What North Carolina requires for LLCs
North Carolina requires domestic and foreign LLCs to file an annual report, but the due-date rule for LLCs is not the same as the one used for business corporations.
- The North Carolina Secretary of State says an LLC annual report is due on April 15 of each year after the year of creation.
- The current state due-date chart lists an online filing fee of $203 and a paper filing fee of $200 for LLCs.
Why entity type matters here
- North Carolina's business corporations use a different annual-report schedule based on the 15th day of the fourth month following the fiscal year end.
- The state's annual-report help materials also say professional entities created under Chapter 55B and nonprofit corporations created under Chapter 55A do not file these annual reports online.
Operational note
North Carolina is easy to mis-calendar if a team assumes every entity in the state uses the same rule. This is a good service-referral lane when LLCs and corporations are mixed together or when a dissolution or revocation cleanup is already underway.