Do You Have to Renew Your LLC Every Year in PA?

Yes—as of 2025, a PA LLC annual renewal is required every year. You file an annual report with the Pennsylvania Department of State between January 1 and September 30, pay a $7 fee, and confirm your LLC’s basic information. Miss it long enough and the state can administratively dissolve your LLC, strip its liability protection, and release its name.¹

When the Report Is Due

For LLCs, the filing window runs January 1 through September 30 each year.¹ The first filings came due in 2025 under Act 122 of 2022, which replaced Pennsylvania’s old once-a-decade reporting system.

If your LLC was formed or registered during 2025, you skip that year and file your first report in 2026. The Department sends reminders by email (when it has an address on file) and by postcard before the deadline.² Set your own calendar reminder anyway.

What the Annual Report Asks For

The form is DSCB:15-146. Online, most fields prepopulate from what the Department already has. You confirm or update:¹

Your LLC’s exact registered business name
The entity number assigned by the Department of State (searchable through the state’s online business search)
The registered office address where the LLC can receive legal documents
The principal office address where the LLC actually does business
At least one governor—for an LLC, this means a manager (if manager-managed) or a member who participates in management (if member-managed)

Your registered office has to be a physical street address or rural route box number in Pennsylvania. A PO box alone will not do. If your LLC has no Pennsylvania location, you can list a Commercial Registered Office Provider (CROP) instead. A CROP is not the same as a registered agent, and Pennsylvania does not require you to name a registered agent to register a business.³ Make sure you have a contract in place with the CROP before you list their address; filing without one can carry civil or criminal penalties.

How to File and What It Costs

The Department of State prefers online filing at file.dos.pa.gov. Log in, find your LLC by name, complete the report, and pay the $7 fee by credit card.¹ The system generates a confirmation once payment clears.

You can also mail a paper form to the Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations in Harrisburg with a $7 check or money order. Paper filings are date-stamped on receipt and returned by mail after processing.

The annual report can also update your registered office address at no additional charge. Outside the annual cycle, a standalone change-of-address filing runs $5.

What Happens If You Miss the Deadline

There is no separate late fee between a missed September 30 deadline and administrative dissolution. What you face instead is the dissolution process itself. The Department must give you at least 60 days’ notice before dissolving an LLC for a missed annual report.⁴ Enforcement begins with reports due in 2027: an LLC that fails to file its 2027 report and does not fix the problem during that year could be dissolved starting in 2028.¹

Administrative dissolution ends your LLC’s authorization to do business in Pennsylvania. Its legal standing and the liability shield that comes with it are effectively suspended. The state also releases the LLC’s name, and any other entity can then register it. If that happens, you will need a new name when you come back.

Reinstating a Dissolved LLC

A Pennsylvania domestic LLC dissolved for a missed annual report can apply to reinstate at any time. There is no deadline to come back. Reinstatement requires three things:¹

A reinstatement application fee: $35 online, $40 on paper⁵
Current annual report information, the same details as a normal filing
$15 for each annual report you missed and did not previously pay for⁵

For a domestic LLC, reinstatement is retroactive to the date of dissolution and the LLC keeps its original entity number. Two limits apply: you cannot reclaim your name if someone else registered it while you were dissolved, and anyone who reasonably relied on the dissolution is protected.

Foreign LLCs Are Treated Differently

If your LLC was formed in another state and registered to do business in Pennsylvania, a terminated registration cannot be reinstated retroactively. You have to file a brand-new Foreign Registration Statement, and the LLC receives a new entity number. Business activity conducted between the termination and the new registration is not validated after the fact the way it is for domestic LLCs.¹

1
Department of State | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Annual Reports in Pennsylvania
2
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Department of State Alerts Business Owners About New Annual Report Requirement Starting in 2025
3
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Commercial Registered Office Providers
4
Pennsylvania General Assembly. Pennsylvania Code Title 15 – Section 381 – Grounds for Administrative Dissolution or Cancellation
5
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of State. Fees and Payments