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Missouri LLC: No Annual Report, but a Registered Agent You Must Keep

Missouri LLCs file no annual report and no biennial report, ever, and pay no recurring Secretary of State fee. What Missouri requires instead is a registered agent maintained continuously, and a duration that has not expired. Neglect either one and the Secretary of State can move to cancel your articles.

By the LLCForming research teamFees checked Nov 8, 2026

There is no Missouri LLC annual report

Say it plainly, because search results will try to sell you one: Missouri does not require an annual report, a biennial report, or any periodic report at all from a limited liability company. The proof is in the state's own lists. The Secretary of State's annual report material is addressed to corporations on its face: all corporations doing business in this state must file an annual registration report, citing RSMo 351.090, the corporation statute. The Secretary of State's Small Business Startup Guide makes the same split, giving the LLC a maintenance example that is event driven, an agent change, and then stating the periodic duty for corporations only: all corporations are required to file an annual corporate registration report and pay an annual fee. The official fee schedule tells the same story. Its Chapter 347 section lists only event driven LLC filings, certificates, amendments, merger, winding up, and termination, and no report form or report fee of any kind for LLCs, while its Chapter 351 section lists the corporation annual registration report. Chapter 347 itself contains no annual report section for LLCs. There is no fee to budget, no window to miss, and no late penalty for a report that does not exist. Anyone charging you to file a Missouri LLC annual report is charging you for a fiction.

What Missouri requires instead: a registered agent, continuously

Agent item	Missouri rule
The duty	Have and continuously maintain a registered office and a registered agent in Missouri, under RSMo 347.030.
Who may serve	An individual resident of this state whose business office is identical with the registered office, or a domestic or foreign corporation authorized to do business in this state whose business office is identical with the registered office.
Address rules	The articles give the registered office address including street and number, if any. The agent and address must be in the State of Missouri.
Changes	File a Statement of Change of Registered Agent and/or Registered Office, Form Corp. 59, for $10. The LLC must change its agent if the office becomes vacant, the agent becomes disqualified or incapacitated, or the appointment is revoked.
Resignation	The agent resigns on Form LLC-6 for $10, effective 30 days after the Secretary of State receives the statement, or on appointment of a new agent, whichever is earlier.

This is a live duty, not a formation formality. Agents move, resign, and become incapacitated; businesses move and forget the record. The record on file is the one the state and anyone serving process will use, and Missouri attaches a cancellation power to it, described next.

Cancellation: the agent ground, the fee power, and the expired duration path

Under RSMo 347.183, the Secretary of State has the power to cancel or disapprove the articles of organization or another filing if the LLC fails to comply with Chapter 347, including by failing to file required documents, by failing to maintain a registered agent, by failing to pay required filing fees, by using fraud or deception in a filing, or by filing a required document containing a false statement. Thirty days before a cancellation takes effect, the Secretary of State must notify the LLC in writing, personally or by certified mail addressed to its last registered agent in office, which is one more reason the agent record has to be right. The same section gives the Secretary of State the power to charge late filing fees of $10 for each 30 day period of delinquency, and to rescind a cancellation on compliance. A separate path needs no misconduct at all. If the duration stated in your articles expires, the Secretary of State may administratively cancel the articles on not less than 30 days written notice under RSMo 347.183(5). A cancelled LLC continues in existence but may carry on only the business necessary to wind up and liquidate and to notify claimants, and cancellation does not terminate the registered agent's authority. Most LLCs avoid this path entirely by stating a perpetual duration, which RSMo 347.039 expressly permits.

Reinstatement: the $100 figure covers one path only

Read reinstatement advice for Missouri with care, because the verified statute is narrow. Under RSMo 347.183(6), an LLC whose articles were administratively cancelled because its stated duration expired may first amend its articles under RSMo 347.041 to extend its duration, then apply for reinstatement reciting its name and the effective date of cancellation, stating the grounds did not exist or have been eliminated, with documentation, and stating its name satisfies RSMo 347.020, accompanied by a reinstatement fee of $100, or such greater amount as required by state regulation, plus any delinquent fees, penalties, and other charges then due. If the name was reissued to another entity in the meantime, the LLC may reinstate under a new compliant name. That is the whole verified $100 rule. For an LLC cancelled under RSMo 347.183(2), for example for failing to maintain a registered agent, the Secretary of State's reinstatement materials list an Application for Reinstatement, Form CORP 50AD, but the LLC specific fee and any tax clearance requirement for that posture were not confirmed on the official pages reviewed for this guide. The $55 basic reinstatement fee and tax clearance instructions on Secretary of State pages are stated for domestic corporations, and this page does not apply them to LLCs. Do not budget another cancellation on the $100 figure, and do not let a guide do it for you.

The filings that are not LLC reports

• Fictitious names: if you registered one on Form Corp. 56 for $7, it expires 5 years from the filing date and renews for the same $7 in the six month period before expiration. That is a name registration under Chapter 417, not an LLC report, and LLCs without a fictitious name owe nothing.
• Tax returns: an LLC taxed as a partnership files Federal Form 1065 and a Missouri Partnership Return, Form MO-1065, and members report K-1 income on their own returns. Those are tax filings with the Department of Revenue and the IRS, not Secretary of State reports, and they exist in every structure.
• A narrow rental property affidavit: under RSMo 347.048, as amended effective August 28, 2026, an LLC that owns and rents or leases real property, or owns unoccupied real property, in certain large home rule cities, or in a county over one million inhabitants on the conditions stated, must file an affidavit with the city or county clerk naming a natural person with management control, with a successor affidavit within 30 days if that person ceases. No fee may be charged for the affidavit. It does not apply to LLCs generally and carries no Secretary of State charge.

Closing a Missouri LLC on purpose

Ending the LLC deliberately is a two step filing, not a lapse. As soon as possible after a dissolution event, file a Notice of Winding Up, Form LLC-13, for $25, under RSMo 347.137. Then file Articles of Termination, Form LLC-5, for $25. The order matters: the Secretary of State states that a notice of winding up is required to be of record prior to an article of termination being accepted. The contents of the termination filing are set by RSMo 347.045: the name, the date the articles were filed, the reason for filing, the filing date and any specified effective date no more than 90 days out, a statement that a notice of winding up was filed and its date, and any other matters the members determine. No tax item of any kind appears in that statutory list. On tax clearance, be precise about what is and is not verified. Form LLC-5 on its face states only the $25 fee. The Secretary of State's corporation termination forms, by contrast, expressly require a Certificate of Tax Clearance from the Department of Revenue on their face, and the Department of Revenue's tax clearance FAQ frames the requirement in corporation terms. No LLC specific primary source reviewed for this guide states that the Secretary of State requires a tax clearance to accept Form LLC-5, and none states the opposite, so this page asserts neither. Closing your Department of Revenue tax accounts and filing final returns remain necessary as a tax matter regardless. Budget $50 in Secretary of State fees to close. Our dissolution guide covers winding down before you file.