Missouri LLC Annual Requirements
Start with the fact that shapes everything else on this page: a Missouri LLC does not file an annual report. Not annually, not every other year, not in any form. There is also no franchise tax on Missouri LLCs. If you have been bracing for a yearly Secretary of State invoice, you can stand down; it is not coming.
Why the Requirement Does Not Exist
The Missouri Limited Liability Company Act, Chapter 347, RSMo, was written without any periodic-report provision. The recurring registration report you may have heard about is a creature of Chapter 351, Missouri's corporation law, and it binds corporations, not LLCs. Because the legislature never carried that duty over into Chapter 347, there is no LLC report form, no due date, and no report fee. Any guide quoting a Missouri LLC annual report deadline or dollar amount is describing a filing that does not exist.
The Duty That Does Continue
An empty filing calendar is not the same as zero obligations. Under RSMo 347.030, your LLC must continuously maintain a registered agent and a Missouri registered office, from formation until dissolution, with no gap in between. This is the one Secretary of State requirement that follows a Missouri LLC through its whole life, and it has consequences attached: failing to keep an agent and office on file is grounds for administrative dissolution.
In a state with no annual report, this duty deserves extra respect. Elsewhere, a lapsed agent tends to surface when the yearly filing comes around. Missouri has no such checkpoint, so an agent who quietly retires, moves, or stops forwarding mail can leave your LLC exposed with nothing built into the system to flag it.
Filings That Happen Only When Something Changes
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Get StartedEverything else a Missouri LLC files with the Secretary of State is event-driven rather than scheduled:
- A new agent or office goes on the Statement of Change of Registered Agent and/or Registered Office, Form Corp. 59, for $10, with the incoming agent signing or attaching written consent.
- A change to the articles themselves, such as a company rename, is filed as Articles of Amendment.
Neither is recurring. Years can pass without your LLC owing the state a single document.
Taxes Run on Their Own Track
The absence of a Secretary of State report says nothing about taxes. Federal income tax applies as usual, and depending on your activity, the Missouri Department of Revenue may expect sales tax collection, employer withholding, or pass-through income filings. Those are tax accounts, administered by a different agency, and they were never connected to an annual report in the first place.
How We Fit Into a No-Report State
Since the registered agent requirement is the piece of Missouri compliance that never switches off, that is the piece we cover. Registered agent service is $99 a year, and it is included for the first year when we handle your formation for $199. You get a Missouri street address on your filings, same-day scanning of served documents, and an eye on the one obligation the state will actually enforce.