CO · read September 28, 2026
Colorado LLC cost
What Colorado's official pages state about the cost of a standard domestic LLC: the filing fee, the annual report and any annual tax, each with the page it was read on and the date.
- Formation document
- Articles of Organization
- Formation fee
- $50 source, read 2026-09-28 note
- Periodic report
- Periodic Report, every year
- Report fee
- $25 source, read 2026-09-28 note
- Report due
- in the LLC's periodic report month, shown on its record; it can be filed from two months before that month to two months after it without penalty source, read 2026-09-28
- Annual tax
- not read note
- Tax due
- not read
- Publication
- not read
Scope: a standard domestic LLC at standard processing speed, filed online where the online and paper fees differ. The figure shown is the one the cited page states; an add-on or a paper fee that the page also states is in the note under the figure, and nothing is computed from a note.
Colorado LLC filing fee
$50 to file the Articles of Organization
Note from the reading Under the heading 'Limited liability company': online fee $50.00, paper fee 'n/a' (filing is online only).
“Articles of Organization $50.00 n/a”
Colorado LLC annual report and due date
$25 to file the Periodic Report, every year
Note from the reading Late filing penalty $50.00. Frequency and due rule read at https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/business/FAQs/reports.html : 'required by law to submit a Periodic Report each year' and 'The Periodic Report can be filed two months prior to the Periodic Report month or two months after without any penalty.' The pages read do not say how the periodic report month is assigned.
- Report
- Periodic Report
- Required
- Yes
- How often
- Every year
- Fee
- $25
- Due
- in the LLC's periodic report month, shown on its record; it can be filed from two months before that month to two months after it without penalty
- Read
- 2026-09-28 (UTC)
“Periodic Report $25.00 n/a”
Colorado LLC annual tax or franchise tax
not read
Not read. No official statement was read today on whether the state charges LLCs an annual, franchise or privilege tax separate from the report fee.
Not read is not the same as no tax. It means no official page was read that says whether Colorado charges an LLC an annual, franchise or privilege tax separate from the report fee.
Publication requirement
not read
Not read. No official page read today states whether a newspaper publication is required of a new LLC; the formation pages read list no publication step.
Filing office and the state's own forms
Colorado Secretary of State, Business Organizations
- Business fee schedule www.sos.state.co.us
- File a business document www.sos.state.co.us
- Periodic report FAQs www.sos.state.co.us
- LLC checklist (PDF) www.sos.state.co.us
Looked for and not read
- How the periodic report month is assigned (whether it is the anniversary month of formation): not stated on the pages read.
- Any annual LLC tax or franchise tax.
- Whether newspaper publication is required.
The researcher's notes
Written by the researcher who read the pages, unedited. Field names such as due_kind are the names in this site's data file.
'Articles of Organization $50.00' appears twice on the fee schedule, under 'Limited cooperative associations' and under 'Limited liability company'; the LLC one is recorded. The Periodic Report fee is listed under 'General applicability'.
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Fees change. The state's own page is the authority: open the source link beside a figure before you file or pay. This desk is a reading of public pages. It is not legal advice and it is not tax advice.