Updated August 12, 2026. Quick answer. To dissolve an LLC in Georgia you file the Certificate of Termination, and it can be filed online or on paper. Fee: $0 online; $10 paper service charge. Georgia requires no tax-clearance certificate to accept the filing. Until that filing is accepted the LLC still legally exists — and whatever Georgia charges an LLC each year keeps accruing against it.
What you file in Georgia, and what it costs
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Filing | Certificate of Termination, Form CD 415, filed with the Georgia Secretary of State, Corporations Division |
| Fee | $0 online; $10 paper service charge |
| How you can file | both — Online via Georgia eCorp (ecorp.sos.ga.gov) or paper by mail/hand delivery (+$10 service charge), per SOS FAQ and fee schedule. |
| Tax clearance | not required |
| Statute | O.C.G.A. 14-11-610 (certificate of termination); 14-11-603 (judicial and administrative dissolution) |
Single filing for a domestic LLC (the notice-of-intent-to-dissolve step applies to corporations under O.C.G.A. 14-2-1402, not LLCs). Official template: ‘Filing Template – Certificate of Termination (CD 415)’ on sos.ga.gov; SOS notes you may draft your own document instead of using the template. File online at ecorp.sos.ga.gov or by mail to Corporations Division, 2 MLK Jr. Drive, Suite 313, Floyd West Tower, Atlanta, GA 30334-1530. Per SOS Business FAQ, the entity ‘must be current on all annual registrations due’ before filing a certificate of termination; an administratively dissolved LLC must reinstate before it can voluntarily terminate.
On the fee. Corporations Division Filing Fees schedule effective September 6, 2025 (official PDF, Rev. 8/2025): ‘Certificate of Termination (LLC): No Fee’ online ($0); paper filing +$10.00 service charge = $10.00. SOS FAQ confirms ‘There is an additional $10 service charge if filing in paper format.’
Tax clearance in Georgia
No tax-clearance certificate is required to file in Georgia. 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 SOS’s own filing template listing, fee schedule, and Business Division FAQ, none of which impose a Department of Revenue clearance before filing a certificate of termination. The only SOS precondition stated is being current on annual registrations. O.C.G.A. 14-11-610 conditions the filing only on truthful statements that debts are paid/provided for and no actions are pending.
Do not just walk away
Closing the business is not closing the entity. Administrative dissolution when the annual registration ($50/yr) is more than 60 days overdue; entity may then only wind up; name protected 5 years
O.C.G.A. 14-11-603: the Secretary of State may administratively dissolve an LLC that ‘does not deliver its annual registration… within 60 days after it is due,’ or that lacks a registered agent/office for 60+ days. SOS FAQ: an administratively dissolved entity ‘continues its corporate existence but may not carry on any business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate.’ The name of an administratively dissolved entity is reserved for it for 5 years (SOS FAQ; O.C.G.A. 14-2-1422 by analogy for LLCs via 14-11-603). Reinstatement (with fees) is required before any voluntary termination.
Closing the tax accounts
File a final Georgia return; close Sales & Use, withholding and other DOR accounts via Georgia Tax Center
GA DOR ‘Close a Business in Georgia’ (dor.georgia.gov/how-do-i-close-business-georgia): file a final state tax return for the business type; request account closure by phone, through Georgia Tax Center (GTC), or by signed letter on company letterhead with effective date to [email protected].
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 Georgia — 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
O.C.G.A. 14-11-610 (certificate of termination); 14-11-603 (judicial and administrative dissolution). Fee, form and procedure read 2026-08-10 from the official source.
Research note. sos.ga.gov serves a Cloudflare challenge to automated fetchers (WebFetch/curl 403); all sos.ga.gov content here was read through a live browser session, and the official fee-schedule PDF (https://sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/Reference%20-%20Filing%20Fees_0.pdf, effective 2025-09-06) was downloaded in-session and text-extracted. Statute text relied on law.justia.com mirror (flagged per contract).
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.