South Dakota Annual Report: Due Date, Fee & How to File

Every South Dakota LLC owes the state an annual report under SDCL 47-34A-211, and corporations carry an equivalent obligation under the Business Corporation Act (SDCL Ch. 47-1A). The filing is administered by the South Dakota Secretary of State's Business Services division. It is not a tax return or a financial statement. It simply confirms the details the state keeps on your entity, including your registered agent, and it must be filed every year to keep your company in good standing.

South Dakota Annual Report Due Date

Your report is due during your entity's anniversary month each year, meaning the month in which the company was originally formed or registered. The filing window opens on the first day of that month, and the report becomes delinquent after the last day of the same month. If your LLC was formed in April, you file between April 1 and April 30, and on May 1 you are officially delinquent.

The obligation repeats annually for as long as the entity exists, even in years when nothing about your business changed. There is no advantage to waiting, so most owners file as soon as the window opens.

South Dakota Annual Report Fee

The official South Dakota annual report fee is $55 when filed online, or $70 on paper (the $55 base plus a $15 paper processing charge). The online fee rose from $50 to $55 effective July 1, 2025, under House Bill 1024, so older guides quoting $50 are out of date.

A few entity types run on different numbers. Nonprofit corporations pay a reduced $10 online or $25 on paper. Limited partnerships and LLLPs organized under SDCL Ch. 48-7 file no annual report at all. And while we are on the subject of what South Dakota does not collect: the state has no state income tax and no corporate income tax.

How to File the South Dakota Annual Report

Reports are filed through the Secretary of State's SOS Enterprise portal, with a mail-in option for those who prefer paper.

1. Wait for your filing window. The online form opens on the first day of your anniversary month.
2. Log in to the SOS Enterprise portal and pull up your entity. Companies in Active or Delinquent status can e-file; a dissolved or revoked entity has to go through reinstatement first.
3. Review the report's contents. You will confirm your registered agent, either a noncommercial agent with a South Dakota street address or a commercial agent identified by CRA number. Manager-managed LLCs list their managers or governors; members do not have to be listed at all.
4. Pay the fee: $55 online, or $70 if you print and mail the paper report.

Keep the confirmation for your records once the filing is accepted.

The $50 Late Fee and Administrative Dissolution

Miss the last day of your anniversary month and the report is delinquent as of the first day of the following month. South Dakota adds a $50 late fee per delinquent report on top of the filing fee.

Letting it slide gets worse. An entity that stays delinquent (typically around two months) faces administrative dissolution by the Secretary of State under SDCL 47-34A-809. A foreign LLC in the same position has its Certificate of Authority revoked under SDCL 47-34A-909. Either way, the road back runs through reinstatement, back reports, and accumulated fees you could have avoided with a single on-time filing.

How We Help

We do not submit the annual report for you; the filing needs your entity details and your payment to the state. What we do is make sure the deadline never sneaks up on you.

Compliance Reminders We alert you before your anniversary month arrives so the window never closes unnoticed.

Document Receipt Any notice the Secretary of State sends to your registered agent address, including delinquency warnings, gets scanned the day it arrives and forwarded to you electronically.

Stable Agent Information The report asks for your registered agent's details. With our service those details stay identical year after year, so that section of the filing never needs attention.

All of it comes standard with our $99 per year registered agent service.

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