Annual Reporting Requirement for Pennsylvania Business Owners in 2025
The online portal for Pennsylvania business owners to file an annual report opened on January 6th. Most domestic and foreign filing associations are required to file an annual report in 2025. Details of the filing requirement are below. For additional information, please visit the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania website at dos.pa.gov/AnnualReports or call 717-787-1057 for more information about annual reports.
Fee
The fee to file the new Annual Report is $7 for business corporations, limited liability companies (LLCs), limited partnerships (LPs) and limited liability general partnerships (LLPs). No fee is required to file a report for nonprofit corporations and any LPs or LLCs with a not-for-profit purpose.
The deadline for filing the Annual Report is based on the type of association:
| ASSOCIATION TYPE | FILING DATES |
| Corporations (business and nonprofit)/domestic and foreign | January 1 – June 30 |
| Limited liability companies/domestic and foreign | January 1 – September 30 |
| Limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, business trusts, professional associations/domestic and foreign | January 1 – December 31 |
How to file the annual report
- Log in to https://file.dos.pa.gov
- Search for the company name under Business Search
- Click on “File Annual Report” icon (no PIN access required)
- Confirm/update your entity information
- Pay the $7 fee (no fee for nonprofits)
- Receive your filed report within minutes under the My Business Work Queue
The Commonwealth of PA strongly encourages the submission of annual reports online at file.dos.pa.gov. Annual reports submitted electronically through Business Filing Services will be automatically and immediately processed, with the filed report available within minutes in the filer’s online My Business Work Queue. Entity information already on file will be prepopulated into the Annual Report form, which avoids filer error.
Annual report filings submitted on paper will be date-stamped with the date of receipt and go into the regular work queue, to be processed with that day’s work, with the filed document returned by mail.
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