Compliance & Filing

Florida employer requirements boil down to a few registrations before your first hire and a steady rhythm of payroll filings afterward. Before anyone starts, you need an EIN, a Florida reemployment tax account and, depending on your industry and headcount, workers’ compensation insurance. After that, it’s withholding, deposits, quarterly reports and keeping the paperwork. FloridaContinue reading “Florida Employer Requirements: What New Businesses Must Do”

Check this first. In March 2025, FinCEN issued an interim final rule that exempts companies formed in the US, and their US owners, from BOI reporting. If your LLC was formed in Florida, you most likely don’t have to file a Florida BOI report right now. The rule now applies mainly to companies formed outsideContinue reading “Florida Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) Report Guide”

If you don’t file your Florida annual report by May 1, you owe a $400 late fee on top of the regular fee, starting May 2. That’s the Florida annual report late penalty, and there’s no grace period. If the report still isn’t filed by the third Friday in September, the state administratively dissolves yourContinue reading “What Happens If You Don’t File Your Florida Annual Report?”

Florida annual report filing is due by May 1 every year for every Florida LLC and corporation. It costs $138.75 for an LLC and $150 for a corporation, you file it online at Sunbiz.org, and missing it adds a $400 late fee. Leave it unfiled until the third Friday in September and the state dissolvesContinue reading “Florida Annual Report Filing: Deadlines, Fees, and How-To”

Florida Sunbiz (Sunbiz.org) is the website of the Florida Division of Corporations, and it’s where nearly every state-level filing for a Florida business happens: forming an LLC or corporation, filing the annual report, changing your registered agent, and looking up other companies. If you own a Florida business, you’ll be back on it at leastContinue reading “Florida Sunbiz: How to Use the Division of Corporations Website”

A Florida Certificate of Status costs $8.75 for the standard version or $24.25 for a certified one, and you can download it from Sunbiz right after you pay. It’s the state’s official confirmation that your LLC or corporation is in good standing, and banks, lenders and other states often ask for it before they’ll doContinue reading “Florida Certificate of Status: Cost, How to Get One, and When You Need It”