Minnesota annual report: free until midnight, then gone.
Minnesota runs the gentlest deadline in the country with the hardest edge: the annual renewal is free for domestic companies, due by December 31, and at the stroke of the new year every unrenewed entity is dissolved by operation of law. No late fee exists because there is no late, only gone, and the mercy is that reinstatement is one retroactive filing. The whole system is a midnight rule with an undo button.
This year's report, prepared and filed with the Secretary of State, with your standing verified after it posts.
Four facts cover the whole system
The annual renewal, Minnesota’s name for the annual report, filed with the Secretary of State: it keeps the registration alive and the registered office current. For domestic entities in good standing it costs nothing. What we file for you →
By December 31, every year, for everyone at once, while the state is wrapping presents and closing books. The year-end timing is the entire difficulty. Put it on a watched calendar →
Nothing, for domestic entities: the renewal is free, which is why no invoice ever reminds anyone. Reinstatement after a lapse runs $25 by mail or $45 online. When we file it for you, the total is the state fee plus a transaction fee plus our service fee, as a one-time filing or on the automated annual plan, itemized on the pricing page before you pay, so nothing quoted here can go stale.
On January 1, the statute dissolves every unrenewed domestic entity automatically, and foreign ones lose authority. The mercy: reinstatement is a single filing, retroactive once granted, as if the lapse never happened.
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Renew by December 31, or start January dissolved
The Minnesota annual renewal is free for domestic entities and due by December 31. At the turn of the year, everything unrenewed is dissolved by operation of law, with no late-fee stage in between, and reinstatement is a single retroactive filing at $25 by mail or $45 online. Minnesota does not fine forgetfulness. It deletes it, then lets you undo.
Where you stand decides what you do next
Five minutes and zero dollars fixes it: file the renewal now, before the holidays swallow the date the way they swallow everything else.
Use the undo: reinstatement, one filing, $45 online, retroactive to the lapse. We file it same-day and confirm the record, because clients and lenders read January statuses in February.
A free December renewal beside paid deadlines elsewhere is exactly the filing that gets forgotten. A multi-entity dashboard holds the midnight rule with all the rest.
The company died at midnight, nobody heard a thing
We toasted the new year owning a company that had stopped existing an hour earlier. No fine, no letter, just a status that said dissolved when a client’s procurement ran the record in February. The reinstatement was one filing and forty-five dollars, retroactive, like it never happened. Minnesota charges nothing for the renewal and everything for assuming it filed itself.
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What is the Minnesota annual renewal?
Minnesota’s name for the annual report: a filing with the Secretary of State that keeps your registration alive and your registered office current, free for domestic entities in good standing. We file it every year as part of annual report service.
When is the Minnesota annual renewal due?
By December 31, every year, for every entity at once, with the statutory consequence landing at the turn of the year. The date sits under holidays and year-end closes, which is why it belongs on a watched calendar set for early December.
How much does the Minnesota annual renewal cost?
Nothing for domestic entities, one of the only free reports in the country, and that freeness is precisely why it gets missed. Reinstatement after a lapse costs $25 by mail or $45 online. When we file it for you, the total is the state fee plus a transaction fee plus our service fee, as a one-time filing or on the automated annual plan, itemized on the pricing page before you pay, so nothing quoted here can go stale.
What happens if I miss the Minnesota renewal?
On January 1, the statute dissolves every unrenewed domestic entity by operation of law, with no late-fee stage and no warning letter, and foreign entities lose their authority the same midnight. Reinstatement is a single retroactive filing, and until it lands, the dissolution is what the public record shows.
Is Minnesota reinstatement really retroactive?
Yes: once granted, the restoration relates back to the lapse, legally as if the dissolution never occurred, which is unusually merciful. What retroactivity cannot undo is a counterparty who searched the record in the gap, which is why we file the cure same-day rather than someday.
Do foreign-registered entities file the Minnesota renewal too?
Yes, by the same December 31, and the same midnight takes their Minnesota authority if they skip it, on top of whatever their home state requires. Our multi-entity dashboard holds every state’s rhythm, including the free ones.
Can File.Business file my Minnesota annual renewal?
Yes. We file the free renewal in early December every year, verify your standing after it posts, and if a lapse ever predates us, run the retroactive reinstatement same-day, with our service fee and transaction fee itemized up front, one-time or on the automated plan.
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