Kentucky businesses registered with the Secretary of State’s office must file an annual report with the agency by June 30, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes reminded Monday.
For the third year in a row, Kentucky businesses appear to be ready to break the Secretary of State’s records for annual report filings online. More than 126,000 entities have completed the annual report requirement online, more than the total on this date last year.
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“Over the course of our term, Kentucky businesses have increasingly utilized our easy online tools and are breaking records again,” said Grimes, Kentucky’s chief business official. “At this time last year, about three-quarters of businesses had filed their reports online at sos.ky.gov. Now, 80 percent of filers have gone online, saving themselves and our office time and money in processing.”
Grimes is reminding businesses in Kentucky that they must file an annual report with her office and pay a $15 filing fee no later than June 30. The filing requirement applies to the all of the business entities authorized to do business in Kentucky – more than 200,000. All businesses were sent reminders through U.S. mail or email.
Businesses that are already registered can immediately obtain pre-populated 2018 annual reports by visiting the Secretary of State’s website, sos.ky.gov. Entities may also file and pay in person or via U.S. mail.
Businesses that have not provided email addresses to the office are encouraged to do so, Grimes said. In addition to reminders of important deadlines, the Secretary of State’s office will email notifications of any changes or filings made for your business, which may help detect attempted business identity theft. For more resources to protect your business from identity theft, visit BusinessIDTheft.org.
If a business fails to file its annual report by June 30, it falls into bad standing with the office and receives a final 60-day notice. Failure to comply with the 60-day notice results in administrative dissolution of the business or revocation of authority to do business in Kentucky.
