In this video, I'm going show you how to either download, print, and mail your Annual Registration
Fee, or how to pay and file online.
There's a link below this video which will take you to the State's website.
I'm going to click on "Corporations" which will scroll the page down, and then let's
click on "File Online".
You should have already created a cGov360 account.
If you have not done so already, please make sure to watch the video on how to do that.
In this case, I'm going to log on.
I'm going to enter my username and password, and then I'm going to click the "Log On" button.
Once you're logged, on you'll see 4 tabs.
You want to be on the 1st tab on the left (it says "Business Filings").
Let's first discuss "downloading, printing, and then mailing in the Annual Registration
Fee.
You're going to go under the "Reports" column where it says "Annual Registration" and you're
going to find a link that says "Print Your Annual Registration - LLC" (it's right here).
For me, it's the 3rd one down the list.
I'm going to click that link.
What you're going to do is you're going to enter the name of your LLC.
You do not need to include letters "LLC".
In my example, I'm going to be using a sample company by the name of "Peachtree Prompters,
LLC".
I'm just going to enter in "peachtree prompters" with the name, and instead of the search depth
"Exact" I'm just going to go "Starts With", and then I'm going to click "Search".
You'll see here is the LLC in question, so I'm going to click on the name of the LLC.
Next, I'm going to enter the "Report Year".
Remember, the Annual Registration Fee is paid for the year going forward, not the year prior
like taxes.
I'm going to enter "2014" for this example and click "Next".
On this page, all you do is hit "Next" at the bottom.
The next page will say "Complete" and you'll see "Annual Registration Document".
You're going to click this icon here, and it will load up a new window.
What I first recommend doing is if you hover your mouse on the screen in lower right-hand
corner, some icons will appear where you can print this directly from this page or you
can save it.
I recommend saving it first by clicking on this "Disk" icon, and then saving that to
your computer.
After you've done that, you can go ahead and hit the "Print" icon and print this document
out.
Let's take a quick look at the document.
You can see here that it's 2 pages.
However, the 2nd page is blank, so you really only need the 1st page.
The information will be a little chopped off here underneath the "Registered Agent Address",
and how this works, is you're going to send us back in, follow the instructions above,
make sure to include your $50 payment, and if no information is changing this year, you
will simply fill out the bottom and sign.
Let me zoom in a little bit here and let's take a closer look.
Let's say that no changes need to be made.
If that's the case, the only thing you need to do is fill in the date, fill in your title.
Here, you can enter "Managing Member" (again, that's "Managing Member"), and then put your
email address over here, and then sign where it says "Authorized Signature".
You're then going to mail this slip along with your payment to the address listed at
the top of this document.
If you do need to make any changes to the information, you will simply just fill in
the boxes here.
And if the county does change as well, that goes over here.
You can see the existing counties ("Dekalb County") for this example.
Just to repeat: if you're making changes, simply fill in the forms here.
Make sure you also fill in the "County Box" if the county is changing.
You're going to sign, date, title as "Managing Member", and put your email address in as
well.
Another very important note is that the State of Georgia does not send reminders telling
you when to pay your Annual Registration Fee.
Make sure that you do this every year or the State will assess late fees, and eventually
they will dissolve or shut down your LLC if you continue to ignore this requirement.
I'm going to close this window, and let's look at our 2nd option of filing and paying
online.
I'm going to click "Home", I'm going back to "Business Filings", and instead of under
the "Reports" column, I'm going go under "Miscellaneous" ("Limited Liability Company"), and you'll
see here it says "Annual Registration-LLC-Online".
I'm going to click that link (gives you some information here about the filing procedures).
Feel free to take a read-through, then click "Next" at the bottom.
Next, in the search box, you're going to enter your LLC name.
I'm going to go ahead and enter my sample company.
I'm going hit "Search Depth Starts With", and click "Search".
Here's "Peachtree Prompters, LLC".
I'm going to click the name.
Next, I'm going to fill in the year that I'm filing this report.
All you need to do on this page is simply go through all the fields here, and update
the address in the information as needed.
If no changes need to be made, you can simply leave everything as is.
Once you review all the information and make any changes if applicable.
Again, if nothing changes, just leave it the same.
Let's click "Next".
Next, we're going to fill in the signer information.
This will be yourself (the person filing this).
What you're going to do on this page, you're simply going to fill out your name at the
top, and then include your address.
Include your email and then under "Executing Officer Type", you're going select the drop
down, and you're going to go down to "Member/Manager" at the bottom.
Once everything is done here, you can go ahead and click "Next".
The next page is simply a review.
Take a view through all the information; make sure it's correct.
If so, go ahead and click "Next".
If you need to make any changes, just click the "Back" button.
I'm going to go click "Next" in this case.
Here is where we're going to enter our payment.
It shows the amount ($50), and for "Payment Type", I'm going to select "Credit Card".
What you'll do on this page is simply enter your credit card information, the name on
the card, the billing address, your phone number, card type, credit card information
and hit "Next".
Since I'm just showing you an example, I cannot proceed past this step.
So once you fill out all the information, go ahead and click "Next".
Shortly after this step, you will see a success message and your Annual Registration Fee will
be filed.
Again, remember that the State of Georgia does not send any reminders for when the Annual
Registration Fee is due.
It's your responsibility to make sure that you file on time every year.
Even if no information within your company has changed, you still have to update the
State with your records on an annual basis.
And that concludes the Annual Registration Fee Lesson.