Pennsylvania Department of State - Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations

Annual Registration – Restricted Professional Limited Liability Company

Mail or online.

$560 times the number of licensed PA professional members.

Annually by April 15.

Pennsylvania Statutes § 8998.

Penalties commence May 15 with a $500 fee and a second lien against the assets of the business.

Only PLLCs offering one of the following restricted professional services need to file an annual registration: Chiropractic, dentistry, law, medicine and surgery, optometry, osteopathic medicine and surgery, podiatric medicine, public accounting, psychology or veterinary medicine.

Annual Report

Mail or online. 

$0

By April 30 of each year where there has been a change in corporate officers during the preceding calendar year.

15 Pa.C.S. § 5110

Annual reports are only required in years where there has been a change in the organization's officers.

Online

$40

Decennial Report of Association Continued Existence

Mail

$70

Decennial reports are due every ten years during years ending with the numeral "1" (2021, 2031, etc.). Reports must be filed by December 31 of decennial report years.

54 PA Cons Stat § 503.

• The decennial report requirement only applies to entities that were registered in Pennsylvania prior to the end of the previous decennial reporting year and that have not made an amended filing with the Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations since the end of the previous decennial reporting year.
• Nonqualified foreign entities with a name registration in Pennsylvania and corporations that have updated their list of officers with the Department within the last 10 years are generally exempt from the decennial reporting requirement.

Registration of Fictitious Name

Mail or online.

$70

Filing a fictitious name registration is mandatory to conduct business under any other name than your personal legal name or a registered business name.

Filing is not required at the county level.

Registration of a trade name does not confer ownership rights and does not prevent another entity from using the same fictitious name.

• Firms using fictitious names must publish name, address, and other business information in two newspapers in the county of their principal office.

Foreign Registration Statement

Mail or online.

$250

15 PA Con Stat § 411

Certified copies not required.

Good standing certificate not required.