Louisiana Foreign Registration / Annual report
The Louisiana annual report for a foreign LLC
An authorized foreign LLC files a yearly report by the anniversary of the date it qualified, and the fee is $35. A member or manager signs it. A missed report is a ground for revocation and puts the LLC out of good standing with the state.
The report in brief
- Fee
- $35
- Due
- On or before the anniversary of your qualification
- Signed by
- a member or manager
- Statute
- La. R.S. 12:1350.1
- Content
- Addresses and the registered agent
- Missed
- Ground for revocation or suspension
When it is due
The statute fixes the date as the anniversary of the LLC's qualification, not a calendar date for everyone. An LLC authorized on a given day owes its report on or before that day each year. Write the date on the grant of authority in a calendar the day you receive it.
What the report contains
The report restates the registered office and principal business office outside the state, the principal business establishment in Louisiana, the registered office in Louisiana and the registered agent. In practice you copy last year's answers and change only what has moved.
Who signs
The report is signed by a member or manager, and the registered agent signs only the separate acceptance block on the application. The statute names a member or manager as the signer, not the agent.
What it costs
The fee is $35 every year, whether the LLC is large or small. Over three years the reports come to $105. The real cost of lateness is the revocation process described below, and the wait for a cure if the state has already sent notice.
What a missed report does
A delinquent annual report is one of the nine grounds on which the Secretary of State can revoke a foreign LLC's authority. The state first sends at least 60 days of written notice, and the LLC can cure by filing. A suspension for a missed report that has lasted six months or more is lifted only by filing the report together with a fresh home-state certificate. Meanwhile the LLC is not in good standing and may not do commercial business with the state.
How the report fits with other filings
A change of agent or registered office is reported on a statement of change at $30, and a new agent signs an acceptance. The annual report then repeats whatever is current. The two are not interchangeable: a report does not change the state's record of the agent.
If you are withdrawing
Reports stay due until the certificate of withdrawal is issued. If your anniversary falls before the withdrawal clears, file the report and pay $35, or the revocation clock starts on a registration you are ending anyway. See the Form 338 page.
Common slips
- Assuming a January or April deadline from another state.
- Letting the agent change without reporting it.
- Waiting for a reminder that does not arrive.
- Signing as the agent instead of as a member or manager.
Using the report to catch changes
Because the report restates the registered office, the agent and the Louisiana business address, it is a yearly prompt to ask whether any of them has moved. If one has, file Form 346 at $30 before the report, so the state's record and the report agree.
Corporations keep a different timetable
The foreign corporation rule is separate. Its first report is due on the anniversary of qualifying in the year after the calendar year the certificate was issued, and later ones on each anniversary. A corporation's report lists its directors and officers, which an LLC's does not. The fee is the same $35.
Setting up the first reminder
Build your own reminder. Put the anniversary date on a shared calendar with a notice thirty days ahead, name who files it, and save the signed copy with the grant of authority. If the member or manager who normally signs leaves the company, change the owner of that reminder the same week.
Annual report questions
What does a Louisiana foreign LLC annual report cost?
$35.
Is the first report due in the year I register?
It is due on the first anniversary of qualification.
Who can sign the report?
A member or a manager.
Our fee and Louisiana's
Begin my Louisiana application
$199
+ $185 Louisiana fee
- Form 972 completed in duplicate for the member or manager to sign
- A review of your home-state certificate against the 90-day limit
- A Louisiana registered agent and office that meet the statute, ours or yours, with the agent's notarized acceptance
- The package filed in Baton Rouge, then your grant of authority sent back
- Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year
Louisiana's $185 is shown as its own line at checkout. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Sources
- Louisiana Secretary of State, forms and fee schedule
- Louisiana Secretary of State fee schedule effective 10/1/26
- La. R.S. 12:1345, application for certificate of authority
- Louisiana Form 972, application of a foreign limited liability company
- La. R.S. 12:1350.1, annual report
- La. R.S. 12:1353, revocation or suspension of certificate of authority
- La. R.S. 12:313, revocation of a foreign corporation certificate
- Louisiana Form 346, statement of change for a foreign corporation or limited liability company
- La. R.S. 12:309, annual report of a foreign corporation
Louisiana paperwork, assembled for you
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