What your Arizona LLC owes the state every year to stay in good standing — and what happens when the report doesn't get filed.
Arizona is one of the handful of U.S. states that does not require LLCs to file an annual report with the Secretary of State. Once your Arizona LLC is formed, there is no recurring Secretary-of-State-side filing to keep it alive.
This is unusual and it's a real reason some founders choose Arizona as a home state: one-time formation cost, no annual renewal fee, no late-fee risk for missing a report.
Arizona requires publication of a Notice of LLC Formation in a newspaper of general circulation in the county of the known place of business, for three consecutive publications, within 60 days of approval. LLCs in Maricopa and Pima counties are exempt from the publication requirement. Arizona has no annual report or franchise tax.
No annual report doesn't mean no obligations. Every Arizona LLC still has:
Your first year of statutory agent service is included in the $299 formation fee. After that, renewal is $119/year, opt-in — we don't auto-charge and we don't store payment information between years. If Arizona sends anything — tax notices, any follow-up correspondence — it comes to our Phoenix office and gets forwarded to you within the hour.
Reservation takes three minutes. A formation specialist in Phoenix handles the rest.