Pennsylvania Annual Report Filing: Due Date, Fee, and Steps

Pennsylvania has moved from once-a-decade reporting to a true annual requirement. Act 122 of 2022 repealed the former Decennial Report and created an annual report, codified at 15 Pa.C.S. § 146, with the first filings due in 2025. Any guidance that still describes a ten-year reporting cycle is out of date, and businesses formed under the old system need to adjust their compliance calendars accordingly.

Pennsylvania Annual Report Due Date

For LLCs, the filing window opens January 1 and closes September 30 each year. September 30 is the deadline that matters for most of our customers. Other entity types follow different windows under the same statute: corporations, both for-profit and nonprofit, must file by June 30, while limited partnerships and LLPs have until December 31.

Your first annual report is due in the calendar year after your entity first registers with the Pennsylvania Department of State. An LLC formed in 2026, for example, files its first report during the 2027 window.

Pennsylvania Annual Report Fee

The official state fee is $7 for a for-profit LLC. For-profit corporations and limited partnerships pay the same $7, while nonprofit corporations and entities organized for a not-for-profit purpose pay nothing. Corrections are free as well: information filed earlier in the same calendar year can be updated with the Annual Report UPDATE form (DSCB:15-146(f)), submitted online at no charge.

How to File the Pennsylvania Annual Report

Every entity type uses the same form, the Annual Report, DSCB:15-146, filed with the Pennsylvania Department of State, Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations.

1. Verify your records before you start. The report must be accurate as of the date it is delivered for filing, and the Department returns incomplete reports for correction.
2. Log in to Business Filing Services, the Department's online filing system. Online reports pre-populate with your current state records and are processed automatically. Paper filings are accepted but receive no expedited handling.
3. Review the pre-populated information: entity name, jurisdiction of formation, registered office or Commercial Registered Office Provider (CROP), principal office address, and the name of at least one governor, which for an LLC means a member or manager.
4. Confirm that every address is a street or rural route address. The Department refuses documents listing only a PO box under 15 Pa.C.S. § 135(c).
5. Pay the $7 fee and submit. Retain the confirmation for your records, and use the free UPDATE form if anything changes later in the year.

Late Filing and Administrative Dissolution

Pennsylvania imposes no late fee for missing the deadline. The real penalty is structural. An LLC that has not filed becomes delinquent on October 1, and administrative dissolution follows six months after the September 30 deadline, around March 31 of the following year. A dissolved entity also loses the exclusive right to its name.

Enforcement begins with annual reports not filed in 2027, which gives businesses a transition period for the 2025 and 2026 filings. Foreign LLCs face administrative termination of their Pennsylvania registration instead of dissolution, and a terminated registration cannot be reinstated retroactively; the company must re-register and receives a new entity number.

What Act 122 Replaced

The Decennial Report is gone entirely. One related filing survives: the Certificate of Annual Registration still applies to LLPs, LLLPs, and restricted professional companies, which owe it by April 15 each year with a fee assessed per general partner or per licensed member. Standard LLCs and business corporations do not file the Certificate of Annual Registration; their only recurring state report is the $7 annual report described above.

How We Help

Our $99 annual service includes compliance reminders for the September 30 deadline and other important dates. We notify you well before your filing window closes so you have adequate time to review and submit your information.

When correspondence about your annual report or your standing arrives from the Pennsylvania Department of State, we scan it into your secure portal that same day and notify you right away. The report itself is a filing you submit directly to the state; our role is to make sure the deadline never slips past you.

Our service includes:

• Physical in-state address for state filings
• Legal service capture for Pennsylvania
• Compliance reminders for annual report and other deadlines
• Online document portal access
• Privacy protection for your personal information

Maintaining Good Standing

Staying current with the annual report keeps your entity in good standing with the commonwealth. Alongside this filing, keep your registered office information current and report business changes promptly.

Your registered agent address is the state's official channel to your business. When the Pennsylvania Department of State needs to reach you, that is where the notice goes, so dependable coverage there protects everything else.

Initiate Service

We provide professional, comprehensive registered agent service for Pennsylvania businesses at $99 per year. We handle document receipt, same-day scanning, and compliance alerts so you can focus on operating your business. See our FAQ for how mail handling works beyond service of process.

Ready to enroll? Visit our checkout page and provide your business information. We will coordinate with the Pennsylvania Department of State and establish your portal credentials within one business day.

Questions about Pennsylvania compliance requirements? Contact us at support@paregisteredagent.org.