Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: an Ohio for-profit corporation dissolves by filing Certificate of Dissolution under Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.86 for $50, but Ohio will not accept it without a tax clearance certificate in hand first.
The filing, and what Ohio calls it
Ohio’s Certificate of Dissolution is filed with the Secretary of State under ORC § 1701.86, and creditor notice is separately mandatory under § 1701.87.
The tax clearance question
Ohio will not accept the Certificate of Dissolution without a tax clearance in hand. The certificate itself must include a certificate or other evidence from the Department of Taxation showing the corporation has paid all taxes it administers, plus evidence of personal property tax payment, or, as an alternative, a statement of the date the relevant department was notified in writing of the scheduled dissolution date. (Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.86)
Creditors and the claims window
Ohio requires a formal notice-to-known-and-unknown-creditors procedure, with a 60-day claims-bar window. Notice to creditors is mandatory (‘A corporation shall give notice’), with a shorter claims-bar deadline than most states: not less than 60 days after the notice is given. (Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.87(B)(3))
What the filing costs
The Certificate of Dissolution carries a $50 filing fee. Set by statute: Ohio Rev. Code § 111.16(N)(1) charges fifty dollars for filing and recording a certificate of dissolution under § 1701.86.
What this page does not answer
Dissolving the entity at the state level and closing it out with the IRS are two separate processes. A final federal return, IRS Form 966 in some circumstances, and canceling the EIN are governed by federal law, not by Ohio’s corporation statute, and this cluster does not source them. We have the state-filing answer at primary and the federal-closeout answer not at all.
This page sells nothing and links to no filing service. Dissolving a corporation is a filing-desk task with a statutory answer, and the answer is either in the state’s code and the Secretary of State’s own instructions or it is not.
This page covers a for-profit business corporation. If you are closing an LLC in Ohio instead, the filing, fee and statute are different: see dissolving an LLC in Ohio.
Sources
Every citation on this page is statutory or the Secretary of State’s own official filing instructions. No formation service, no registered-agent marketing page and no aggregator is cited anywhere in this cluster; those are the only publishers of the competing versions.
- Ohio Revised Code § 1701.86: https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-1701.86
- Ohio Revised Code § 1701.87: https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-1701.87
- Ohio Rev. Code § 111.16 (Secretary of State filing fees): https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-111.16