Your Wisconsin Annual Report: Deadline, Fee, and What Happens If You Skip It

Wisconsin wants a short status report from your business once a year, filed with the Department of Financial Institutions (DFI). That is the agency running business filings here; there is no Secretary of State in the picture. The legal hook for LLCs is Wis. Stat. § 183.0210. Blow the filing off and the fees stack up, then the state starts dissolving things. Here is the full rundown.

Wisconsin Annual Report Due Date: Your Anniversary Quarter

No universal deadline in Wisconsin. The deadline is the close of the calendar quarter your LLC's anniversary date falls in:

• Anniversary lands January through March? File by March 31.
• April through June? June 30.
• July through September? September 30.
• October through December? December 31.

Your window opens on day one of that quarter, and the DFI gives you a heads-up notice roughly 60 to 90 days ahead of the window. One thing it does not give you: a grace period.

One exception: foreign LLCs (formed elsewhere, registered in Wisconsin) all file in the first quarter, due March 31 every year, no matter when they registered.

Wisconsin's Annual Report Fee: $25 Online, $40 If You Mail It

File online and the report is $25 for a domestic LLC. File on paper and it jumps to $40; the extra $15 is a paper surcharge under DFI-CCS 10.01(6). Foreign LLCs pay more at both tiers: $65 online, $80 on paper.

Unless online filing genuinely is not an option for you, there is no reason to pay the paper premium.

What Form 5 Actually Asks For

LLCs report on Form 5 (CORP5), a form shared with nonstock corporations. A few quirks worth knowing:

• One name only: a single member or a single manager. The DFI does not want your full ownership roster.
• Your registered agent's email address is required, not optional.
• The registered office has to be a real Wisconsin street address, never just a PO box or mailbox service.
• Leave any question blank and the report bounces back to you unfiled.
• There is no "nature of business" question on the LLC portion of the form.

Filing the Wisconsin Annual Report in Four Steps

1. Find your quarter. Look up your formation date, identify the calendar quarter it sits in, and note that quarter's last day.
2. Pull your details together. Entity name, DFI ID number, principal office, registered agent name and email, the registered office street address, and one member or manager name.
3. File through the official state portal. Annual reports go through Wisconsin's One Stop Business Portal. Pay the $25 and submit. Paper Form 5 with $40 works too, just slower.
4. Confirm it took. Search your entity in the DFI's records afterward and make sure the status reads current.

Miss the Window? Delinquency Fees and Dissolution

Delinquency fees. You are delinquent the first day after your quarter closes. The DFI tacks on $25 for every delinquent year, on top of the filing fee you still owe.

Administrative dissolution. Keep ignoring it and the state dissolves the LLC under Wis. Stat. § 183.0708. Foreign LLCs get their authority revoked under § 183.09101 instead.

The cleanup. Reinstating means filing every missed report, paying every stacked fee, and processing reinstatement paperwork. All avoidable for $25 and ten minutes.

How Wisconsin Registered Agent.co Helps

We do not file the report for you. We make sure you never lose track of it:

Deadline tracking. We know your anniversary quarter and ping you before the window opens.

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