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Every Utah LLC has to renew with the state once a year, and the Division of Corporations calls that filing the annual report or the renewal. It is cheap and takes a few minutes online, but if you skip it the state can dissolve your company. Here is the fee, the deadline, and what happens when one gets missed, using the Division's own fee schedule and the Utah Code.
A Utah LLC files an annual report with the Division of Corporations every year by the last day of the month it was formed. The fee is $18, and a late filing adds a $10 late fee. If the report is more than 60 days late, the Division can start administrative dissolution, and getting the LLC back costs $54 plus $18 for each missed year plus a $10 delinquency fee.
The annual report is a short form the Division of Corporations and Commercial Code uses to confirm your LLC is still operating and that its records are current. Utah law lists what it contains: the LLC's name, the street address of its principal office, its registered agent, and the name and address of each principal officer. Most owners just check that the information on screen is still right, fix anything that changed, and pay.
It has nothing to do with taxes. The state sales tax account, withholding and your income tax return all run through the Utah State Tax Commission and the IRS. The annual report only keeps your company on the Division's active list, which is what lets it sign contracts, open accounts and be treated as in good standing.
If your registered agent changed during the year, the annual report counts as the notice of that change. The statute treats a different agent on the report as a statement of change, so you do not need a separate filing for it.
The report is due on the last day of your anniversary month, which is the calendar month your LLC's formation took effect with the Division. An LLC formed on March 12 owes its report by March 31, every year. It does not matter what day in the month you formed. The rule is in Utah Code 16-1a-212, which took effect October 1, 2026 and replaced the old LLC Act section.
You can file early. The statute lets you deliver the report up to 60 days before the last day of the anniversary month, so a March LLC can renew starting in late January. If you are the kind of owner who forgets, file the day the window opens and you will never be late.
To find your own date, search your LLC on the Division's business entity search. It shows the entity number and the expiration date, which is the renewal due date. The Division's renewal form describes that date as the anniversary date of the entity.
| Your LLC was formed in | Annual report due | Earliest you can file |
|---|---|---|
| March | March 31 | Late January |
| July | July 31 | Late May |
| November | November 30 | Late September |
The fee for a domestic or foreign LLC is $18. The Division's fee schedule, effective July 1, 2025, marks that amount with an asterisk because it includes a $5 surcharge for the State of Utah's single sign-on portal. A late filing adds a $10 late renewal fee. Fees are nonrefundable.
Two other numbers cause confusion. The $59 figure is what you paid the Division to form the LLC (the certificate of organization), and it is not charged again. The $70 line on the same schedule is for forming a limited liability partnership or a limited partnership, and $7 is the renewal fee for a limited cooperative association. Neither applies to an LLC.
A filing service charges its own fee on top of the state's $18, so check what it adds before you pay someone to do a form you can file yourself.
| Filing for a Utah LLC | State fee |
|---|---|
| Form the LLC (certificate of organization) | $59 |
| Annual report / renewal | $18 |
| Late renewal fee | $10 |
| Reinstatement of an expired LLC | $54, plus $18 per missed year, plus $10 delinquency fee |
| Change of address or other info (online change) | $17, free if filed with your annual report during the renewal period |
| Expedited processing | $75 per filing |
| Certificate of existence | $12 short form, $20 long form |
Filing happens at businessregistration.utah.gov. Log in with the Utah ID the Division uses for online filing, find your LLC by entity number, and choose the annual report or renewal. Check the principal office address, the registered agent and the names listed, correct anything stale, and pay the $18.
The Division counts a filing as received only after the fee is paid, so a half-finished form with no payment is not a renewal. Its renewal page says processing currently takes 7 to 10 business days, so if the deadline is close, file with room to spare or ask about the $75 expedite. Keep the confirmation page, because the statute says you are not in violation if you can show evidence that you submitted on time.
You can also file on paper with the renewal form and mail it with a check payable to the State of Utah to P.O. Box 146705, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6705. Send one form and one payment per entity if you run several LLCs.
Once the late date on your renewal passes, you pay the $18 plus the $10 late fee. That is the whole penalty for a report filed shortly after the deadline.
The bigger risk starts when the report is more than 60 days overdue. Under Utah Code 16-1a-602, that is one of the grounds on which the Division can start administrative dissolution. It must first serve you a notice listing what is wrong. You then have up to 60 days from the day it serves the notice to cure it, which for a missing report means filing and paying.
If you do nothing, the Division signs a statement of administrative dissolution. The LLC still exists as the same type of entity, but it can only wind up its affairs or apply for reinstatement. Dissolution does not end your registered agent's authority. The Division can also dissolve an LLC that goes 60 consecutive days without a registered agent in Utah, so a lapsed agent causes the same problem as a missed report.
Reinstatement is an application filed with the Division, and the Division encourages domestic LLCs to file it online at businessregistration.utah.gov. The fee is $54, plus $18 for each year the annual report was missed, plus a $10 delinquency fee. An LLC that skipped three years of reports would owe $54 plus $54 plus $10, or $118.
Utah Code 16-1a-604 lets a dissolved entity apply for reinstatement under its same name at any time after the dissolution date, as long as the name is still available. The application has to state that all fees and penalties are paid, that the reason for dissolution is cured, and that you have paid what you owe the Utah State Tax Commission or are current on a payment plan with it. An unpaid state tax balance can hold up the whole filing.
The state holds your name for five years after the dissolution takes effect. That gives you time to reinstate, but another business can register a similar name once the hold ends, so do not let an expired LLC sit.
The annual report goes to the state. If your LLC operates inside Salt Lake City limits, it also carries a city business license that renews every year through the city's Business Licensing portal, with its own fee and its own expiration date. Our Salt Lake City business license guide covers the fees and the inspection step. The two renewals do not move together, so put both dates on your calendar the day you form the company.
The Division of Corporations is at 160 East 300 South in Salt Lake City, open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday except state and federal holidays, with a phone line at (801) 530-4849. For an annual report you will not need to go in. Everything routine is online.
Picture a landscaper in Sugar House who forms an LLC in March, gets a city license, and then forgets the state renewal the next March because nothing reminds them. If you run an LLC in Salt Lake County, our small business resources list and the guide to Salt Lake County business personal property tax cover the other yearly obligations.
Once your LLC is in good standing and licensed, the next job is getting customers to find you. The Salt Lake Valley newsletter goes to more than 2,400 local subscribers, and local businesses can advertise in it.