How to File a Periodic Report in Colorado: Deadlines and Fees

To file a periodic report in Colorado, go to the Secretary of State’s website at coloradosos.gov, search for your entity, confirm or update your registered agent and principal office information, and pay the $25 fee. The whole thing takes about five minutes if you have your 11-digit entity ID ready. Every reporting entity gets a five-month filing window centered on its anniversary month, and filing on time keeps your business in good standing.

Who Has to File

LLCs, corporations, nonprofit corporations, and foreign entities registered in Colorado all owe a periodic report every year.¹ The requirement comes from C.R.S. § 7-90-501 and applies to any entity with a formation document or statement of foreign entity authority on file with the state.²

Sole proprietorships and general partnerships that never filed formation documents with the Secretary of State have no periodic report obligation.

What to Have Ready Before You Start

The one thing you truly need is your entity’s 11-digit ID number, assigned when the business was first registered. It appears on your certificate of formation or incorporation. If you don’t have the paperwork, look yourself up in the business database on coloradosos.gov; the search will return your entity ID, your exact legal name on file, and your current status.¹

The report itself asks you to confirm or update two items: your registered agent’s name and Colorado street address (no P.O. boxes), and your principal office address.³ You can change your registered agent inside the periodic report filing, so there is no separate form to file for that.⁴

Filing Online, Step by Step

Colorado accepts periodic reports only through the Secretary of State’s website. Paper filings are not accepted.¹

Go to the periodic report filing page on coloradosos.gov and search by your 11-digit entity ID or business name.⁵
On the confirmation page, verify the entity is yours and click Confirm.
From the Documents Available for Filing page, choose the periodic report link.
Review the pre-populated registered agent and principal office fields. Change what has changed; leave what is still correct.
Check the summary screen, then submit.
Pay the $25 fee to finalize the filing.⁶

Once payment goes through, the system produces a PDF confirmation and your status on the public database updates right away. Save or print the PDF; it is your receipt.

When It’s Due

Your report month is generally the anniversary month of your entity’s formation. The filing window opens two months before that month and closes two months after, giving you a five-month span each year.¹ If your report month is January, you can file anywhere from November 1 through March 31.

The first periodic report is due no later than the last day of the second month after the first anniversary of your formation month.² Form an LLC in March 2025 and your first report is due by May 31, 2026. The annual cycle continues on that schedule thereafter.

The Fee and How to Pay

The filing fee is $25 for every entity type, whether LLC, corporation, nonprofit, or foreign entity.⁶ Payment happens at the time you submit the filing, and if the transaction fails, the report doesn’t count.

Accepted payment methods:⁷

Credit or debit cards from Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover, issued in the United States.
Prepaid or gift cards from the same four networks.
A prepaid account with the Secretary of State’s office, which frequent filers can set up in advance.

What Happens If You Miss the Window

Missing the deadline moves your entity through two status changes. Take a January report month as the example: the filing deadline is March 31. If you don’t file by then, your status flips from Good Standing to Noncompliant, and a late report becomes due by May 31. Still no filing by May 31? Your status changes to Delinquent.⁸

Delinquent status is public. Banks, lenders, and contract counterparties check the Secretary of State’s database, and a delinquent flag can block loan closings, credit lines, and new agreements.

Curing a Delinquency

A delinquent entity is restored to good standing by filing a Statement Curing Delinquency through the Secretary of State’s website. This is a distinct form from the standard periodic report, so make sure you select the curing delinquency filing.⁸ For entities delinquent less than five years, the process is straightforward.

Entities delinquent for five years or longer face additional requirements under C.R.S. § 7-90-904(1)(c)(III). You must submit the Statement Curing Delinquency under penalty of perjury, attach an affidavit confirming that the person filing has authority to act for the entity, and include a copy of that person’s government-issued photo ID.⁸

If a bank or counterparty wants formal proof, a Certificate of Good Standing is a separate document you can request after curing the delinquency. Good standing simply means the entity has met its statutory filing requirements with the Secretary of State.⁹

Email Reminders

The Secretary of State sends two courtesy email reminders. The first arrives roughly a week before your periodic report month begins; the second lands about a week before the two-month grace period ends. They typically go out on the 23rd or 24th of the month.¹⁰

These reminders are a courtesy, not a legal obligation. You are responsible for filing on time whether the email reaches you or not.¹ If the contact email on your record is stale, update it through the business database. It is one of the easier compliance steps you can take, and it protects you from missing a deadline you didn’t know was coming.

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Colorado Secretary of State. Periodic Reports
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Justia Law. Colorado Code 7-90-501 – Periodic Reports
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Colorado Secretary of State. Statement of Foreign Entity Authority
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Colorado Secretary of State. Registered Agent Business FAQs
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Colorado Secretary of State. Online Filing Instructions – Section: Periodic Report
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Colorado Secretary of State. Business Organizations Fee Schedule
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Colorado Secretary of State. Online Payment Information
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Colorado Secretary of State. Business FAQs – Delinquency
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Colorado Secretary of State. Certificate of Good Standing
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Colorado Secretary of State. Email and Text Notification