STATE FOLIO — FL · VERIFIED 2026-11-04

Florida

Deadlines, agent rules, and the cost of a miss — kept by Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations (Sunbiz), checked against the state’s own publications on 2026-11-04. If a figure here ever disagrees with the state’s page, the state’s page governs and our re-verification queue takes the correction the same week.

Verified 2026-11-04 Full mail mirroring available

Filing window / due rule (LLC)

Annual report due by May 1 of each year (filing window January 1-May 1; check/money order payment voucher must be postmarked on or before May 1)

File number, as the state issues it

L############ (LLC) · P######## (corporation) — Sunbiz document number

Late charge (LLC)

$400 late charge (LLC)

The Florida deadline ledger

Recurring obligations by entity type — sample LLC formed March 15, 2024 for the dated lines

LLC — Annual Report

Open

Due May 1, 2027 · 176 days · Fee $138.75 · Exposure $538.75

Corporation — Annual Report

Open

Due May 1, 2027 · 176 days · Fee $150 · Exposure $550

Nonprofit — Annual Report

Open

Due May 1, 2027 · 176 days · Fee $61.25 · Exposure $61.25

LP — Annual Report

Open

Due May 1, 2027 · 176 days · Fee $500 · Exposure $900

Open exposure if every line were missed: $2,050 in state charges alone.

Nonprofit corporation fee note: State fee for the report itself, filed at Sunbiz.

Limited partnership fee note: State fee for the report itself, filed at Sunbiz.

Limited liability company late note: $400 late fee if filed after May 1; there is no provision to abate or waive the $400 late fee

Corporation (for-profit) late note: $400 late fee for profit corporations if filed after May 1; there is no provision to abate or waive the $400 late fee (not-for-profit corporations, $61.25 report fee, are not subject to the $400 late fee)

Nonprofit corporation late note: Nonprofit corporations are not subject to the $400 late fee — but an unfiled report still leads to administrative dissolution in September.

Limited partnership late note: A $400 late fee attaches to any report filed after May 1. Florida law provides no way to waive or abate it.

First report: The annual report is not due in the year the entity is formed; the first report is due in the January 1 to May 1 window of the following year.

Your exact dates depend on your formation date. Run the Entity Checkup and the ledger becomes yours — dated, with the late charges attached to the right cycles.

The Florida brief

Florida runs the most unforgiving calendar in this wave. You get a four-month window, January 1 to May 1, and then the meter starts with a $400 late fee that Florida law flatly refuses to waive. The state offers no expedited processing at any price, so there is no buying your way out of a late start. The one kindness in the system: the annual report is also the change vehicle. Officers, managers, addresses, and the registered agent itself can all be changed on the same filing, which makes May 1 the single date on which a Florida entity’s whole public record is either confirmed or goes stale.

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The registered agent in Florida

A registered agent name and address is required; the agent may be an individual or a registered business entity, an entity cannot serve as its own agent, and the registered office must be a Florida street address (post office box not acceptable); a new agent must electronically sign/accept the designation

The agent of record for every entity we serve is Registered Agents Inc, engaged through PNR Wholesale Services LLC — named before purchase, in the agreement, and here. We do not resell an unnamed network.

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What a miss costs in Florida

Failure to file by the 3rd Friday of September results in administrative dissolution or revocation at the close of business on the 4th Friday of September; reinstatement is available on application with fees due

The Dissolution Clock — Florida

The state’s own sequence, from the verified record: Failure to file by the 3rd Friday of September results in administrative dissolution or revocation at the close of business on the 4th Friday of September; reinstatement is available on application with fees due

May 1, each yearThe annual report window (January 1 – May 1) closes.
May 2The $400 late fee attaches — Florida law provides no waiver.
3rd Friday of SeptemberLast day to file before dissolution is entered.
4th Friday of SeptemberThe Division administratively dissolves the entity (or revokes a foreign entity’s authority). Reinstatement then costs the reinstatement fee plus every missed year’s report fee.

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Mail in Florida

Full mail mirroring is available in Florida. Service of process and official state mail are scanned to your portal, typically within 24 hours; ordinary business mail sent to your registered office address is mirrored on the same terms, under your mail plan. The physical originals stay on file; a service-of-process item also triggers a phone escalation until you acknowledge it.

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Switching your Florida agent to us

The switch is a relay, not a leap: the new agent is in place before the old one is released, and the change is proven on the state record — never assumed from a submitted form.

Successor filed

The new agent designation goes to the state first. State fee for this folio: $50 / $61.25 amended report (LLC / corp), at cost.

Read-back

The state record is read back. It must show the new agent before anything else moves.

Release

Only then is the old agent released. ~~Release first, file second~~ — that order leaves the entity with no agent, and it is never run. The shaded node is the no-agent-gap window the relay exists to close.

Instrument: On the annual report itself, an amended annual report, or the Division’s statement of change. State fee: $50 / $61.25 amended report (LLC / corp). No separate state fee applies when the change rides the annual report. An amended annual report costs $50 for an LLC and $61.25 for a corporation.

How the no-gap switch works, state by state

Florida questions, answered from the record

When is the Florida LLC annual report due?

Every year between January 1 and May 1. The report is not due in the year the LLC is formed; the first one is due in the following year’s window. File after May 1 and a $400 late fee attaches.

How much is the Florida annual report late fee?

$400 for profit corporations, LLCs, and limited partnerships — and Florida law has no provision to waive or abate it. Nonprofit corporations are exempt from the $400 fee but not from the report itself.

What happens if I never file my Florida annual report?

If no report is filed by the third Friday of September, the Division administratively dissolves the entity (or revokes a foreign entity’s authority) at the close of business on the fourth Friday of September. Reinstatement then costs the reinstatement fee plus every missed year’s report fee.

Can I change my Florida registered agent on the annual report?

Yes. The annual report lets you change the registered agent and registered office, along with officers, managers, and addresses, on the same filing. If you already filed this year’s report, an amended annual report ($50 for an LLC, $61.25 for a corporation) makes the change.

Can my Florida LLC be its own registered agent?

No. A business entity can serve as a registered agent for another entity, but it cannot serve as its own. An individual inside the business — an owner or officer — may serve personally.

Sources: Division of Corporations — File Annual Report; Division of Corporations — File Reinstatement (fee table); Division of Corporations — Division FAQs. Verification basis: primary-source verification, read 2026-11-04.

The rate card, and the order we open in

The Agent On File — agent, calendar, mail vault$149per entity, per year · renews at $149

Bundled — the annual filing included$199per entity, per year · renews at $199

Filing add-on — one cycle, prepared and filed$129added to the base plan, per use

Launch pricing, published before enrollment opens. State filing fees pass through at cost and are shown before anything is filed. The reminder tier — one entity’s ledger, watched and reminded — is free.

Enrollment is not open today. It opens when our wholesale fulfillment agreement is executed and a first test order has been completed and proven on the record. The founding list for Florida hears first — by state, in order. Questions before joining: write to the desk.