Updated August 12, 2026. Quick answer. To dissolve an LLC in Hawaii you file the Articles of Termination, and it can be filed online or on paper. Fee: $25.00 (plus optional $25.00 expedited review). Hawaii requires no tax-clearance certificate to accept the filing. Until that filing is accepted the LLC still legally exists — and whatever Hawaii charges an LLC each year keeps accruing against it.
What you file in Hawaii, and what it costs
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Filing | Articles of Termination, Form LLC-11, filed with the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA), Business Registration Division (BREG) |
| Fee | $25.00 (plus optional $25.00 expedited review) |
| How you can file | both — Online via Hawaii Business Express (per BREG’s online-filing list) and by paper (mail, email, fax, or service window), per BREG instructions. |
| Tax clearance | not required |
| Statute | HRS 428-805 (articles of termination); 428-809 and 428-810 (administrative termination); 428-811 (reinstatement); 428-1302 (penalty) |
Single filing made ‘after dissolution and winding up’ per HRS 428-805: all debts paid/discharged or adequately provided for and remaining assets distributed to members before filing. Filed online (LLC-11 is on BREG’s ‘What BREG forms can I file online?’ list, via Hawaii Business Express), or by mail (P.O. Box 40, Honolulu, HI 96810), email ([email protected]), fax (808-586-2733), or in person at 335 Merchant St., Honolulu.
On the fee. BREG ‘Fees / Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, Chapter 428’ page: Articles of Termination filing fee $25.00; expedited review +$25.00. Fees are nonrefundable; $25 dishonored-check fee. (BREG registration filings also carry a $1.00 State Archives fee.)
Tax clearance in Hawaii
No tax-clearance certificate is required to file in Hawaii. 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 BREG’s own LLC forms/fees pages and the LLC-Info sheet, which impose no Department of Taxation clearance prerequisite for filing LLC-11; HRS 428-805 conditions termination only on the truthful statements in the articles. (Hawaii DOTAX license cancellation is a separate, non-prerequisite step — see final_tax_steps.)
Do not just walk away
Closing the business is not closing the entity. Late annual-report penalty up to $100 per 30-day period; administrative termination after annual reports are unfiled for 2 years
Official BREG LLC-Info sheet quoting the statutes: annual report ($15) due per HRS 428-210 quarter-based schedule; ‘Section 428-1302 provides that failure to file the annual report within the prescribed time shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding $100.00 for each thirty-day period that the delinquency continues’; ‘Section 428-809 provides that the director may terminate a domestic limited liability company administratively if the company has not… filed its annual report for a period of two years.’ Procedure/effect: HRS 428-810; reinstatement available ‘within two years after the effective date’ of termination (HRS 428-811).
Closing the tax accounts
Cancel GE (general excise) and other tax licenses via Hawaii Tax Online or Form GEW-TA-RV-1; file final periodic and annual (G-49) GE returns
tax.hawaii.gov Licensing Information: to cancel a GE license, ‘sign into Hawaii Tax Online or submit a Form GEW-TA-RV-1’ (Notification of Cancellation of Tax Licenses and Tax Permits); file final returns for each license type, including the annual G-49 reconciliation.
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 Hawaii — 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
HRS 428-805 (articles of termination); 428-809 and 428-810 (administrative termination); 428-811 (reinstatement); 428-1302 (penalty). Fee, form and procedure read 2026-08-10 from the official source.
Research note. cca.hawaii.gov and capitol.hawaii.gov return 403 to automated fetchers; cca.hawaii.gov pages (fees, forms list, online-filing list, dllc instructions) were read via a live browser session, and the official LLC-Info PDF was fetched from files.hawaii.gov and text-extracted. Form LLC-11 PDF itself (1.3MB at https://cca.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/form_llc-11.pdf) could not be text-extracted in-session; fee and filing facts come from BREG’s fee/instruction pages instead.
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.