Updated August 12, 2026. Quick answer. To dissolve an LLC in Florida you file the Articles of Dissolution for a Limited Liability Company (Sunbiz e-file, and it can be filed online or on paper. Fee: $25.00. Florida requires no tax-clearance certificate to accept the filing. Until that filing is accepted the LLC still legally exists — and whatever Florida charges an LLC each year keeps accruing against it.
What you file in Florida, and what it costs
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Filing | Articles of Dissolution for a Limited Liability Company (Sunbiz e-file, or paper form CR2E048), filed with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations |
| Fee | $25.00 |
| How you can file | both — Online e-filing (credit/debit or prepaid Sunbiz account) or by mail with printed form and check/money order. |
| Tax clearance | not required |
| Statute | Fla. Stat. 605.0707 (articles of dissolution); 605.0714 (administrative dissolution) |
Single-step filing; no notice-of-intent or separate termination filing for an LLC. E-file at efile.sunbiz.org (E-File LLC Articles of Dissolution) or print the PDF (form.sunbiz.org/pdf/cr2e048.pdf) and mail with check/money order. Division states ‘Allow 2-3 business days for your dissolution to post on Sunbiz.’
On the fee. $25.00 filing fee (same online or paper). Optional: Certificate of Status $5.00, Certified Copy $30.00. From the Division of Corporations e-file dissolution instructions.
Tax clearance in Florida
No tax-clearance certificate is required to file in Florida. That is not the same as owing nothing — it means the state will accept the filing without a revenue-agency sign-off first.
Negative verified from the Division of Corporations’ own dissolution instructions (dos.fl.gov/sunbiz/manage-business/dissolve-withdraw-business/efile-llc-dissolution/), which contain no tax-clearance prerequisite; Florida law imposes no Department of Revenue clearance before filing LLC articles of dissolution. Fla. Stat. 605.0707 conditions filing only on the articles’ content and fees.
Do not just walk away
Closing the business is not closing the entity. $400 late fee on the annual report after May 1; administrative dissolution on the fourth Friday of September if the report is not filed by the third Friday of September
Annual report ($138.75) due by May 1 each year; ‘a $400 late fee’ applies after 11:59 PM EST May 1 (Sunbiz annual report instructions). Fla. Stat. 605.0714(1): the department may dissolve an LLC that fails to ‘deliver its annual report… by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the third Friday in September,’ and ‘Administrative dissolution… for failure to file an annual report must occur on the fourth Friday in September of each year.’ Reinstatement requires the reinstatement fee plus all past-due annual report fees. Florida’s official sources state no personal liability arising merely from administrative dissolution.
Closing the tax accounts
Notify FL Dept. of Revenue of closure and file a final return for each registered tax type within 15 days
Per floridarevenue.com: if you close your business you must notify the Department (quickest via floridarevenue.com/taxes/updateaccount), ‘file a final return and pay all applicable taxes due within 15 days after closing,’ for each tax type (e.g., sales and use, reemployment tax), otherwise the Department mails a Notice of Delinquency. Florida has no state personal income tax; default pass-through LLCs file no FL corporate income return.
Before you file
- The order the steps go in — internal decision, creditors and distributions, the state filing, the final returns, then the registrations you are still paying for.
- What an LLC costs to keep alive in Florida — the bill that keeps running until this filing lands.
- What dissolution costs in all 51 jurisdictions — the fee, the filing route and the tax-clearance flag, side by side.
- What happens if you simply stop filing — administrative dissolution is the walk-away trap happening to you rather than by you.
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Sources and limits
Fla. Stat. 605.0707 (articles of dissolution); 605.0714 (administrative dissolution). Fee, form and procedure read 2026-08-10 from the official source.
Research note. Statute text from http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0600-0699/0605/Sections/0605.0707.html and …/0605.0714.html; annual-report consequences from https://dos.fl.gov/sunbiz/manage-business/efile/annual-report/; DOR wind-down from floridarevenue.com.
Honest gap. This page covers the state filing that ends the entity, its fee and its tax-clearance condition. It does not cover creditor claims against a dissolved LLC, disputes between members, the tax treatment of a final distribution, reinstatement after an administrative dissolution, or withdrawal from any other state you registered in — each of those has its own rules. General information, not legal or tax advice. See methodology and corrections.
If Florida dissolved the LLC for missed filings, that is not a voluntary closing. Follow the Florida LLC reinstatement path before using the dissolution steps above.