Arizona LLC Annual Requirements
Does an Arizona LLC file an annual report? No. Not this year, not any year. The Arizona Corporation Commission answers the question in its own FAQ: "LLCs are not required to file annual reports. Only corporations are required to file annual reports." Nothing in A.R.S. Title 29, the statute governing Arizona LLCs, creates a periodic report, and there is no recurring ACC fee of any kind for an LLC after formation.
That puts Arizona in a small club of states with genuinely zero annual paperwork for LLCs. No report, no franchise tax, no yearly LLC tax like California's $800. If a letter arrives invoicing your LLC for an "Arizona annual report," it did not come from the state.
Why There Is Nothing to File
Arizona splits its business statutes cleanly. Corporations live under A.R.S. Title 10 and must file an annual report with the ACC. LLCs live under Title 29, which simply never imposes that duty. The exemption covers professional LLCs and out-of-state LLCs registered in Arizona too.
What Actually Keeps Your LLC in Good Standing
The obligations that continue are event-driven rather than calendar-driven:
- Keep a registered agent on file at all times. Arizona statute calls the role the statutory agent, and an LLC must maintain one continuously at a current Arizona street address. Letting the appointment lapse is the realistic way an Arizona LLC ends up on the administrative dissolution track. Our registered agent service exists for exactly this.
- Update the ACC only when something changes. An agent or address change is reported on a Statement of Change (form L020, $5), and a newly named agent signs a Statutory Agent Acceptance (form M002). These are one-off filings, not scheduled ones.
- Handle taxes separately. Federal returns, self-employment tax, and any Arizona tax registrations your activity requires all continue as normal; none of them run through the ACC.
The One-Time Publication Requirement
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Get StartedNew Arizona LLCs owe one formation-stage task that sometimes gets mistaken for an annual duty. Within 60 days of the ACC approving your Articles of Organization, notice must run in an ACC-approved newspaper in the county of your statutory agent's street address, three consecutive publications. LLCs whose agent sits in a county over 800,000 people, currently Maricopa or Pima, skip the newspaper entirely under ยง 29-3201(G); the ACC publishes to its own database instead. Do it once (or be exempt once) and it never comes back.
The 2026 Attestation of Existence
One new wrinkle arrived with the ACC's Arizona Business Center system, launched January 12, 2026. Each January the Corporations Division now flags LLCs that have filed nothing for two years and sends a free electronic prompt, the Attestation of Existence, to the statutory agent and/or owner. Responding means clicking a confirmation in the portal within 60 days. It is dormancy-triggered, carries no fee, and is not a scheduled report, so an active company that files the occasional change may never see one. Ignoring the prompt is the dangerous part: the record moves to pending inactive status and from there toward administrative dissolution. A registered agent who reliably receives and forwards ACC notices is what keeps that prompt from slipping past you.
If You Also Run a Corporation
The no-report rule is an LLC rule. Arizona corporations do file an ACC annual report, due in their anniversary month, at $45 for a for-profit and $10 for a nonprofit. Owners with both entity types should be careful not to map the corporate calendar onto the LLC, or the reverse.