New Mexico annual report: mostly a rumor, partly new law.
New Mexico runs the quietest registry in America: an LLC has never filed an annual report here, and its formation papers never named the owners either, which made this the privacy filer’s other favorite state. Two real obligations exist in the quiet: corporations file biennial reports on their fiscal-year clock, and a new every-three-years LLC report is phasing in under the revised LLC act, slowly enough that the honest answer to "what do I owe" is: let us check the live rules, not the folklore.
This year's report, prepared and filed with the Secretary of State, with your standing verified after it posts.
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No annual report, no renewal, no yearly fee, since the beginning: a New Mexico LLC’s public record is often just its formation and its registered agent. The silence is design, and it is also aging. What we watch for you →
The revised LLC act created an every-three-years report, implemented through Secretary of State rulemaking that is still rolling out. Which entities owe it, and starting when, is exactly the kind of live detail we confirm against current rules rather than assume in either direction.
Corporations never got the quiet treatment: biennial reports, due by the fifteenth day of the fourth month after fiscal year end, filed online like everything here now. 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.
The agent must hold in every era, old rules or new: with so little routine filing, an agent lapse is the one registry failure that still ends in revocation and reinstatement.
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Old rules said nothing, new rules say every three years
New Mexico LLCs have historically filed no annual report, and a new triennial report under the revised LLC act is phasing in through rulemaking, so current obligations deserve confirmation rather than assumption. Corporations file biennial reports on their fiscal-year clock. The registry stays the country’s quietest, and quiet registries reward the one company in ten that checks the live rules.
Where you stand decides what you do next
That was exactly right for years, and it is now a question rather than an answer: the triennial report is phasing in. We confirm your entity’s current obligation against the live rules and put whatever applies on a watched calendar.
Your biennial report follows your fiscal year, the fifteenth day of the fourth month after it closes, every other year. We read the date from your books and file it on the cycle the statute actually uses.
It still works: members stay off the record in every era of the rules. Keep the agent solid and the structure quiet, and pair it with identity & privacy for the rest of the footprint.
Nothing was ever due, until the year that changed
I formed the holding company here in 2015 precisely because the answer to every filing question was nothing, and for a decade that answer held. Then my attorney mentioned the new act, an every-three-years report phasing in, and I realized my decade-old certainty had become an assumption with a date on it. We checked the live rules instead of the folklore. In New Mexico, even the silence has a version number now.
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Does New Mexico require an annual report?
For LLCs, historically no, none at all, and a new every-three-years report under the revised LLC act is now phasing in through Secretary of State rulemaking. For corporations, yes: biennial reports on the fiscal-year clock. We confirm the live rules for your entity as part of annual report service.
What is the new New Mexico triennial report?
A creation of the revised LLC act: an information report due every three years, implemented gradually through rulemaking, ending the historic total silence of New Mexico LLCs. Which entities owe it and from when are live details that deserve confirmation, not assumption, and we check them against current rules before anything files.
When do New Mexico corporations file their reports?
Biennially, by the fifteenth day of the fourth month after fiscal year end, mid-April for calendar-year companies, on a clock that follows the books rather than the calendar. We read the fiscal year from your record and file on the actual cycle through a watched calendar.
Does anything on the New Mexico record reveal my LLC’s owners?
No: formation papers never named members, no annual reports ever existed to name them later, and the new triennial regime does not change the design. The registered agent is the public face. For the rest of the footprint, identity & privacy completes the quiet.
Can my New Mexico company still get into trouble with nothing due?
Yes, through the agent: with almost no routine filings, a lapsed registered agent is the one registry failure left, and it ends in revocation. Reinstatement cures it. Ours never lapses, and we watch the record year-round.
Do foreign entities registered in New Mexico file reports?
Foreign corporations follow the biennial corporate cycle; foreign LLCs have shared the domestic silence, subject to the same phasing-in of the new rules. Our multi-entity dashboard tracks the live requirements alongside every other state you operate in.
Can File.Business handle my New Mexico compliance?
Yes. We confirm your current obligations against the live rules each year, file the corporate biennial or the new triennial when they apply, hold the agent and the privacy design when they do not, with our fees itemized up front, one-time or automated.
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