New Jersey Foreign Registration / Yearly report
The New Jersey annual report for a foreign LLC: fee, contents and what a missed one costs
A foreign LLC with a New Jersey registration owes an annual report each year at $75, the main running cost of staying registered. Two missed years in a row can end the authority.
Report facts
- Fee for an LLC
- $75
- Fee for a corporation or limited partnership
- $75
- Fee for a nonprofit
- $30
- Filed through
- The online Annual Reports and Change Services
- Reminders
- Free text and email from the online service
- Revocation
- Possible after two consecutive missed years
- Statute
- N.J.S.A. 42:2C-26
What the report contains
Each report restates the LLC's name and address, who its registered agent is and where, and who its managers or managing members are. DORES describes the same filing as keeping the record current with your officers or members, main business address and registered agent. Gather those details before you start, since the online service asks for them.
When is it due?
The reminders service can send a text or email before it is due, and signing up for it is the practical fix. We check the date when we prepare your filing.
How to file it
File online through the Annual Reports and Change Services, which also handles changes to the registered agent, reinstatements and closings. The service produces a certificate as proof of filing that can be validated. You will need the entity's identification number and the month and year it was authorized in New Jersey.
What a missed report costs
Businesses that fail to file annual reports for two consecutive years may have their charter voided or their authority revoked. For an LLC the statute allows the filing office to revoke a foreign LLC's certificate when no annual report has been filed for two consecutive years. The fee itself is a flat $75; the cost of missing it is the revocation and the repair.
Reinstating a revoked LLC
A revoked LLC reinstates through the same online service, and the process begins with the annual report filing. The reinstatement fee for an LLC is $75, and the current annual report is $75 on top, so the minimum bill is $150. Delinquent annual reports are added in variable amounts. If the registered agent also changed, $25 more covers the change.
Tax clearance after two years
Since July 9, 2020, an LLC on the inactive list needs a tax clearance certificate to reinstate if more than two years have passed since revocation. The online system says whether clearance is needed. If it is, the system generates an application and the LLC is reinstated only after the Division of Taxation issues the certificate. The practical lesson is to reinstate within two years.
Updating the record between reports
Do not wait for the report to correct a changed agent or office. A change costs $25 and is filed through the same service, and other amendments cost $100. The statute asks for a prompt correction when a statement in the application turns out false or becomes false.
Reports from other entity types
For a corporation or limited partnership the report is $75, and for a nonprofit $30. The two-year rule covers every entity type. Corporations also face tax-related revocation for missing corporation business tax filings.
Worked example: three years registered
Take an LLC that registers and then files reports faithfully. It pays $100 once, and $75 a year thereafter, so registration plus the first report comes to $175. One that stops reporting after the first and is later revoked would owe $75 to reinstate, plus every report it missed.
Who files it
The person who files must know the entity's identification number and the month and year it was authorized. Give one trusted person that information, and make sure the registered agent's email address in the record belongs to someone who reads it, since the state sends its notices there.
Our role
We can prepare your annual report for $199 when you order, and we tell you the date once it appears in your account.
Registered agent: first year included, then $149 a year
$199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Annual report questions
How much is the report?
$75 for an LLC.
How often is it due?
Every year.
What happens if I miss it?
Two consecutive years can lead to revocation.
What does reinstating cost?
$75 plus the current report and any missed ones.
Our fee and the New Jersey fee
Register in New Jersey
New Jersey
$199
+ $100 New Jersey fee
- The New Jersey Public Records Filing, completed from your answers
- A check that the home-state good standing certificate is ready to attach
- Our New Jersey agent and office, or an agent of your own choosing
- The filed record is returned to you
- Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year
The Treasury's fee for a foreign LLC is $100, and checkout lists it on its own line, separate from our charge. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Sources
- New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services, registry fee schedules
- New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services, reinstatement fees
- New Jersey Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, chapter 50
- New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services, home page
- New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services, Business Formation service
- New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services, Annual Reports and Change Services
- New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services, reinstate a revoked or voided business
Ready to register in New Jersey?
Place the order and we prepare the filing in the form the Treasury expects.