New Jersey LLC Annual Report: $75, Due in Your Anniversary Month
Every New Jersey LLC files an annual report with DORES, online, for $75, due on the last day of the month in which the business was formed. There is no flat late fee. Instead, two consecutive missed years move a domestic LLC to the inactive list, and getting back costs $75 per missed report plus a $75 reinstatement fee.
The report, in one table
| Item | New Jersey rule |
|---|---|
| What it is | An annual report under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-26 confirming or updating the registered agent and address and the LLC's information |
| Where | Online only, through the DORES Annual Reports service at njportal.com. Expediting is not available for annual reports. |
| When | Every year, on the last day of the month in which your business formation was completed. For a foreign LLC, the month it was authorized in New Jersey. The first report falls in the anniversary month of the year after formation. |
| Fee | $75. The portal's payment processing charges (credit card $3.00, e-check $0.50) are charged by the state's payment partner and are not part of the $75 state fee. |
| Late fee | No flat dollar late fee is published in the DORES Registry Fee Schedule. |
| Reminders | A reminder is sent to the registered agent 60 days before the due date, but the responsibility to file falls on the business even if you fail to receive any notification from the state |
The anniversary-month design is the thing to internalize. New Jersey does not use a single statewide deadline or a window tied to the calendar year. Your deadline is personal to your LLC: form in June and every June 30 is your report date, starting the June after formation. The report itself is short, confirming the agent, the office, and the entity information, but it is required every year whether or not anything changed.
What happens if you skip it
Business.NJ.gov warns plainly that failure to file can result in the revocation of your business. The statute behind the warning works on a two-year clock: under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-26(b), if no annual report is filed for two consecutive years, a domestic LLC's certificate is transferred to an inactive list maintained by the filing office, and a foreign LLC's certificate may be revoked. One missed year is a debt. Two missed years is a status problem, and an inactive or revoked LLC cannot cleanly sign contracts, maintain accounts, or close through the online endings service, which requires good legal standing.
Reinstatement math
Reinstatement is by proclamation of the filing office on payment of all fees due: the reinstatement filing fee, the current annual report fee, and all delinquent annual report fees. On the DORES schedule for an LLC, that is $75 for the reinstatement filing, plus $75 for the current annual report, plus $75 for each delinquent annual report. Add $25 if you change the registered agent or office with the reinstatement. Where tax clearance is required, which the Division's reinstatement guidance applies to entities revoked or inactive for extended periods of two years or more, the tax clearance application fee is $20. A worked example: two missed years plus the current report costs $75 for reinstatement, plus $150 for the two delinquent reports, plus $75 for the current report, $300 in state fees before any agent change or tax clearance. Reinstatement runs through the same online Annual Reports service.
The tax-side companion most guides skip
The annual report is a DORES filing. It is separate from the Division of Taxation's partnership filing fee on Form NJ-1065, which a partnership-classified LLC pays only if it has more than two owners and New Jersey source income or loss: $150 per owner, capped at $250,000, plus a 50% installment toward the next year, due by the 15th day of the fourth month after the tax year closes. One and two-owner LLCs owe nothing under that fee. The full breakdown is on the New Jersey cost page.
Closing a New Jersey LLC on purpose
Closing runs through the DORES Online Business Endings and Cancellation service, choosing Dissolve/Terminate under N.J.S.A. 42:2C, and the underlying registry filing is a Certificate of Cancellation. The Registry Fee Schedule lists $100 for a domestic LLC and $125 for a foreign LLC. One honesty note: the Annual Reports portal FAQ separately lists the LLC ending charge as $125, so re-verify the online ending total on the portal at filing time before relying on either figure for an online cancellation. Two clean facts are not in dispute: your business must be in good legal standing to use the online endings service, with outstanding annual reports dealt with as part of ending, and no tax clearance certificate is required for an LLC. Final tax returns remain a Division of Taxation matter. Our dissolution guide covers the winding-down order.
Sources, checked Nov 8, 2026
New Jersey Department of the Treasury, Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services (DORES): Registry Fee Schedules (Certificate of Formation $100, annual report $75, reinstatement $75), Getting Registered ($100 fee, formation sequence, NJ-REG), Registration Packet revised 2026 (NJ-REG within 60 days, registered agent and office rules), Alternate Names, Business Endings, and Reinstatement Fees pages, all at nj.gov. Business.NJ.gov, the state's official business portal: Taxes and Annual Report page (anniversary month due date, revocation warning) at business.nj.gov. New Jersey Division of Taxation: 2025 NJ-1065 Partnership Return Instructions (partnership filing fee, $150 per owner, more than two owners, 50% installment) at nj.gov.
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