Rhode Island annual report: revoked still gets billed.
Rhode Island gives every entity the same spring: the annual report window runs February 1 to May 1, fifty dollars, with a twenty-five dollar late fee for the tardy. The real lesson lives past the deadline: a company that lets itself be revoked does not stop owing, because the Division of Taxation’s four-hundred-dollar yearly minimum keeps accruing against it, year after year, until someone reinstates it or dissolves it properly. In this state, walking away is the most expensive plan available.
This year's report, prepared and filed with the Secretary of State, with your standing verified after it posts.
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A once-a-year confirmation filed with the Department of State: addresses, registered agent, and officials refreshed on the record. What we file for you →
Inside the statewide window from February 1 to May 1, every year, for every registered entity at once. Put it on a watched calendar →
$50 inside the window, $75 after it once the $25 late fee attaches. 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 late fee, then revocation proceedings for the persistently silent, and then the real meter: a revoked company still accrues the Division of Taxation’s $400 yearly minimum until it reinstates or dissolves properly.
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Fifty dollars in spring, four hundred a year in denial
The Rhode Island annual report is $50 inside the February-to-May window, $75 late. Persistent nonfiling brings revocation, and a revoked company keeps accruing the Division of Taxation’s $400 yearly minimum until it reinstates or dissolves properly. The registry forgives lateness for twenty-five dollars. The tax division forgives nothing, on a schedule.
Where you stand decides what you do next
Open: file now, $50, done. Closed: $75 filed today keeps revocation proceedings, and the meter behind them, entirely theoretical.
The meter is running at $400 a year whether anyone looks or not. The exits are reinstating to continue or reinstating briefly to dissolve properly, and both cost less than one more year of pretending it is over.
Then do it on paper: formal dissolution with the tax account settled is the only ending Rhode Island recognizes, and the only one that stops the billing.
They shut the doors, the meter kept running
We closed the shop in 2023 and let the LLC lapse, assuming revoked meant over. Two years later the Division of Taxation wanted its four-hundred-dollar minimum for both years, revoked or not, because in Rhode Island a company is not dead until the paperwork says so. We paid, reinstated for a week, and dissolved properly. Until then it was not a closed business. It was an open tab.
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What is the Rhode Island annual report?
A once-a-year filing with the Department of State, Rhode Island’s registry, confirming your addresses, registered agent, and officials. We prepare and file it on time as part of annual report service.
When is the Rhode Island annual report due?
Inside the window from February 1 to May 1, every year, for every registered entity at once, straight through tax season. One statewide window is easy to remember and easier to postpone, which is why it belongs on a watched calendar set for February.
How much does the Rhode Island annual report cost?
$50 inside the window, with a $25 late fee taking it to $75 after May 1. 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 Rhode Island annual report?
The $25 late fee first, revocation proceedings for the persistently silent after, and then the expensive part: a revoked company keeps accruing the Division of Taxation’s $400 yearly minimum until it reinstates or dissolves properly. Rhode Island bills the abandoned.
Does a revoked Rhode Island company really keep owing taxes?
Yes: the Division of Taxation’s yearly minimum, $400, accrues against revoked entities until they formally reinstate or dissolve with the account settled. It is the sharpest walk-away trap in New England, discovered years later by owners who assumed revocation was an ending. Proper dissolution is the only clean exit.
Do foreign-registered entities file a Rhode Island annual report too?
Yes, in the same February-to-May window at the same fees, with revocation and its tax meter behind persistent silence, on top of home-state filings. Our multi-entity dashboard tracks every state you operate in.
Can File.Business file my Rhode Island annual report?
Yes. We file the $50 report each February, ahead of the rush, verify your standing after it posts, and when it is ever time to close, we close properly, tax account and registry together, with our fees itemized up front, one-time or on the automated plan.
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