Updated August 12, 2026. Quick answer. To dissolve an LLC in Oklahoma you file the Articles of Dissolution (Oklahoma Limited Liability Company), and it can be filed online or on paper. Fee: $50. Oklahoma requires no tax-clearance certificate to accept the filing. Until that filing is accepted the LLC still legally exists — and whatever Oklahoma charges an LLC each year keeps accruing against it.
What you file in Oklahoma, and what it costs
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Filing | Articles of Dissolution (Oklahoma Limited Liability Company), SOS Form 0080 |
| Fee | $50 |
| How you can file | both — Paper: mail or in person to Oklahoma Secretary of State, 421 N.W. 13th, Suite 210, Oklahoma City, OK 73103 (address on Form 0080). Online: the SOS entity-filing portal (sos.ok.gov/corp/filing.aspx) offers electronic filing for LLC filings including amendments; secondary sources describe selecting ‘Articles of Dissolution’ in the online system, but the SOS page itself could not be loaded far enough to show dissolution by name — treat ‘online available’ as high-confidence but portal-confirmed only indirectly. |
| Tax clearance | not required |
| Statute | 18 O.S. §§ 2037 (dissolution events), 2041 (articles of dissolution); 18 O.S. § 2055.2 and § 2012.1 (annual certificate / cancellation) |
Single-step filing with the Oklahoma Secretary of State pursuant to 18 O.S. § 2041 (‘After the dissolution of the limited liability company, pursuant to Section 2037… the limited liability company shall file articles of dissolution in the Office of the Secretary of State upon payment of the filing fee’). Form verified from the SOS’s own PDF (sos.ok.gov/forms/fm0080.pdf): must state LLC name, date articles of organization filed, reason for dissolution, optional future effective date; ‘The articles of dissolution must be signed by a manager of the limited liability company.’
On the fee. Fee printed on the official form: ‘Filing Fee: $50.00’ (SOS Form 0080). Same fee online or paper. Optional one-day expedited service is an additional $25 (secondary-reported; not on the form itself).
If you would rather have it filed for you
Bizee will prepare and file the dissolution paperwork described above in Oklahoma on your behalf. The state filing fee is separate and you pay it either way. Filing it yourself, by the official route above, stays the cheapest way to close an LLC.
Bizee’s BBB rating, verified directly against BBB’s own listing on September 3, 2026: a C, not accredited, with 83 complaints filed and BBB’s own finding that the business “has failed to resolve underlying cause(s) of a pattern of complaints.” Check BBB’s current listing yourself before you buy. A rating we did not just verify is worse than none.
Bizee does not publish a price for this filing on the page this link opens, so you will have to ask for one. We earn a commission if you buy through this link, between $20 and $175 depending on which service you buy, disclosed here rather than left vague. It does not change the price you pay. We are not a law firm and this is not legal advice. Affiliate Disclosure.
See Bizee’s dissolution service
Opens on Bizee’s site in a new tab.
Tax clearance in Oklahoma
No tax-clearance certificate is required to file in Oklahoma. That is not the same as owing nothing — it means the state will accept the filing without a revenue-agency sign-off first.
Neither SOS Form 0080 nor 18 O.S. § 2041 requires any tax clearance certificate to accompany the articles of dissolution — the statute conditions filing only on ‘payment of the filing fee required by Section 2055.’ Negative verified from the SOS’s own form (no clearance attachment listed) and the official oklahoma.gov entity-changes page (no tax-clearance mention). Final returns are still owed to the Oklahoma Tax Commission separately.
Do not just walk away
Closing the business is not closing the entity. Ceases to be in good standing 60 days after the annual certificate is due; articles of organization deemed cancelled after 3 years of non-filing
18 O.S. § 2055.2: an LLC ‘that fails to file the annual certificate and pay the annual certificate fee [$25/yr] within sixty (60) days after the date due shall cease to be in good standing’; while not in good standing it cannot maintain suit in Oklahoma courts on claims arising from business transacted after loss of good standing, and the SOS will not accept filings or issue good-standing certificates until reinstatement. 18 O.S. § 2012.1: ‘The articles of organization… shall be deemed to be canceled if the domestic limited liability company fails to file the annual certificate and pay the annual fee…
Closing the tax accounts
File final returns marked ‘Final Return’ and close OTC accounts (sales tax permit surrender; withholding account closure), preferably via OkTAP
Okla. Admin. Code 710:90-3-19: employers who discontinue business ‘must file their return as a final return’ with a statement of last wage date and records custodian; sales-tax vendors ceasing business must indicate final report and surrender the sales tax permit for cancellation (OAC 710:65-3-9). OTC help center (oklahoma.gov/tax/helpcenter/businesses.html) directs account closure through OkTAP.
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 Oklahoma — 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.
We do not form or dissolve LLCs and we do not sell filing services. The only ask on this page is a sponsored link, marked as one, and we may be paid if you use it. Nothing above changes based on that.
Sources and limits
18 O.S. §§ 2037 (dissolution events), 2041 (articles of dissolution); 18 O.S. § 2055.2 and § 2012.1 (annual certificate / cancellation). Fee, form and procedure read 2026-08-10 from the official source.
Research note. Access failures logged: law.justia.com returned 403 for both OK statutes; sos.ok.gov/business/filing.aspx returned an error page; statute text taken from ok.elaws.us mirror and corroborated by the citation printed on the official SOS form.
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 the company simply lost good standing, you may not need to dissolve at all. Oklahoma lets you file the delinquent annual certificates and be reinstated as though you never lapsed — but if your name was taken meanwhile, reinstatement renames you. The statute is quoted on reinstating an Oklahoma LLC.
Not ready to dissolve? If the LLC still has work to do, just under a different state’s law, see moving an LLC out of Oklahoma instead of closing it.
Closing a for-profit corporation, not an LLC? See dissolving a corporation in Oklahoma for the statute-specific filing, tax-clearance rule and fee.
Closing this LLC instead of moving it? If you are deciding between the two, see moving an LLC to Oklahoma for the same-entity alternative to dissolving.
Related: Oklahoma’s registered agent requirements, including who can serve and what happens if you don’t have one.
Related: Oklahoma’s LLC Certificate of Good Standing cost, including who issues it and how fast you can get one.
See LLC Cost by State: The Five-Year Number, Not the Filing Fee for more on this.