Mississippi LLC Annual Report: Free, Due April 15 (2026)
Mississippi's annual report is genuinely free for domestic LLCs — $0, every year, forever, as long as you file it. But foreign LLCs pay $250 for the same report, and missing the deadline can lead straight to dissolution. Here's the full playbook and a calculator for your exact status.
Every Mississippi LLC files an annual report with the Secretary of State, online only, with a filing window that opens January 1 and a deadline of April 15 each year. For domestic LLCs the fee is $0; foreign LLCs registered to do business in Mississippi pay $250 for the same filing. There's no separate initial report — your first annual report is due the calendar year after formation. Miss the deadline and Mississippi can begin administrative dissolution — the Secretary of State has warned about third-party mailers falsely implying a fee is owed.
- Fee (domestic)
- $0 — free
- Fee (foreign LLC)
- $250
- Due date
- April 15 — window opens Jan 1
- Filed with
- Secretary of State (online only)
- First report
- Year after formation
- Missed deadline
- Administrative dissolution
What the Mississippi Annual Report Is
A compliance confirmation, not a financial disclosure — and free for domestic LLCs. The annual report confirms your LLC's current information: registered agent, address, and management. No revenue data. Its defining features:
- $0 for domestic LLCs — one of the only truly free ongoing state filings in the country.
- $250 for foreign LLCs — if your out-of-state LLC is registered to do business in Mississippi, the same report costs 250x more. Selling into Mississippi remotely can trigger this registration requirement without you realizing it.
- Filing window opens January 1, due April 15 — file as soon as the window opens to eliminate any risk of forgetting.
- Online only — Mississippi doesn't accept paper annual reports; the legacy paper forms were retired.
Your Status — Calculated
Mississippi Annual Report Status Calculator
Formation year + entity type + filing status · your status as of July 19, 2026
Based on Mississippi's rule: first report due the calendar year after formation, window opens Jan 1, deadline Apr 15, $0 domestic / $250 foreign. Educational estimate – confirm with the Secretary of State.
How to File in 15 Minutes
Log in at business.sos.ms.gov
The same portal that formed your LLC files your annual report — search your entity by Business ID and select the annual filing.
Confirm your information
Registered agent, address, and management. Update anything that changed during the year.
Submit — no fee for domestic LLCs
Download the confirmation, your proof of good standing, and verify next year's reminder exists.
File January 1, not April 14: the filing window opens the very first day of the year, months before the April 15 deadline. Most domestic LLCs finish in under 15 minutes once they have their Business ID in hand. Since it's free, there's no reason to wait — file it the first week of January and remove the deadline from your calendar entirely.
If You Miss April 15
Out of good standing
Your LLC's status changes with the Secretary of State. Financing or deals can stall while you're not in good standing. File the overdue report to cure.
Administrative dissolution risk
Continued failure to file can lead to administrative dissolution — your liability shield's legal foundation, gone.
Reinstatement
File the overdue report and any reinstatement paperwork the Secretary of State requires to restore good standing — always more friction than filing on time would have been.
Never-Miss Tips
- File on January 1 — the window opens then, and there's no benefit to waiting.
- Set a recurring calendar reminder for New Year's Day with a hard deadline of April 15.
- Keep your registered agent address current so Secretary of State reminders actually reach you.
- Ignore third-party fee mailers — the Secretary of State has formally warned about misleading mailers implying a fee is owed for this free filing.
Ahmad Adil's Take: a $0 filing should never cost anyone their LLC, but "free" is exactly why it happens — there's no bill to jog your memory the way a paid filing has. My fix for every Mississippi client is simple: file on January 1, the day the window opens, before you have any other business tasks competing for attention. It takes fifteen minutes, costs nothing, and once it's done you can forget about April 15 completely instead of hoping you remember it three months later. The other habit worth building: if you ever get a mailer that looks official and asks for payment tied to your "annual report," throw it away — the Secretary of State has said outright that legitimate domestic filings are free.
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- ✓Confirm registered-agent eligibility, coverage, included periods and renewal charges.
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