Florida LLC fees (2026)

Every mandatory and optional fee Florida charges an LLC, verified against the official fee schedule — not a blog's memory of it. Statutes and source links are at the bottom of each section.

$138.75 annual report is required to keep the LLC active and is due between January 1 and May 1. Filed after May 1 it jumps to $538.75 (a flat $400 late penalty, non-negotiable and non-prorated). Florida has no state income tax, so there is no franchise/privilege tax on LLCs.

The full fee schedule

The filings and certificates an LLC actually ends up paying for, at the official rate.

Online vs. mail vs. counter

• Online (Sunbiz e-file): No surcharge. Florida charges the identical statutory fee online and by mail — the Division of Corporations' LLC fee schedule publishes a single price column and lists no portal convenience fee, processing surcharge, or expedite tier of any kind. Accepted online: credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover), debit card carrying a Visa or MasterCard logo, or a prepaid Sunbiz E-File Account. (source)
• Mail / courier: Same dollar fees, but payment must be by check or money order: "Make checks payable to the Florida Department of State. Must be payable in U.S. currency drawn from a U.S. bank." The Division lists credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover), debit card, and the prepaid Sunbiz E-File Account only under its online payment options — check or money order is the sole method offered for mail or courier filings. (source)
• Receipt-date rule (the real mail penalty): The cost is in the calendar, not the price. Florida sets your filing's receipt date by how you paid: "If you filed online, the receipt date is the date your credit card payment was processed. If you filed and paid by check, the receipt date is the date of deposit of your check." A mailed filing therefore loses both postal transit time and the Division's deposit lag before the clock even starts. (source)
• Queue snapshot (2026-08-12 update): As published on the Document Processing Dates page updated 08/12/26: New Florida Business Entity Filings — By Mail were being processed from receipt date 08/05/26 versus 08/07/26 for filings Submitted Online, i.e. the online queue was running about two days ahead before any mail transit is counted. Annual Reports and Reinstatements Paid Online stood at 08/11/26 while Check Payment Vouchers stood at 08/12/26, and Certification Requests (certified copies, certificates of status) at 08/04/26. These dates move daily. (source)
• Expedited service: There is none to buy. The official LLC fee schedule contains no expedited, rush, or same-day tier, and the Division of Corporations publishes no expedite pricing — unlike Delaware or California, a Florida filer cannot pay to jump the queue. Speed is bought only by filing and paying online rather than by check. (source)
• Annual report paid by mail — postmark rule: For the annual report specifically the deadline is a postmark rule, not a deposit rule: "Your payment voucher and check or money order must be postmarked and mailed on or before May 1 to avoid a late fee." Depositing late does not trigger the $400 if the envelope was postmarked by May 1. (source)

Miss the deadline: what it actually costs

Florida's annual-report late charge is a flat $400 and it is not an LLC fee at all — it lives in the corporate chapter. Fla. Stat. § 607.193(2)(b) provides that "in addition to the fees levied under ss. 605.0213, 607.0122, and 620.1109 and the supplemental corporate fee, a late charge of $400 shall be imposed if the supplemental corporate fee is remitted after May 1 ..." Because every Florida LLC owes the $88.75 supplemental corporate fee under § 607.193(1), an LLC that files its annual report after May 1 pays $138.75 + $400 = $538.75. The charge is flat and non-prorated: identical one day late and four months late, identical for a dormant single-member LLC and a large operating company, and there is no grace period, no hardship waiver, and no first-time-filer relief. Sunbiz confirms the reach: "A $400 late fee will be imposed on all profit corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships and limited liability limited partnerships. Non-profit corporations are not subject to the $400 late fee." The escalation past the late fee is administrative dissolution. Under Fla. Stat. § 605.0714 the department may dissolve an LLC that has not delivered its annual report by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the third Friday in September, and Sunbiz states the entity "will be administratively dissolved or revoked in our records at the close of business on the fourth Friday of September." Meanwhile Fla. Stat. § 605.0212(6) bars a non-filing LLC from maintaining or defending any action in a Florida court until the report is filed and all fees and penalties are paid. One counterintuitive consequence worth knowing: § 607.193(2)(b) carves out "circumstances in which a business entity was administratively dissolved or its certificate of authority was revoked due to its failure to file an annual report and the entity subsequently applied for reinstatement and paid the applicable reinstatement fee" — so the $400 does not attach to a reinstatement, and Sunbiz's reinstatement pricing is $100 plus $138.75 per report year with no $400 line.

Recent fee changes

• 2024-07-01 — Ch. 2024-265, Laws of Florida (CS/CS/SB 1198, "corporate actions"), approved by the Governor June 25, 2024 and effective July 1, 2024, amended Fla. Stat. § 605.0213(8) and (9) — the first amendment to Florida's LLC fee statute since it was enacted. No dollar amount changed: registered-agent resignation stayed $85 for an LLC that has not been dissolved and $25 for a dissolved LLC. What changed is scope. Section 9 of the act added Fla. Stat. § 605.0115(6), letting a registered agent resigning from more than one LLC that has each been dissolved — voluntarily, administratively, or by court action — for a continuous period of 10 years or longer file a single composite statement of resignation and pay one $25 fee instead of $25 per company. The act's own title describes the effect as "providing that registered agents may pay one resignation fee regardless of whether resigning from one or multiple inactive or dissolved companies or corporations." Section 19 reenacted § 607.193(2)(b) — the $400 late charge — unchanged, to incorporate the cross-reference edits. (source)
• 2014-01-01 — Ch. 2013-180, Laws of Florida (CS/CS/SB 1300, the Florida Revised Limited Liability Company Act), approved by the Governor June 14, 2013 and effective January 1, 2014, created Fla. Stat. § 605.0213 with the amounts still in force today: $30 certified copy, $100 articles of organization, $100 foreign certificate of authority, $25 per party certificate of merger, $50 annual report, $100 reinstatement, $25 registered-agent designation or change, $85/$25 registered-agent resignation, $25 certificate of conversion, $25 any other document, $5 certificate of status. Florida's LLC filing fees have not risen in over a decade — the 2023 and 2025 editions of § 605.0213 carry identical figures, and the statute's History note records only two touches in its life: "s. 2, ch. 2013-180; s. 12, ch. 2024-265." (source)

What trips people up

• The advertised "$100 to file" is never what you pay. Fla. Stat. § 605.0213(7) charges a separate mandatory $25 for the certificate designating a registered agent, and Sunbiz bundles it into every new filing — the fee schedule's own line reads "Total Fee For New Florida/Foreign LLC — $125.00." Both domestic and foreign LLCs pay the same $125 floor. (source)
• The $400 late fee and $88.75 of the $138.75 annual bill are corporate-chapter charges, not LLC fees. Fla. Stat. § 605.0213(5) prices the annual report at just $50; the other $88.75 is the supplemental corporate fee that § 607.193(1) imposes on every entity required to file under s. 605.0212, and § 607.193(2)(b) attaches the $400 late charge to that supplemental fee rather than to the report — which is why the penalty is flat, why LPs and LLLPs pay the identical $400, and why non-profit corporations are the only exempt filers. (source)
• No franchise tax, no personal income tax — but corporate tax classification is a live trap. Florida imposes no LLC franchise or privilege tax, yet the Department of Revenue states that "a limited liability company (LLC) classified as a corporation for Florida and federal income tax purposes is subject to the Florida Income Tax Code and must file a Florida corporate income/franchise tax return," at 5.5% on Florida net income after a $50,000 exemption. An LLC taxed as a partnership must file Form F-1065 if any owner is a corporation, while a single-member LLC disregarded for federal and Florida purposes files no separate Florida corporate return. So an S-corp or C-corp election flips a $138.75-a-year Florida LLC into an annual state tax filer. (source)

Sources

• Official Florida fee schedule
• {'cite': 'Fla. Stat. § 605.0213', 'title': 'Fees of the department', 'url': 'https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/605.0213', 'note': 'The controlling LLC fee statute. Sets every base amount: certified copy $30 (1); articles of organization or revocation of dissolution $100 (2); foreign certificate of authority $100 (3); certificate of merger $25 per constituent party (4); annual report $50 (5); reinstatement $100 (6); registered agent designation or change $25 (7); RA resignation from an undissolved LLC $85 (8); RA resignation from a dissolved LLC $25 (9); certificate of conversion $25 (10); any other LLC document $25 (11); certificate of status $5 (12).'}
• {'cite': 'Fla. Stat. § 605.0212', 'title': 'Annual report for Department of State', 'url': 'https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/605.0212', 'note': 'Subsection (3) fixes the filing window: the first annual report is due between January 1 and May 1 of the year following the calendar year the articles of organization became effective, and subsequent reports between January 1 and May 1 each year thereafter. Subsection (6) bars a non-filing LLC from maintaining or defending any action in a Florida court until the report is filed and all fees and penalties are paid.'}
• {'cite': 'Fla. Stat. § 607.193', 'title': 'Supplemental corporate fee', 'url': 'https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/607.193', 'note': 'The statute non-obviously responsible for most of what a Florida LLC actually pays each year. Subsection (1) imposes an annual supplemental corporate fee of $88.75 on each business entity required to file an annual report under s. 605.0212 (LLCs), s. 607.1622, or s. 620.1210 — that $88.75 stacked on the $50 statutory annual report fee is what produces the $138.75 Sunbiz charges. Subsection (2)(b) is the source of the $400 late charge.'}
• {'cite': 'Fla. Stat. § 605.0714', 'title': 'Grounds for administrative dissolution', 'url': 'https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/605.0714', 'note': "The department may dissolve an LLC that fails to deliver its annual report by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the third Friday in September, fails to pay amounts due, fails to appoint and maintain a registered agent under s. 605.0113, or fails to file a statement of change within 30 days after the agent's name or address changes."}
• {'cite': 'Fla. Stat. § 605.0115(6)', 'title': 'Resignation of registered agent — composite statement', 'url': 'https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/605.0115', 'note': 'Added by ch. 2024-265. A registered agent resigning from two or more LLCs that have each been dissolved (voluntarily, administratively, or by court action) for a continuous period of 10 years or longer may file one composite statement of resignation, which s. 605.0213(9) charges at a single $25 rather than $25 per company.'}

Figures verified against official Florida sources. Fees change — the official schedule linked above controls. This page is general information, not legal or tax advice; FilingDesk is not a law firm.