Virginia LLC Annual Compliance Requirements (2026)
Virginia LLC compliance for 2026: the $50 annual registration fee (not an annual report), its anniversary-month due date, the $25 late penalty, and agent rules.
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
Virginia LLCs do not file an annual report, so what you are paying is the $50 annual registration fee. Sign in to the Clerk's Information System (CIS) at scc.virginia.gov, find your LLC by entity name or ID number, and open the annual registration fee payment. There is no report form to complete and no member list to file.
The SCC assesses the fee and sends notification two months before it is due, and you may not pay before being assessed, so wait for that notice rather than trying to pay ahead. Payment is by credit card or eCheck, and the SCC charges no processing fee for paying the annual registration fee online.
Your deadline is the last day of the month your LLC was organized or registered, not a statewide date. A payment received after that adds a $25 penalty, regardless of weekends or holidays.
Save the confirmation. It is the cleanest proof of good standing you will have when a lender, a landlord, or a contracting officer asks for one.
The State Corporation Commission adds a $25 penalty to the $50 annual registration fee, so a late year costs $75. The penalty attaches to any payment not received on or before the due date, regardless of weekends or holidays, and there is no discretionary grace day.
What follows is more serious than the penalty. An LLC that still has not paid is cancelled on the last day of the third month following the due date. The SCC's own example is an LLC organized in April: if the fee is unpaid, the entity is cancelled by the last business day of July.
Reinstating a cancelled Virginia LLC is done on form LLC1050.4P and costs $100 plus every unpaid fee, so the cheapest outcome of a missed date is $75 and the most expensive climbs from there.
If you have missed your month, pay through the Clerk's Information System at scc.virginia.gov right away, or call the SCC Clerk's Office at (804) 371-9733 to confirm exactly where your entity stands.
Yes. Every Virginia LLC must maintain a registered agent with a physical Virginia street address, available during normal business hours to accept service of process and official notices. You can act as your own agent if you have a Virginia street address, appoint another qualifying individual or entity, or hire a commercial registered agent service, which commonly runs $75 to $300 a year.
The agent's name and registered office address are set out in your Articles of Organization, form LLC1011, and are kept current through a change filing in the Clerk's Information System at scc.virginia.gov. That is a separate filing from the annual registration fee payment.
Letting the role lapse is a compliance problem in its own right, and a stale address means you may never receive a summons. If you move out of state or switch agents, file the change straight away rather than waiting for a deadline.
Your annual registration fee is due on the last day of your formation month, so treat the SCC's assessment notice, which arrives two months earlier, as an annual prompt to check the agent details as well.
Yes. A Virginia LLC bidding for federal work registers in SAM.gov, the federal System for Award Management, which issues a Unique Entity ID at registration. The UEI replaced the DUNS number in April 2022, so a Dun & Bradstreet number is no longer part of the process. Defense work also involves a CAGE code, assigned by the Defense Logistics Agency.
None of that substitutes for staying in good standing at home. Your Virginia obligation is the $50 annual registration fee, assessed by the State Corporation Commission and due on the last day of the month your LLC was organized. Virginia has no Secretary of State for business filings, and LLCs here do not file an annual report. Miss the fee and a $25 penalty applies; leave it unpaid and the LLC is cancelled on the last day of the third month after the due date, which is not a status you want a contracting officer to find.
You will also need an EIN from the IRS, and depending on the contract, procedures for handling Controlled Unclassified Information, background checks for key personnel, and cybersecurity controls to NIST standards.
SAM registration and entity validation are not instant, so start well before a bid deadline. Virginia's Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity is a reasonable first call for help with the state side.
Sources
Each entry below is a document recorded in our verified Virginia 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.
