Arizona Foreign Registration / Annual report
Does a foreign LLC in Arizona file an annual report?
No. The Arizona Corporation Commission says LLCs are not required to file annual reports, and only corporations are, at $45 for a for-profit corporation and $10 for a nonprofit. A registered foreign LLC still has housekeeping: amendments when facts change, a statutory agent on file, and answers to the Commission's interrogatories.
Annual filings in brief
- Foreign LLC
- No annual report
- Foreign for-profit corporation
- $45, or $80 expedited
- Foreign nonprofit corporation
- $10
- Corporation due date
- an assigned date shown on the corporation's Commission record
- Extension
- 6 months on request; the fee is still due
- Early filing
- Up to 90 days before the due date
Why LLCs are left out
Arizona's LLC statute never asked for periodic reports, and the Commission's guidance is blunt: LLCs do not file them (). It also means there is no due date for an Arizona LLC to miss, and no late fee. The registration continues until the company withdraws or the Commission terminates it.
What an LLC does have to keep up
The registration stays healthy through four ongoing duties.
- Amendments. If any fact in the registration statement changes, the LLC files an amendment (). A change of agent, principal address or a manager or member address is handled by a statement of change instead, if one has been filed. The amendment form is Form L017 at $25.
- Copies of changes to organizing documents. An amendment or restatement of the articles at home goes to the Commission within 60 days of its effective date.
- A statutory agent at a valid address. The agent can be changed on Form L020 for $5.
- Interrogatory answers. If the Commission asks questions under its statute, the LLC has to answer.
What a lapse costs
There is no annual penalty, but each duty has a hook. The Commission can begin terminating a registration if the LLC does not pay a fee or penalty within 60 days after it is due, lacks a statutory agent, spends 60 consecutive days without a principal address, does not report an agent or address change within 60 days, does not amend as required, or does not answer interrogatories (A.R.S. 29-3910(B)). Any of these begins with a notice sent to the agent. See the penalties page for the steps.
Corporations: the annual report in detail
A foreign corporation files an annual report every year. Its due date is the one on its Commission record, and the ABC system sends reminder emails to account holders. It can file as early as 90 days ahead. A for-profit report costs $45 ($80 expedited) and a nonprofit's $10. An extension request can add 6 months to file, though it does not defer the fee and does not move later due dates ().
Delinquency runs on a schedule: a delinquency notice and Pending Inactive status, a final notice about sixty days later, and administrative dissolution roughly sixty days after that (). Penalty fees accrue on a late report, and a dissolved corporation needs reinstatement, the report, the fee and penalties. A foreign corporation that wants to withdraw must have filed every past-due report first ().
Annual vendors and false urgency
Because Arizona has no LLC report, any solicitation that says your LLC must file an annual report with the Commission is wrong for an LLC. The only recurring item for most LLCs is whatever the statutory agent charges. If you receive a notice from the Commission itself, read the ground it states and answer it before the effective date.
Keeping an Arizona LLC registration clean
Keep the agent current
Confirm yearly that the agent still serves and the address is right.
Amend when facts change
Form L017, $25.
Send copies of home amendments
Within 60 days.
Answer notices
Treat any Commission notice as having a deadline.
Annual filing questions
Does a foreign LLC owe the Commission anything every year?
Not to the Commission. The LLC only pays for changes it files and for its statutory agent.
Do corporations file in Arizona?
Yes. A for-profit pays $45 and a nonprofit $10.
Can a corporation get an extension?
Yes, for 6 months on request, but the fee is still due.
What if an LLC forgets everything for years?
Nothing happens automatically, but the Commission may terminate a registration on the listed grounds after notice.
Does my home state still require its own report?
Yes. Arizona has no say over your home state's annual report or tax.
Our price and the Commission fee
Arizona registration order
- Form L025 for an LLC or Form C018 for a corporation, completed and signed
- The home-state certificate and certified organizational documents, ordered for you
- The statutory agent acceptance and the structure attachment
- An Arizona statutory agent, from us or already yours
- Filing with the Commission at the speed tier you choose
- Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year
$199
+ $150 Commission fee
Start my Arizona registrationCheckout shows our price, the Commission fee and any speed tier as separate lines. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Where these facts come from
- Arizona Corporation Commission LLC fee schedule
- Arizona Form L025 instructions (Foreign Registration Statement)
- Arizona Corporation Commission, LLC forms
- Arizona Form C018 instructions (Application for Authority)
- Arizona Corporation Commission, corporation forms
- Arizona Corporation Commission corporation fee schedule
- Arizona Corporation Commission, business services FAQs
- A.R.S. 29-3903, foreign registration statement
- A.R.S. 29-3904, amendment of foreign registration statement
- Arizona Form L017 instructions (Articles of Amendment to Foreign Registration Statement)
- Arizona Form L020 instructions (LLC Statement of Change of Principal Address or Statutory Agent)
- A.R.S. 29-3910, termination of registration
- Arizona Form C025 instructions (Application for Withdrawal, foreign corporation)
Opening an Arizona branch of an out-of-state company?
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