Pennsylvania Form DSCB:15-8825 is the Certificate of Annual Registration that every restricted professional company (RPC) — meaning a professional limited liability company (PLLC) or limited liability partnership (LLP) practicing law, medicine, dentistry, optometry, chiropractic, podiatry, public accounting, psychology, or veterinary medicine — must file each year with the Pennsylvania Department of State Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations. Filing this form keeps the entity in good standing, pays the annual registration fee tied to the number of licensed members, and confirms that the company still meets the restricted professional service rules under 15 Pa.C.S. § 8221.
Roughly 30,000 restricted professional companies file Form DSCB:15-8825 each year, and the Bureau reports that late or wrong filings are the single biggest reason restricted professional entities lose good standing in Pennsylvania. Missing the April 15 deadline triggers interest, penalties, and the risk of administrative termination, so getting every line right matters.
Here is what this guide gives you:
- 📋 A plain-English walkthrough of every field on the current revision of Form DSCB:15-8825
- 💵 The exact annual fee math, due dates, and penalty rules tied to your member count
- 🧑⚕️ Three full named-filer scenarios (solo attorney, multi-member medical PLLC, foreign chiropractic PLLC)
- 📨 Step-by-step filing instructions for the PA Business One-Stop Shop, mail, and in-person filing
- ⚠️ The 12+ mistakes that get filings rejected, plus field-level FAQs to stop them before they happen
This article reflects the most recent revision of Form DSCB:15-8825 posted by the Bureau (rev. 7/2022, still current as of the 2026 filing cycle). Always confirm the revision date on the upper-right corner of the official PDF before you fill it out.
What Form DSCB:15-8825 Is and Who Must File It
Form DSCB:15-8825 is the Certificate of Annual Registration required by 15 Pa.C.S. § 8221(d) for every domestic restricted professional limited liability company and by 15 Pa.C.S. § 8998 for every restricted professional limited liability partnership. It is also required of foreign restricted professional companies that are registered to do business in Pennsylvania. The form ties the entity’s continued legal existence to two things at once: payment of an annual registration fee based on the number of members on the last day of the prior year, and a sworn statement that the company is still organized to render only the listed restricted professional services.
The Pennsylvania Department of State, through its Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations, receives and processes the filing. The form is not an income tax return and has nothing to do with the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue or with the federal IRS. It is purely a corporate-existence filing tied to your professional licensing status.
You must file Form DSCB:15-8825 if your entity is any of the following on December 31 of the year before the filing year:
- A Pennsylvania PLLC organized to render one or more restricted professional services
- A Pennsylvania LLP organized to render one or more restricted professional services
- A foreign restricted professional LLC or LLP registered to do business in Pennsylvania
- An entity that voluntarily elected restricted professional company status in its certificate of organization
The 10 restricted professional services under 15 Pa.C.S. § 8997 are chiropractic, dentistry, law, medicine and surgery, optometry, osteopathic medicine and surgery, podiatric medicine, public accounting, psychology, and veterinary medicine. If your entity does not render one of those, you do not file DSCB:15-8825 — instead you file the Decennial Report every ten years and otherwise have no annual registration burden.
The consequence of being required to file and not filing is severe. The Bureau will assess interest at 6% per year on the unpaid fee, a penalty of $500, and after enough time will administratively terminate the entity, stripping its limited liability shield from members for any liabilities incurred during the lapse.
Before You Start: Documents and Information You Need
Gather everything below before opening the form, because the Business One-Stop Shop portal times out after 20 minutes of inactivity and the paper form gets rejected if any required field is blank. Pulling these items first turns a 30-minute scramble into a five-minute filing.
Your pre-filing checklist:
- Department of State Entity Number (7 digits). This is the unique ID assigned when your entity was organized; without it the Bureau cannot match your filing to your record, and a wrong number gets the filing returned. Find it on your stamped Certificate of Organization or by searching PA Business Entity Search.
- Exact registered legal name of the entity. Must match the Department of State record character-for-character, including punctuation and the words “Professional Limited Liability Company” or “P.L.L.C.”; a mismatch causes a name-conflict rejection.
- Number of members on December 31 of the prior year. This number drives the entire fee calculation, so an off-by-one count costs $610 too much or too little.
- Principal office street address. Cannot be a P.O. Box; must be the actual location where company records are kept, because the Bureau uses it for service of process backup if the registered office fails.
- Registered office address in Pennsylvania (or commercial registered office provider name). Required by 15 Pa.C.S. § 109; a bad registered office means you never receive lawsuits served on the company.
- Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN). Not printed on the form itself, but required by the One-Stop portal for identity verification, and a missing FEIN stops the online submission.
- Payment method. Credit/debit card or ACH for online filings; check or money order for paper filings, payable to Department of State; wrong payee gets the check returned and the filing rejected.
- Authorized signer’s name, title, and contact email. The signer must be a member, manager, or partner with authority to bind the entity; an unauthorized signer voids the certification under penalty of perjury.
- List of restricted professional services rendered. Pulled directly from your Certificate of Organization; listing a service you are not authorized to render is a false certification.
- Prior year’s filed DSCB:15-8825 (if any). Useful for confirming the entity number, member count change, and address consistency, and stops you from contradicting last year’s filing.
Where to Get the Form and How to Access It
The official current revision of Form DSCB:15-8825 lives on the Department of State website. Download the fillable PDF of DSCB:15-8825 directly from the Bureau’s domestic LLC forms page. Confirm the revision stamp in the upper right corner reads 7/2022 or later before you begin; older revisions get rejected because the fee schedule and certification language have changed.
Most filers no longer use the PDF. The Bureau strongly prefers electronic filing through the PA Business One-Stop Shop, which auto-populates your entity name, entity number, and registered office from the Bureau’s database. The portal walks you through each field as a guided web form rather than a static PDF, and it calculates the fee for you based on the member count you enter. As of the 2025 filing cycle, more than 80% of DSCB:15-8825 filings come in through the portal, and the Bureau has signaled that paper filings will be deprecated in future years.
If you must file on paper, print the PDF on plain white 8.5 x 11 paper, single-sided, with no shrink-to-fit scaling. Two-sided printing causes the optical scanner at the Bureau to misread the form, and shrunk pages cut off the bar code in the bottom margin.
If you are filing on behalf of multiple entities, the One-Stop portal lets you save a registered filer profile that pre-fills your contact information across filings. This saves time for law firms, accountants, and registered agent services that handle dozens or hundreds of these filings every April.
Step-by-Step: How to Fill Out Form DSCB:15-8825 Line by Line
The form is a single page divided into a header block, six numbered fields, a fee block, and a signature block. Fill them in the order printed on the form. The instructions below use the exact field labels printed on the 7/2022 revision.
Header: Filing Date and Microfilm Number
What the field asks in plain English. The top-right boxes labeled Entity Number and Filed By identify your entity to the Bureau and tell the Bureau who to contact about the filing.
How to answer it. Type or print the 7-digit Entity Number assigned by the Department of State in the Entity Number box. Leave the Microfilm Number and Filed boxes blank — those are for Bureau use only.
A specific example answer. Lopez Family Dentistry, P.L.L.C. enters its entity number 6543210 in the Entity Number box and leaves the rest of the header empty.
A nuance or edge case. If you cannot find your Entity Number, search the PA Business Entity Search tool by exact name; the number appears in the search result.
A common mistake on this field and its direct consequence. Filers often write their FEIN in the Entity Number box because both are 7–9 digits. The Bureau’s system rejects the filing as no matching entity and your fee gets refunded weeks later, after the deadline.
A misconception people hold about this field. Many filers think the Entity Number changes when ownership changes; it does not. The number stays with the entity for life, even after mergers, name changes, and member buyouts.
Field 1: Name of Restricted Professional Company
What the field asks in plain English. Field 1 wants the exact registered legal name of your PLLC or LLP as it appears on your Certificate of Organization.
How to answer it. Type the name in all upper-case letters, including the required entity designator (Professional Limited Liability Company, P.L.L.C., Limited Liability Partnership, or LLP). Match every character, including commas, periods, and apostrophes.
A specific example answer. Marcus Chen, attorney, writes CHEN LAW, P.L.L.C. exactly as it reads on his stamped Certificate of Organization.
A nuance or edge case. If your entity changed its name during the prior year, use the new name and attach a note referencing the Articles of Amendment DSCB:15-8622/8822 you previously filed. The Bureau cross-references the amendment to confirm.
A common mistake on this field and its direct consequence. Filers drop the P.L.L.C. or write PLLC instead of P.L.L.C. with periods. The Bureau treats this as a name mismatch and returns the filing.
A misconception people hold about this field. Many filers believe nicknames or “doing business as” names belong here. They do not. Only the registered legal name goes in Field 1; fictitious names get filed separately on Form DSCB:54-311.
Field 2: Address of Principal Office
What the field asks in plain English. Field 2 wants the actual physical street address of the company’s principal place of business.
How to answer it. Enter street number, street name, suite or unit number, city, state, and ZIP code on the lines provided. Use the standard USPS format with no abbreviations beyond standard ones (Ste., Ave., St.).
A specific example answer. Aisha Patel, MD, writes 125 Walnut Street, Suite 400, Philadelphia, PA 19107 for her three-physician PLLC.
A nuance or edge case. If the principal office is outside Pennsylvania (allowed for foreign restricted professional companies), enter the out-of-state address here and use Field 3 for the in-state registered office. The two cannot be the same address only if you do not have a Pennsylvania physical presence.
A common mistake on this field and its direct consequence. Filers list a P.O. Box. The form rejects automatically because 15 Pa.C.S. § 109 requires a physical address for service of process.
A misconception people hold about this field. Filers think the principal office must be in Pennsylvania. It does not. Only the registered office in Field 3 must be in Pennsylvania for domestic entities.
Field 3: Registered Office Address (or Commercial Registered Office Provider)
What the field asks in plain English. Field 3 wants the Pennsylvania address where lawsuits and government notices can be delivered to the entity.
How to answer it. Enter either a Pennsylvania street address (no P.O. Box) or the name of a commercial registered office provider preceded by c/o. If you use a CROP, enter only the provider’s name and the county in which it operates.
A specific example answer. Chen Law, P.L.L.C. uses a commercial registered office provider and writes c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., Dauphin County on the line.
A nuance or edge case. If the registered office moves during the year, you must file a separate Statement of Change of Registered Office, Form DSCB:15-1507/4144/8825; you cannot just change it on this annual form.
A common mistake on this field and its direct consequence. Filers list a CROP without the c/o prefix or include a county for a street address (counties only attach to CROPs). The filing gets returned with a defective registered office notice.
A misconception people hold about this field. Filers think the registered office can be the home address of a member who lives in another state. It cannot. The registered office must be physically located in Pennsylvania, period.
Field 4: Restricted Professional Services Rendered
What the field asks in plain English. Field 4 lists the restricted professional services your company is organized to render.
How to answer it. Check or list every applicable service from the 10 categories under 15 Pa.C.S. § 8997. Match exactly what your Certificate of Organization said when you formed the entity.
A specific example answer. Aisha Patel’s three-physician PLLC checks only medicine and surgery because that is the sole service listed in her certificate.
A nuance or edge case. A multi-discipline practice (e.g., a clinic offering both chiropractic and physical therapy) can list only the restricted services here. Physical therapy is not restricted, so it gets handled under separate licensing rules and does not appear on this form.
A common mistake on this field and its direct consequence. Filers add services they later started rendering without first amending the Certificate of Organization. That makes the certification on Page 1 false, exposing the signer to perjury liability under 18 Pa.C.S. § 4904.
A misconception people hold about this field. Filers believe checking more services protects them. It does the opposite — every checked service must be backed by a licensed member rendering it, and a mismatch is a false certification.
Field 5: Number of Members on December 31 of Prior Year
What the field asks in plain English. Field 5 asks for the headcount of all members of the LLC (or partners of the LLP) as of December 31 of the year just ended.
How to answer it. Count every person, trust, or estate holding a membership interest on December 31, regardless of how small the percentage. Enter the integer. This number multiplies by the per-member fee to set the total annual fee.
A specific example answer. Aisha Patel’s PLLC had three physician members on December 31, so she enters 3.
A nuance or edge case. If a member died on December 30 and the estate had not yet been admitted, count the deceased member’s estate as one member, because the membership interest passes to the estate immediately. If a member was admitted on January 1 of the new year, do not count them — only December 31 of the prior year matters.
A common mistake on this field and its direct consequence. Filers count current members at the time of filing instead of the December 31 snapshot. If you filed on March 1 with four members but had three on December 31, you overpay by $610 and the Bureau will not refund without a written correction request.
A misconception people hold about this field. Filers think professional employees who are not members get counted. They do not. Only members (LLC) or partners (LLP) holding equity interests count.
Field 6: Annual Registration Fee
What the field asks in plain English. Field 6 is the total fee owed, calculated by multiplying the number of members in Field 5 by the per-member fee.
How to answer it. Multiply Field 5 by the current per-member fee ($610 per member as of the 2026 filing cycle, set by 15 Pa.C.S. § 8221(d) and adjusted for inflation each year by the Bureau). Enter the dollar amount with cents (e.g., $1,830.00). Always confirm the current per-member fee on the Bureau’s fee schedule before filing because the figure changes.
A specific example answer. Three members × $610 = $1,830.00, which Aisha enters on the fee line.
A nuance or edge case. If the entity dissolved on or before December 31, you still owe the fee for the year ending on that December 31. Dissolution does not waive the prior year’s annual registration. The fee is forgiven only for the year after dissolution is properly recorded with Certificate of Dissolution DSCB:15-8872/8975.
A common mistake on this field and its direct consequence. Filers use the prior year’s per-member fee. The check comes up short and the Bureau treats the entire filing as defective, charging interest from April 15.
A misconception people hold about this field. Filers think the fee is prorated for partial-year members. It is not. A member who joined on December 30 counts the same as one who joined on January 1.
Signature Block: Certification and Authorized Signature
What the field asks in plain English. The signature block has the signer swear, under penalty of perjury, that the statements in the form are true and that the entity remains a restricted professional company.
How to answer it. Print the signer’s full name, title (member, manager, or partner), date of signature in MM/DD/YYYY format, and apply a wet-ink signature on paper or a typed e-signature in the One-Stop portal.
A specific example answer. Aisha Patel, Managing Member, 03/14/2026, signs above the line.
A nuance or edge case. A power of attorney can sign only if the POA document is on file with the entity and the title is shown as Attorney-in-Fact for [Member Name]. The Bureau may request the POA on audit.
A common mistake on this field and its direct consequence. A non-member office manager signs without authority. That voids the certification and the filing is rejected, with the entity treated as not having filed at all.
A misconception people hold about this field. Filers think a notary is required. It is not. The certification is under penalty of 18 Pa.C.S. § 4904, which substitutes for notarization on Pennsylvania business filings.
Three Filled-Out Examples Using Real Scenarios
Below are three named filers walking through the form end-to-end. Each table mirrors the order of fields on the 7/2022 revision.
Scenario 1: Marcus Chen, Solo Attorney PLLC
Marcus is a solo attorney whose firm, Chen Law, P.L.L.C., has been registered in Pennsylvania since 2021 and has only him as a member.
| Form Section | What Marcus Enters |
|---|---|
| Entity Number | 6543210 |
| Field 1 — Name | CHEN LAW, P.L.L.C. |
| Field 2 — Principal Office | 1500 Market Street, Suite 1200, Philadelphia, PA 19102 |
| Field 3 — Registered Office | c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., Dauphin County |
| Field 4 — Services | Law |
| Field 5 — Members on 12/31 | 1 |
| Field 6 — Fee | $610.00 |
| Signature Block | Marcus Chen, Sole Member, 03/05/2026 |
Scenario 2: Aisha Patel, MD, Three-Physician Medical PLLC
Aisha runs Walnut Street Internal Medicine, P.L.L.C., a three-physician medical practice in Philadelphia. One of the three members joined on June 1 of last year, but all three were members on December 31.
| Form Section | What Aisha Enters |
|---|---|
| Entity Number | 7102938 |
| Field 1 — Name | WALNUT STREET INTERNAL MEDICINE, P.L.L.C. |
| Field 2 — Principal Office | 125 Walnut Street, Suite 400, Philadelphia, PA 19107 |
| Field 3 — Registered Office | 125 Walnut Street, Suite 400, Philadelphia, PA 19107 |
| Field 4 — Services | Medicine and Surgery |
| Field 5 — Members on 12/31 | 3 |
| Field 6 — Fee | $1,830.00 |
| Signature Block | Aisha Patel, Managing Member, 03/14/2026 |
Scenario 3: Janet Rivera, DC, Foreign Chiropractic PLLC
Janet’s Rivera Chiropractic Care, PLLC is a New Jersey PLLC registered as a foreign restricted professional company in Pennsylvania, with two chiropractor members on December 31.
| Form Section | What Janet Enters |
|---|---|
| Entity Number | 8221547 |
| Field 1 — Name | RIVERA CHIROPRACTIC CARE, PLLC |
| Field 2 — Principal Office | 88 Main Avenue, Cherry Hill, NJ 08002 |
| Field 3 — Registered Office (PA) | c/o CT Corporation System, Dauphin County |
| Field 4 — Services | Chiropractic |
| Field 5 — Members on 12/31 | 2 |
| Field 6 — Fee | $1,220.00 |
| Signature Block | Janet Rivera, DC, Managing Partner, 04/02/2026 |
How to File the Completed Form
You have three filing channels. Pick one based on speed, comfort, and whether you have a portal account already set up.
Online through PA Business One-Stop Shop. Log in at file.dos.pa.gov and select Annual Registration under the entity’s dashboard. Pay by credit/debit card (2.9% processing fee) or ACH ($3 flat fee). Processing time is immediate to 3 business days. Save the PDF confirmation receipt that the portal emails you within minutes — that PDF is your proof of filing.
By mail. Mail the signed PDF and a check or money order payable to Department of State to: Pennsylvania Department of State, Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations, P.O. Box 8722, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8722. Processing time is 4 to 6 weeks. Keep your USPS Certified Mail receipt and the canceled check as proof of filing.
In person. Drop off the signed form and payment at 401 North Street, Room 206, Harrisburg, PA 17120, Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–4:45 p.m. In-person filings are time-stamped on the spot and processed within 1 week. Ask the counter clerk for a stamped copy as proof of filing.
The deadline for all three channels is April 15 of each year. Postmark counts for mail, portal time stamp counts for online, and counter stamp counts for in-person. After April 15, interest accrues at 6% per year and a $500 penalty is added.
If you discover an error after filing, file a Statement of Correction DSCB:15-138 within 30 days and reference the original DSCB:15-8825 by entity number and filing date. The correction fee is currently $70.
What Happens After You File
The Bureau processes the filing and updates the entity’s record in the public business database. You can verify your status on PA Business Entity Search within 1–3 business days for online filings and 4–6 weeks for paper filings. The status flips from pending annual to active once the fee is processed and the certification is accepted.
You will not receive a paper certificate confirming the filing. The portal confirmation email or the canceled check is your only receipt. Keep that receipt for at least 7 years, because the Bureau may audit prior-year filings during a name-change or dissolution review.
If the Bureau finds a defect — wrong entity number, missing signature, short fee — it mails a defective filing notice to the registered office within 30–45 days. You then have 30 days from the notice to cure the defect without losing the original filing date. Missing the cure window restarts the clock and triggers late-filing interest from April 15.
After 2 consecutive years of non-filing, the Bureau begins administrative termination proceedings under 15 Pa.C.S. § 134. Reinstatement requires filing all back-due DSCB:15-8825s, paying all fees plus interest and penalties, and submitting a Reinstatement Application DSCB:15-1979 at $70 per entity.
Mistakes to Avoid When Filling Out the Form
The Bureau publishes its top rejection reasons each year in its annual report. Avoid these and your filing should sail through.
- Wrong entity number. Filing comes back as no matching entity and the fee gets refunded weeks later, often past April 15.
- Wrong member count. Either overpays the fee with no easy refund or underpays and triggers a defective-fee notice.
- Using the prior year’s per-member fee. The fee schedule changes; an undersized check kills the filing.
- P.O. Box in Field 2 or Field 3. Both fields require physical addresses, and the form rejects automatically.
- Dropping the entity designator. Writing Chen Law instead of Chen Law, P.L.L.C. fails the name-match check.
- Signer with no authority. Office managers and bookkeepers cannot sign; the certification is voided.
- Wrong payee on the check. The check must read Department of State, not Bureau of Corporations or Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
- Two-sided printing on paper filings. The Bureau’s optical scanner misreads the back side and rejects.
- Missing the April 15 deadline. $500 penalty plus 6% per year interest plus risk of administrative termination.
- Listing services not in the Certificate of Organization. Creates a false certification and exposes the signer to 18 Pa.C.S. § 4904 penalties.
- Counting employees as members. Inflates the fee and creates a record discrepancy on audit.
- Using an outdated form revision. Pre-7/2022 revisions get rejected because the certification language has changed.
- Forgetting to update the registered office. A bad registered office means missed lawsuits and default judgments against the entity.
Do’s and Don’ts
Do file early — by April 1 — so any defect notice still leaves you time to cure before the deadline. Do use the One-Stop portal whenever possible, because it auto-populates fields and validates your fee in real time. Do verify the per-member fee against the Bureau’s fee schedule the day you file, because fees can update mid-cycle. Do save the portal confirmation PDF and the canceled check for 7 years. Do reconcile your December 31 member count with your operating agreement’s member ledger before filling Field 5. Do confirm your registered office is still active and willing to accept service for the new year.
Don’t wait until April 14 — the portal and the mailroom both jam in the final 48 hours. Don’t rely on prior-year data for member count or services; verify each year. Don’t sign on behalf of a member without written authority. Don’t combine multiple entities’ fees on one check; one check per entity, every time. Don’t mail the form without certified mail tracking. Don’t assume the Bureau will email you a reminder — Pennsylvania does not send renewal notices for DSCB:15-8825.
Pros and Cons of Filing on Your Own vs. With Help
| Filing Pro Se | Hiring a Registered Agent or Attorney |
|---|---|
| Saves the $50–$200 service fee per entity | Avoids missed deadlines through auto-reminder systems |
| Forces you to know your own member ledger and fee math | Handles multi-state filings together for foreign entities |
| Direct portal access means immediate confirmations | Catches name-mismatch and CROP errors before submission |
| No third party in the loop on entity data | Provides a registered office address if you do not have one |
| Full control over timing and signature | Manages corrections and defect cures professionally |
Pros of filing pro se include cost savings, deeper familiarity with your entity’s records, real-time portal access, and full control over signature and timing. Cons include personal time spent, risk of missing the per-member fee update, exposure to perjury risk if you mis-certify, lack of a backup reminder system, and no professional review of the certification language.
Pros of professional help include built-in deadline reminders, multi-state coordination, error-spotting on names and CROPs, professional cure-letter handling, and a registered office service if needed. Cons include the annual service fee, less direct knowledge of your own records, dependency on a third party for confirmations, possible delays if the agent misses the deadline, and additional contracts to manage.
Form DSCB:15-8825 vs. Other Pennsylvania Filings
| Form DSCB:15-8825 | Other Common Filings |
|---|---|
| Annual Certificate of Annual Registration for restricted professional companies | Decennial Report — every 10 years for non-restricted entities |
| Filed every April 15 | DSCB:15-134A Docketing Statement — once at formation |
| Fee = members × per-member rate | DSCB:15-8832 Statement of Registration — initial LLP registration only |
| Required only for restricted professional services | DSCB:15-8872 Certificate of Dissolution — wind-up filing |
FAQs
Is Form DSCB:15-8825 the same as a tax return?
No. It is a corporate-existence filing with the Department of State. It does not replace or relate to your federal Form 1065, Pennsylvania RCT-101, or PA-65 partnership return.
Do I file DSCB:15-8825 if my LLC is not a professional entity?
No. Only restricted professional companies under 15 Pa.C.S. § 8997 file. Standard LLCs file the Decennial Report every 10 years instead.
Can I file DSCB:15-8825 after April 15?
Yes. You can still file, but the Bureau adds a $500 penalty and 6% annual interest, and after two consecutive missed years the entity faces administrative termination.
Do I count the number of members on filing day in Field 5?
No. Field 5 asks for the number of members on December 31 of the prior year, regardless of who joined or left between January 1 and your filing date.
Should I write PLLC or P.L.L.C. in Field 1?
Yes, use whichever designator appears on your stamped Certificate of Organization. Mismatching periods or capitalization causes the Bureau’s name-match check to reject the filing.
Can my registered office in Field 3 be a P.O. Box?
No. Pennsylvania requires a physical street address or a commercial registered office provider; P.O. Boxes are rejected under 15 Pa.C.S. § 109.
Is the per-member fee really $610?
Yes, as of the 2026 filing cycle, but the Bureau adjusts the figure annually for inflation, so confirm on the Bureau’s fee schedule before writing your check.
Do I need to notarize my signature?
No. The certification is sworn under penalty of 18 Pa.C.S. § 4904, which substitutes for notarization on Pennsylvania business filings.
Can a non-member office manager sign Field for the signature block?
No. Only members, managers, or partners with express authority to bind the entity may sign; a non-member signature voids the certification and the filing is rejected.
What if I checked the wrong restricted service in Field 4?
Yes, file a Statement of Correction DSCB:15-138 within 30 days of the original filing and pay the $70 correction fee to fix the entry.
Do foreign restricted professional companies file DSCB:15-8825?
Yes. Any foreign LLC or LLP registered as a restricted professional company in Pennsylvania files the same form by the same April 15 deadline.
Does dissolution mid-year waive the annual fee?
No. You still owe the fee for the year ending on the prior December 31. Only the year after dissolution is recorded gets waived.
Can I file DSCB:15-8825 for multiple entities on one check?
No. Each entity needs its own check or its own portal payment, because the Bureau matches every payment to a single entity number.
Will the Department of State remind me to file?
No. Pennsylvania does not mail renewal reminders for DSCB:15-8825. Calendar the April 15 deadline yourself or use a registered agent service that sends reminders.
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