative dissolution is a corporation procedure under Missouri law.

Are there any ongoing filing requirements for a Missouri LLC?

With the Secretary of State, only maintaining a registered agent and registered office, which Missouri law requires you to "continuously maintain." There is no periodic confirmation of it. You file only when something changes, and the law sets the fee for a change of agent or office at $5, which the Secretary of State's fee schedule prices at $10 once the $5 technology fund charge is added. Everything else is tax rather than corporate filing. State law ties your Missouri income, sales and use, and employment security treatment to your federal classification, so your obligations there depend on how the LLC is taxed and whether it has employees or taxable sales. One narrow exception is worth naming: Missouri law requires a management-control affidavit, filed free with a city or county clerk, from LLCs owning rented or unoccupied real property in certain larger Missouri cities and counties.

Does letting things lapse cost me my liability protection?

No, and Missouri is unusually explicit about it. Missouri law provides that a member or manager "is not liable, solely by reason of being a member or manager, or both, under a judgment, decree or order of a court, or in any other manner, for a debt, obligation or liability of the limited liability company." There is no good-standing condition and no filing-compliance condition in the text. The law goes further: "failure to file articles of amendment, a notice of winding up or articles of termination shall not be grounds for imposing liability on any person for the debts and obligations of the limited liability company." Even the corporation rule people borrow from does not say what is often claimed. Missouri's corporation law keeps an administratively dissolved corporation in existence and reaches only an officer or director who carries on business outside winding up. It does not dissolve a shield. What does put your liability protection at risk in Missouri is the same thing that does anywhere: commingling funds, undercapitalizing, or using the LLC as an alter ego. Those are judicial doctrines, not filing rules.

How do I check my Missouri LLC's status?

Search your entity on the Secretary of State's business entity search at sos.mo.gov. For an LLC the status reflects whether the entity is active, has filed articles of termination, or has been dissolved by a court, not whether a report is outstanding, because none can be. If you need documentary proof, order a certificate of good standing; Missouri's LLC fee statute includes its fee. From August 28, 2026 a new section added by two Missouri bills deals specifically with certificates of good standing for LLCs and registered series. This page is general information about Missouri's statutes and filing requirements, not legal or tax advice.

Missouri LLC Annual Report: Not Required

There is no report, no deadline and no fee. The Secretary of State's own FAQ answers the question in one word. Here is what Missouri does require, and where the April 15 deadlines you may have read about actually come from.

By Edmond Hui · Last updated: August 2026

Missouri LLCs have no annual report requirement. There is no recurring report to file with the state. See details below.

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Does a Missouri LLC file an annual report?

Due Date	None required
Fee	No annual report required
Filing Method	Not applicable, there is no report to file
Late Penalty	None. There is no filing that can be late.
Official state page	www.sos.mo.gov

Step diagram for Missouri LLC compliance, showing the 5 steps a state that requires no annual report still asks of an LLC. — What Missouri asks of an LLC each year, in a state that requires no annual report. Source: Missouri Secretary of State.

What, if anything, does a Missouri LLC file each year?

1
Confirm there is nothing to file
The Missouri Secretary of State's business FAQ asks "Do limited liability companies have to file an annual report?" and answers, in full, "No." The statute is stronger evidence than the FAQ: it is a closed list of the fifteen fees the Secretary "shall charge and collect" from an LLC, covering organization, foreign registration, amendment, termination, merger, winding up, good standing certificates, name reservation and agent changes. There is no annual report fee, no late fee and no reinstatement fee anywhere in it.
2
Keep a registered agent and registered office
This is the one genuinely continuous obligation. Missouri law requires every LLC to "have and continuously maintain in this state" a registered office and "a registered agent for service of any process, notice or demand." The law sets the fee for changing either at $5, and the Secretary of State's published fee schedule charges $10, a figure that includes the $5 technology fund charge added to most filings. Unlike the corporation chapter, the LLC chapter attaches no penalty to letting an agent lapse, but service of process still has to reach you.
3
Handle your tax filings, which are separate from the Secretary of State
Missouri law classifies an LLC for Missouri income tax, sales and use tax and employment security "on a basis consistent with the limited liability company's classification for federal income tax purposes." So a single-member LLC is disregarded, a multi-member one files as a partnership, and Missouri follows whatever election you made federally. Missouri's corporate franchise tax is not a factor: Missouri law provides that "for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2016, no annual franchise tax shall be imposed," and it applied only to corporations organized under Missouri's corporation law in any case.
4
Check the rental-property affidavit if it applies to you
Missouri law requires an LLC that owns rented or unoccupied real property in Kansas City, in cities within the population bands the law names, or in a county over one million people, to file a management-control affidavit with the city or county clerk. It is a local filing rather than a Secretary of State one, and the law states that "no limited liability company shall be charged a fee" for it. Most LLCs never encounter it, but a rental-property owner should not read "Missouri LLCs file nothing" too broadly.
5
Order a certificate of good standing when someone asks for proof
Because there is no annual filing, there is no acknowledgement to show a bank or a counterparty. A certificate of good standing from the Secretary of State is the document that serves that purpose. Note that two Missouri bills add a new section dealing specifically with certificates of good standing for LLCs and LLC series, effective August 28, 2026. Neither bill creates an annual report or administrative dissolution for LLCs.

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

: No. The Secretary of State's business FAQ puts the question and answers it in a single word: "Do limited liability companies have to file an annual report?" "No." The fee schedule proves it independently. Missouri's LLC fee statute lists every fee the Secretary of State may charge an LLC, in fifteen subdivisions. None of them is an annual report, a late fee or a reinstatement. The LLC chapter's section index contains no annual or periodic report section at all. The recurring cost of a Missouri LLC to the Secretary of State is $0. Not a waived fee, not a $0 filing: no filing.
: From the corporation chapter, and even there the details do not match. Missouri corporations file a corporate registration report. Missouri law makes it due "the month that the corporation incorporated or qualified," so it is an anniversary-month deadline, not April 15. The law sets the fee at $40 written or $15 electronic, and the Secretary of State's fee schedule, which adds $5 for the technology fund, prices the annual registration report at $45 on paper and $20 online. If a corporation files late, the law charges "a late fee of fifteen dollars for each thirty-day period," and after ninety days "the secretary of state may proceed with administrative dissolution." None of that reaches an LLC. If you have read that a Missouri LLC owes $50 or $55 or $85 by April 15, the figure is not a stale LLC fee. It corresponds to nothing in Missouri law.
: No. Missouri has no administrative dissolution for LLCs, and there is no LLC equivalent of the corporate dissolution rule anywhere in Missouri's LLC law. Missouri law gives an exclusive list of the events that dissolve an LLC: the events specified in the operating agreement or articles, the written consent of all members, an event of withdrawal of a member, having no members, a court decree, or failing to survive a merger. The only involuntary route is a court. The law allows the circuit court to dissolve an LLC on the Attorney General's application where it "procured its articles of organization through fraud," "exceeded or abused the authority conferred upon it by law," operated "in a fraudulent or illegal manner," or abused its powers contrary to public policy. A member may also apply, on grounds such as deadlock or abandonment. Because there is no administrative dissolution, there is also no reinstatement filing, no reinstatement form and no reinstatement fee for a Missouri LLC. Rescission of administrative dissolution is a corporation procedure under Missouri law.
: With the Secretary of State, only maintaining a registered agent and registered office, which Missouri law requires you to "continuously maintain." There is no periodic confirmation of it. You file only when something changes, and the law sets the fee for a change of agent or office at $5, which the Secretary of State's fee schedule prices at $10 once the $5 technology fund charge is added. Everything else is tax rather than corporate filing. State law ties your Missouri income, sales and use, and employment security treatment to your federal classification, so your obligations there depend on how the LLC is taxed and whether it has employees or taxable sales. One narrow exception is worth naming: Missouri law requires a management-control affidavit, filed free with a city or county clerk, from LLCs owning rented or unoccupied real property in certain larger Missouri cities and counties.
: No, and Missouri is unusually explicit about it. Missouri law provides that a member or manager "is not liable, solely by reason of being a member or manager, or both, under a judgment, decree or order of a court, or in any other manner, for a debt, obligation or liability of the limited liability company." There is no good-standing condition and no filing-compliance condition in the text. The law goes further: "failure to file articles of amendment, a notice of winding up or articles of termination shall not be grounds for imposing liability on any person for the debts and obligations of the limited liability company." Even the corporation rule people borrow from does not say what is often claimed. Missouri's corporation law keeps an administratively dissolved corporation in existence and reaches only an officer or director who carries on business outside winding up. It does not dissolve a shield. What does put your liability protection at risk in Missouri is the same thing that does anywhere: commingling funds, undercapitalizing, or using the LLC as an alter ego. Those are judicial doctrines, not filing rules.
: Search your entity on the Secretary of State's business entity search at sos.mo.gov. For an LLC the status reflects whether the entity is active, has filed articles of termination, or has been dissolved by a court, not whether a report is outstanding, because none can be. If you need documentary proof, order a certificate of good standing; Missouri's LLC fee statute includes its fee. From August 28, 2026 a new section added by two Missouri bills deals specifically with certificates of good standing for LLCs and registered series. This page is general information about Missouri's statutes and filing requirements, not legal or tax advice.

Sources

22 documents

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

Missouri statute: RSMo 347.179 (LLC filing fees)
Missouri statute: RSMo 347.030.1 (registered office and agent)
Missouri statute: RSMo 347.179.1(12) (change of agent fee)
Missouri statute: Chapter 347 (Missouri LLC Act)
Missouri statute: RSMo 347.187.2 (tax classification)
Missouri statute: RSMo 147.010.1(5) (franchise tax repeal)
Missouri statute: Chapter 351 (Missouri corporation law)
Missouri statute: RSMo 347.048 (management-control affidavit)
Missouri statute: RSMo 347.048.3 (no affidavit fee)
Missouri law: House Bill 2508 and Senate Bill 1142, adding RSMo 347.044 (LLC good standing certificates)
Missouri statute: RSMo 351.120.3 (corporate report due date)
Missouri statute: RSMo 351.125 (corporate report fee and late fee)
Missouri statute: RSMo 351.484 (corporate administrative dissolution)
Missouri statute: RSMo 347.137.1 (events of dissolution)
Missouri statute: RSMo 347.143 (court-ordered dissolution)
Missouri statute: RSMo 351.488 (corporate rescission of dissolution)
Missouri statute: RSMo 347.057 (member liability shield)
Missouri statute: RSMo 347.053.2 (no liability for missed filings)
Missouri statute: RSMo 351.486.3 (dissolved corporations)
sos.mo.gov/business/corporationsMissouri Secretary of State: business entity filings
revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=347.048Missouri statute: annual report exemption
revisor.mo.gov/main/OneChapter.aspx?chapter=347Missouri statute: annual report exemption

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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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Does a Missouri LLC file an annual report?

What, if anything, does a Missouri LLC file each year?

Confirm there is nothing to file

Keep a registered agent and registered office

Handle your tax filings, which are separate from the Secretary of State

Check the rental-property affidavit if it applies to you

Order a certificate of good standing when someone asks for proof