The full Florida LLC cost table
| Cost | Amount | Required? |
|---|---|---|
| Florida state filing fee | $125 one-time | Yes |
| Recurring state cost | $138.75/yr — Annual Report | Yes |
| Registered agent | $0 as your own agent, or ~$125/yr for a service | Yes (one or the other) |
| EIN (federal tax ID) | $0 direct from the IRS | Usually |
| First-year total | $263.75 as your own agent · $388.75 with a service | — |
| Five-year total | $818.75 as your own agent · $1,443.75 with a service | — |
Late filing adds a $400 penalty.
The May 1 deadline is the whole game in Florida
Every Florida LLC files an annual report with Sunbiz between January 1 and May 1 — $138.75 on time. On May 2 the price becomes $538.75: a flat $400 late fee, applied automatically, with no discretion and no appeal. Keep not filing and the state dissolves the LLC in September. That $400 penalty is nearly three times the fee itself, which makes Florida's real cost structure less about the numbers and more about calendar discipline. The report itself is a five-minute confirmation of your details — there is no financial disclosure — so the penalty exists purely to punish forgetting.
What Florida doesn't charge
The pleasant half of the ledger: no state income tax on individuals, no franchise tax on LLCs. A Florida LLC's pass-through profits reach a Florida-resident owner without state income tax — one of the few big states where that's true. Combined with the mid-pack $125 formation fee, a compliant Florida LLC costs about $263.75 in state fees across its first year, and $138.75 each year after. It's not the cheapest state in the Southeast (Michigan-style $25 reports don't exist here), but for what is effectively America's small-business capital — Florida leads the nation in new business applications per our Formation Index — the pricing is unremarkable in the best way.
Every other Florida LLC fee, from the Sunbiz schedule
First, a detail almost every guide flattens: Florida's $125 formation cost is actually two separate fees — a $100 filing fee plus a mandatory $25 registered agent designation. You cannot avoid the $25 by acting as your own agent; it is the fee for naming one, whoever it is. Everything else below is optional or situational, straight from the state's fee schedule, checked 31 August 2026.
| Filing | Fee | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Filing fee (required) | $100 | The Articles of Organization themselves |
| Registered agent designation (required) | $25 | Mandatory — this is the other half of the “$125” |
| Certificate of status at formation (optional) | $5 | Cheapest proof-of-existence document of any state on this site |
| Certified copy at formation (optional) | $30 | Banks and lenders sometimes ask |
| Annual report (by May 1) | $138.75 | Includes the supplemental fee |
| Annual report received after May 1 | $538.75 | The $400 penalty, stated as a total |
| Amended annual report | $50 | Correcting a report you already filed |
| Name reservation | $25 | Optional — Florida does not require it |
| Change of registered agent | $25 | Switching agent mid-year |
| Registered agent resignation (active LLC) | $85 | Paid by the agent, not you — but it signals a costly exit |
| Any other amendment | $25 | Name change, member change, address change |
| Articles of dissolution / withdrawal | $25 | Closing the LLC properly |
| Reinstatement | $100 | Plus every missed year's annual report fee |
The reinstatement line is the one to take seriously, because it compounds with Florida's September dissolution. Miss the May 1 report, ignore the $538.75, and the state dissolves the LLC in September — reviving it then costs $100 plus the full annual report fee for every year missed, on top of losing your name if someone else took it. The sequence turns a $138.75 filing into several hundred dollars and a scramble, which is why this page keeps returning to one date.
Our LLC cost calculator computes first-year and five-year totals for all 51 jurisdictions from the same verified dataset as this page — including Florida — and the full table is downloadable as CSV.