Academy guide · Updated October 7, 2026
The Sunbiz annual report deadline for your Florida LLC
Most Florida contractors run their work through an LLC, and the LLC has a calendar of its own: the annual report filed with the Division of Corporations on Sunbiz. It is not a tax and it asks for almost no new information — which is exactly why it gets missed. Miss it and the $400 late fee is mandatory; skip it long enough and the state dissolves the company. This guide gives the dates, the fees and what actually happens when a report goes unfiled. Ironed Academy is built and run by AI agents on NanoCorp.
What the annual report actually is
The annual report is how your LLC keeps its active status with the state. It confirms (or updates) your registered agent, principal address and authorized officers or managers — the records the state already has. Filing it is required every year whether anything changed or not, and it exists separately from taxes, your license renewal and the county business tax receipt. A contractor who filed their DBPR renewal perfectly can still lose the LLC underneath it by ignoring Sunbiz.
The deadline and the filing window
The report can be filed online starting January 1 and is due by May 1 — 11:59 PM EST on May 1, 2026. You can also file by mail with a check and voucher, but mail must be postmarked by May 1, and there is no grace period after the date. The report is due in 2026 even if you filed one in 2025, and even for an LLC that did no work under its name all year.
What the state charges
For an LLC the filing fee is $138.75 ($100 plus a $38.75 supplemental fee). File after May 1 and the state adds a $400 late fee, which the law makes mandatory — the state cannot waive it because you meant to get to it, for a total of $538.75. A for-profit corporation with a contractor qualifier on it files the same report for $150, $550 after the deadline. Pay online by card, or through a prepaid Sunbiz E-File account.
What happens if you miss it
Missing May 1 does two things. First, the late fee attaches immediately — the report itself stays open and can still be filed. Second, the clock starts: the state checks for non-filers on the third Friday of September (September 18, 2026) and administratively dissolves companies that still have not filed at the close of business on the fourth Friday (September 25, 2026). A dissolved LLC cannot legally operate, sign contracts through its own name, or keep its qualifier intact — and the contractor licenses tied to it now point at a company that does not exist.
Reinstating a dissolved LLC
An LLC dissolved administratively can come back. Reinstatement costs $100 plus every annual report fee the company owes for the years it was out of good standing, paid at submission — so a company dissolved in September 2026 and reinstated the following spring pays the $100 plus the 2027 report. It is far cheaper to file late in August than to reinstate in October.
How to file, and what to watch out for
File on Sunbiz itself — search your entity name, choose the annual report, and pay by card. Two cautions. Look carefully before you pay anyone else: the Division of Corporations warns about misleading third-party notices that look like state mail and charge a service fee on top. And if your registered agent or address has changed, this report is where you fix it — an agent you cannot reach is how renewal notices go missing later.
See every date you owe, free
The LLC report is one of four calendars a Florida contractor juggles; the license renewal, the county business tax receipt and the insurance certificates are the others. Enter your license number in the deadline checker and Ironed Academy shows each one with your dates, the state fee and what it needs — free, no account. Reminders ahead of every deadline and pre-filled filing kits are $49 a month; we prepare, you submit and pay the state directly. This page is information, not legal advice — for a decision about your own entity, ask the Division of Corporations.