STATE FOLIO — NC · VERIFIED 2026-11-05

North Carolina

Deadlines, agent rules, and the cost of a miss — kept by North Carolina Secretary of State, Business Registration Division, checked against the state’s own publications on 2026-11-05. 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 2026-11-05 State mail + process scans

Filing window / due rule (LLC)

Annual report due April 15 of each year after the year of creation (SOS Annual Report Due Dates page)

File number, as the state issues it

SOS ID number — Secretary of State business search

Late charge (LLC)

No flat late fee published — see the record

The North Carolina deadline ledger

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

LLC — Annual Report

Open

Due April 15, 2027 · 160 days · Fee $200 · Exposure $200

Corporation — Annual Report

Open

Due April 15, 2027 · 160 days · Fee $25 · Exposure $25

Open exposure if every line were missed: $225 in state charges alone.

Limited liability company fee note: Corporation fee shown is the $25.00 paper fee; the Secretary of State lists online filing at $21.00 (including the electronic filing fee). Computed corporation dates on this desk assume a December fiscal year end — the state’s own example case; a corporation with a different fiscal year end is due on the 15th day of the fourth month after that year end instead.

Corporation (for-profit) fee note: Corporation fee shown is the $25.00 paper fee; the Secretary of State lists online filing at $21.00 (including the electronic filing fee). Computed corporation dates on this desk assume a December fiscal year end — the state’s own example case; a corporation with a different fiscal year end is due on the 15th day of the fourth month after that year end instead.

Limited liability company late note: No late fee stated on the SOS pages read; fee shown is the $200 paper fee — SOS lists online filing at $203.00, noting the fee includes a $3.00 electronic filing fee for credit cards ($2.00 for ACH)

Corporation (for-profit) late note: No late fee stated on the SOS pages read; fee shown is the $25.00 paper fee — SOS lists online filing at $21.00 on the due-dates page (noted there as including an electronic filing fee)

First report: LLCs: the first annual report is due April 15 of the year after the year of creation. Corporations have no separate first-report rule: the first report is due on the same fiscal rule as every report — the 15th day of the fourth month after the close of the fiscal year (G.S. 55-16-22(c)).

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 North Carolina brief

North Carolina runs two different calendars under one roof, and quoting one for the other is the classic North Carolina error. An LLC owes a $200 annual report every April 15, starting the April after the year it was created. A corporation owes a far cheaper report — $25 on paper, $21 online — on a fiscal rule: the 15th day of the fourth month after its fiscal year ends, which is April 15 only for a December year-end. North Carolina charges no late fee for either report. What it charges instead is time: miss by 60 days and the ground for administrative dissolution exists; the Secretary mails notice, and 60 days after that notice the dissolution can be entered by certificate. The cure is priced just as plainly — a $100 reinstatement application, plus $200 for every delinquent LLC report.

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The registered agent in North Carolina

Every entity registered with SOS requires a registered agent to accept service of process (SOS Registered Agent pages): an individual who resides in NC, or a domestic/foreign corporation, nonprofit or LLC registered and authorized in NC whose business office is identical with the registered office; the agent must continuously maintain a physical registered office in NC

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 North Carolina

Administrative dissolution under N.C. G.S. 57D-6-06: failure to deliver the annual report on or before the 60th day after it is due is a ground for administrative dissolution; the Secretary of State shall mail notice of the determination, and if the LLC does not correct each ground within 60 days after the notice is mailed, the Secretary shall dissolve it by certificate. Reinstatement follows the G.S. 55-14-22 to 55-14-24 procedure; SOS reinstatement pages price it at a $100 application plus $200 per delinquent annual report. NC charges no monetary late fee.

The Dissolution Clock — North Carolina

The state’s own sequence, from the verified record: Administrative dissolution under N.C. G.S. 57D-6-06: failure to deliver the annual report on or before the 60th day after it is due is a ground for administrative dissolution; the Secretary of State shall mail notice of the determination, and if the LLC does not correct each ground within 60 days after the notice is mailed, the Secretary shall dissolve it by certificate. Reinstatement follows the G.S. 55-14-22 to 55-14-24 procedure; SOS reinstatement pages price it at a $100 application plus $200 per delinquent annual report. NC charges no monetary late fee.

April 15 (LLC) · 15th day of the 4th month after fiscal year end (corp)The annual report falls due — $200 for an LLC, $25 paper / $21 online for a corporation. No late fee attaches.
60 days after the due dateNon-delivery becomes a ground for administrative dissolution (G.S. 57D-6-06 for LLCs; G.S. 55-14-20(2) for corporations, delinquency presumed at 60 days).
Notice mailed, then 60 daysThe Secretary of State mails notice of the determination; if each ground is not corrected within 60 days after the notice is mailed, the Secretary dissolves the entity by certificate.
On reinstatementThe G.S. 55-14-22 procedure: a $100 application, plus $200 for every delinquent LLC annual report. Reinstatement relates back.

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Mail in North Carolina

In North Carolina, service of process and official state mail are scanned to your portal, typically within 24 hours. Full business-mail mirroring is not offered in North Carolina yet — when it opens, this page will say so with a date.

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Switching your North Carolina 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: $5, 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: Statement of Change of Registered Office and/or Registered Agent (Form BE-06), filed with the Secretary of State, Business Registration Division. State fee: $5. State fee per the Secretary of State’s Business Registration Manual (BE-06 listed at $5.00), read 2026-11-05. A corporation’s statement of change carries the same $5 under G.S. 55-1-22.

How the no-gap switch works, state by state

North Carolina questions, answered from the record

When is the North Carolina LLC annual report due?

April 15 of each year after the year of creation — a company created in 2025 owes its first report on April 15, 2026. The fee is $200 on paper, $203 filed online (the online price includes the electronic filing fee).

When is the North Carolina corporation annual report due?

On the 15th day of the fourth month following the corporation’s fiscal year end — April 15 for a December year-end, which is the case the computed dates on this folio assume. A corporation whose year ends in June is due October 15. The fee is $25 on paper, $21 online.

Does North Carolina charge a late fee for the annual report?

No monetary late fee is published for either entity type. The consequence is a clock, not a fine: failure to deliver the report on or before the 60th day after it is due is a ground for administrative dissolution (G.S. 57D-6-06 for LLCs; G.S. 55-14-20(2) for corporations).

What happens after North Carolina moves to dissolve my company?

The Secretary of State mails written notice of the determination. If the company does not correct each ground within 60 days after the notice is mailed, the Secretary dissolves it by certificate. Reinstatement follows the G.S. 55-14-22 procedure: a $100 application, plus $200 for every delinquent LLC annual report.

How much does it cost to change a North Carolina registered agent?

The state fee is $5 — Form BE-06, the Statement of Change of Registered Office and/or Registered Agent, per the Secretary of State’s Business Registration Manual. Corporations pay the same $5 for their statement of change.

Does The Agent On File mirror my business mail in North Carolina?

Not yet. North Carolina is not one of the twenty states in the full mail-mirroring plan, so North Carolina service is process and official state mail, scanned to your portal, typically within 24 hours. When full mirroring opens in North Carolina, this folio will say so with a date.

Sources: Secretary of State — Annual Report Due Dates; N.C.G.S. § 57D-6-06 — grounds for administrative dissolution (LLC); N.C.G.S. §§ 55-14-20 to 55-14-22 — administrative dissolution and reinstatement (corporation); Secretary of State — Business Registration Manual (Form BE-06, statement of change, $5.00). Verification basis: per-state compliance dataset v1, primary-source verified 2026-11-04; due dates and fees re-read against the Secretary of State’s Annual Report Due Dates page on 2026-11-05.

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 North Carolina hears first — by state, in order. Questions before joining: write to the desk.