Georgia LLC Annual Requirements: The Annual Registration

Does Georgia require an annual report? Yes. Georgia's official name for it is the Annual Registration, filed every year with the Secretary of State's Corporations Division under O.C.G.A. § 14-11-1103. If you search for "Georgia annual report," this is the filing you are looking for: same obligation, state-specific name. This page covers the deadline, the fee, the filing steps, and what happens if you miss it, plus the other obligations that keep a Georgia LLC in good standing.

When the Georgia Annual Registration Is Due

The filing window opens January 1 and closes April 1, every year, for every LLC. The deadline is a fixed calendar date, not your formation anniversary. Your first Annual Registration is due in the calendar year after the LLC was formed; a company organized in 2026 files its first registration between January 1 and April 1 of 2027. Foreign LLCs holding a Georgia Certificate of Authority file the same registration on the same schedule.

Georgia Annual Registration Fee

The fee is $60 all-in per year: a $50 statutory registration fee plus a $10 service charge, and the $60 total applies whether you file online or by mail. Georgia also lets you prepay up to three consecutive years in one filing: $60 for one year, $120 for two, $180 for three, which is a tidy way to stop thinking about the deadline for a while.

How to File the Georgia Annual Registration

1. Go to the eCorp portal at ecorp.sos.ga.gov and log in to your entity's record. If nothing about your LLC is changing and all fees are current, the no-login One Click Annual Registration works too.
2. Review what the state has on file. The LLC Annual Registration covers only the registered agent (with their Georgia county) and the principal office address; Georgia does not collect or list members or managers on this filing, and the entity's name and type cannot be changed here.
3. Update the registered agent or principal office if needed. Any change means using the full logged-in form rather than One Click.
4. Pay the $60 fee (or prepay two or three years) and submit. Prefer paper? Print the form from eCorp and mail it in; the total is still $60.
5. Save the confirmation for your records.

The Secretary of State's own walkthrough is here: how to file an Annual Registration.

Filing Late: The $25 Penalty and Dissolution Clock

Miss April 1 and Georgia adds a $25 late penalty on top of the $60. The bigger risk is letting it slide: an LLC that stays delinquent for two consecutive years faces administrative dissolution by the Secretary of State, and a foreign LLC in the same position has its Certificate of Authority revoked. A dissolved LLC loses its good standing and its liability shield until it is reinstated, which means paying everything owed plus reinstatement filings.

Updating Your Registered Agent on This Filing

Georgia has no standalone change-of-agent form. The Annual Registration is the mechanism: list the new agent when you file during the January-to-April window, and the $60 covers it. Need the change recorded outside the window, or need to correct a registration you already filed? File the Amended Annual Registration for LLC, Form CD 920, for $30. The template lives on the SOS site: Form CD 920 (PDF).

Registered Agent Maintenance, All Year

Beyond the yearly filing, your LLC must continuously maintain a registered agent at a physical Georgia street address (a PO box will not do). If the state has no valid agent on file, the LLC is out of compliance and headed toward dissolution proceedings. Our registered agent service keeps a valid agent on your record year-round and sends deadline reminders ahead of every April 1.

Federal Obligations Do Not Pause for the State

Separate from anything Georgia requires:

• Single-member LLCs report federally on Schedule C; multi-member LLCs file Form 1065
• Members generally owe self-employment tax on their share of profits
• Expect quarterly estimated payments if you will owe $1,000 or more for the year
• Employees mean payroll tax deposits and filings

Keep It Boring

Compliance in Georgia is genuinely simple: one $60 filing in the first quarter, one agent on file at all times. We track the deadlines for our clients so the April 1 date never sneaks up.

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