Colorado Annual Report Filing: Due Date, Fee & How to File

Colorado requires an annual report, it just files under a different name. The governing statute, C.R.S. § 7-90-501, calls the filing the Periodic Report, and every LLC, corporation, and nonprofit on record with the Colorado Secretary of State submits one each year. The official filing fee is $25, the report is accepted online only, and the deadline follows your company's anniversary month. Here is the whole 2026 picture.

When Is the Colorado Annual Report Due?

By the last day of your periodic report month, which is the month your company was formed (or registered here, for out-of-state companies). The state prints your periodic report month on your entity's Summary page in the Secretary of State's business database, so you never have to guess.

The window is generous: it opens on the first day of the second month before your report month and closes on the last day of the second month after it. That adds up to five penalty-free months. A company formed in June, for instance, can file any time from April 1 through August 31 without consequence.

One caution. Colorado only emails a courtesy reminder the month before your report month if you have opted into the state's email notification service. Owners who never opt in often hear nothing until the penalty has already landed.

Colorado Annual Report Fee: $25

The official Colorado filing fee is $25 per report. The fee sat at $10 for years before rising to $25 on July 1, 2024, so treat any guide still quoting $10 as out of date. LLCs, corporations, and nonprofits all pay the same $25 (there is no nonprofit discount), and foreign companies registered in Colorado pay it on the same schedule as domestic ones.

How to File the Colorado Periodic Report

Filing is online only. Colorado publishes no paper version of the Periodic Report and accepts nothing by mail, which also means there is no form number to look up. The whole process runs through the Secretary of State's portal:

1. Look up your company in the Secretary of State's business database and open its Summary page, where your periodic report month and record details appear.
2. Choose the Periodic Report filing option while your five-month window is open.
3. Confirm the two items the report actually updates: the principal office address and the registered agent's information. Colorado does not collect member, manager, officer, or director names on this filing, and the company name and home jurisdiction cannot be changed here; each of those requires its own separate filing.
4. Pay the $25 fee and submit. Submitting also affirms that your registered agent has consented to the appointment under C.R.S. 7-90-301.

The state's Periodic Report FAQ is worth a bookmark for the edge cases.

The $50 Late Penalty and the Road to Dissolution

Let the window close without filing and your company's status becomes Noncompliant, which triggers a $50 late penalty. Stay Noncompliant for roughly 60 days past the end of your report month and the status drops again, to Delinquent. A company that remains Delinquent is headed for administrative dissolution by the Secretary of State; a foreign company has its Colorado authority revoked instead.

The cure is refreshingly quick: file the overdue report (or a Statement Curing Delinquency where that applies) and the company returns to Good Standing immediately upon completion. Even so, riding it that far is a bad trade, because a dissolved company loses its liability shield until it is reinstated. The state's delinquency FAQ explains the mechanics.

How We Help with Compliance

We do not file the Periodic Report on your behalf, because the state wants your own confirmation and your $25. What our registered agent service does is make sure the deadline never sneaks past:

Reminders Ahead of the Window We track your periodic report month and start nudging you before the window even opens, leaving months of margin instead of days.

Same-Day Scanning of State Mail Anything the Secretary of State sends about your report or your standing arrives at our address, gets scanned, and lands in your inbox the same day.

A Stable Colorado Address Our address anchors your public record year after year, so agent turnover never adds noise to your compliance calendar.

Straight Answers We cannot give legal advice, but we can tell you what a notice means and point you to the right state resource.

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A $50 penalty is annoying; administrative dissolution is a genuine problem. For $99 per year you get the reminders, same-day scanning, and Colorado address that keep your company in Good Standing with the Secretary of State.