Vermont Annual Report: What to File, When, and for How Much

Vermont ties your annual report deadline to your fiscal year, charges $45 for an LLC, and only accepts the filing online. Miss the window and penalties start; ignore it long enough and the state dissolves your entity. Here is the whole picture.

The Basics

The annual report is an administrative filing, not a financial disclosure. Under 11 V.S.A. § 4033(a), an LLC's report carries four things: the company name, the state or country where it was organized, the designated office's street and mailing address, and the registered agent's name, email, and address. Yes, email. The current statute wants your agent's email address on file, not just a mailbox.

The online system also asks for your business email and your principals, each labeled Member or Manager. One thing you cannot do here: swap your registered agent. That takes a separate $35 filing, covered on our change of agent page.

Vermont Annual Report Due Date

The rule: due within three months after your fiscal year ends, per 11 V.S.A. § 4032. Not your formation anniversary. Not a fixed date printed on a calendar.

Calendar-year LLCs: the window is January 1 through March 31. Any other fiscal year on record shifts the window with it.

Corporations: shorter leash. Two and a half months after fiscal year end, so January 1 through March 15 for calendar-year corporations.

Nonprofits: biennial, not annual. The report lands between January 1 and April 1 of the report year, every other year.

The Vermont Annual Report Fee Is $45

A domestic LLC pays $45, per the fee schedule in 11 V.S.A. § 4012 (statute text here). Plenty of guides still print $35. That was the old fee, and it no longer applies.

Foreign LLCs registered in Vermont pay $170 for the identical report. Domestic corporations pay $60, foreign corporations $250, and nonprofits pay $35 for the biennial report, or $0 if they certify nobody was compensated the prior year.

Filing the Vermont Annual Report, Step by Step

Vermont is online-only for this filing. No paper option. Everything runs through the Online Business Service Center, and the state's annual and biennial reports page is the official starting point.

1. Log in to the Online Business Service Center and open your entity record. Only entities in active status can file online, so fix a lapsed record before anything else.
2. Verify the statutory information: name, home jurisdiction, designated office addresses, and your registered agent's name, email, and street address.
3. Update the principal list, tagging each person Member or Manager.
4. Pay the $45 state fee (or $170 if you are a foreign LLC) and submit. Keep the confirmation.

What Happens If You File Late

Delinquency is immediate. There is no grace period. The first day after your three-month window closes, the report is late.

A penalty gets added. Vermont does not advertise one flat late-fee figure; the amount most commonly cited falls between $25 and $35 on top of the filing fee.

The state can dissolve you. Continued non-filing brings administrative dissolution under 11 V.S.A. § 4039 for domestic LLCs, and revocation of authority for foreign ones. Reinstatement exists, but it means back filings, extra payments, and a public record showing you fell out of good standing.

How Vermont Registered Agent.co Helps

We do not prepare or file your annual report. What we do is track your fiscal-year window and send reminders in advance so you have time to gather information and file before the deadline.

We also watch for compliance notices the Secretary of State sends to your registered office. If the state mails a reminder or warning to your registered agent address, we scan it and email it to you the same day. No waiting on paper mail to learn your status changed.

This deadline tracking is included in your $99/year subscription alongside all our other registered agent services: same-day document scanning, portal access, and address privacy.

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