Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: Alaska permits it, in both directions, under AS 10.55.501(a): a domestic entity may become a domestic entity of the same type in a foreign jurisdiction if the domestication is authorized by the law of the foreign jurisdiction, an explicit reciprocity condition running against the destination state’s law. Alaska is one of the more literal states here: its own code uses the word ‘domestication’ as a defined statutory term (Article 5 of the Alaska Entity Transactions Act). The baseline entity-law filing fee for an Alaska LLC leaving and not continuing business in Alaska is $25; it rises to $175 if the LLC keeps a registered presence in Alaska afterward. This page covers the entity-law half only.
What Alaska’s statute actually says
AS 10.55.501(a) states the rule directly: ‘a domestic entity may become a domestic entity of the same type in a foreign jurisdiction if the domestication is authorized by the law of the foreign jurisdiction.’ That reciprocity clause means an Alaska LLC’s ability to leave depends on the destination state’s own law recognizing the transaction as a domestication, not just on Alaska’s permission. Alaska’s code (AS 10.55.401-.406) also has a separate ‘conversion’ article covering entity-type-plus-jurisdiction changes (for example, an out-of-state corporation becoming an Alaska LLC), but that is a different, broader mechanism from the same-type domestication article this page is about.
What the filing costs
Alaska’s baseline outbound filing is a Statement of Domestication under form 08-601, used when the departing Alaska LLC will not continue doing business in Alaska after the move: the form’s own instructions state a flat $25.00 non-refundable filing fee, filed with the Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing. If the LLC intends to keep doing business in Alaska after domesticating out (registering back in as a qualified foreign LLC), the correct form is 08-0597 instead, which prices the filing at $175.00 total ($25.00 Statement of Domestication plus $150.00 Registration of Foreign LLC, both non-refundable). Both figures were confirmed by directly reading the official PDFs from commerce.alaska.gov this session, not a secondary source.
That is the entity-law filing fee only. It is not the cost of leaving, and anyone who tells you the cost of leaving Alaska is a filing fee is selling something.
The part this page does not answer
The reason people search for this is usually not the filing. It is the tax exposure: what Alaska’s own revenue agency does when you leave, whether a final return is due, and whether the state agrees the entity has actually stopped doing business there. Those questions are governed by Alaska tax law and administrative practice, not by the entity-law citation above, and this cluster does not source them. We have the entity-law answer at primary and the tax answer not at all.
Two things worth knowing even so, both the general shape rather than a state-specific finding: changing the entity’s state of organization does not by itself end an obligation to register as a foreign LLC anywhere you still do business, and a state’s revenue department is a separate counterparty from its filing office. If you are moving to cut a tax bill, the entity move is the easy half.
This page sells nothing and links to no filing service. Moving an LLC is a filing-desk task with a statutory answer, and the answer is either in your two states’ codes or it is not.
Check both ends of the move, not just the destination
A move needs two things to be true: your destination has to let the entity in, and your current state has to let it out. Nine states have no statutory route out, so an LLC formed in one of them cannot domesticate anywhere, however welcoming the destination is. That is where most published advice goes wrong; it checks one end.
| State you would be leaving | Why there is no route out | What the code offers instead |
|---|---|---|
| Delaware | the statute affirmatively limits it | 6 Del. C. § 18-209 |
| Kentucky | nothing in the code permits it | KRS 275.345 to 275.365 |
| Massachusetts | the statute affirmatively limits it | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 156C, § 59(b) |
| Missouri | nothing in the code permits it | Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 347.127 to 347.135 |
| New Mexico | nothing in the code permits it | NMSA 1978 § 53-19-62 |
| New York | nothing in the code permits it | NY LLC Law § 1001(b), certificate of merger under § 1003 |
| South Carolina | the statute affirmatively limits it | S.C. Code Ann. § 33-44-904 |
| Washington | the statute affirmatively limits it | RCW 25.15.416 to 25.15.431 |
| West Virginia | nothing in the code permits it | W. Va. Code § 31B-9-904, articles of merger under § 31B-9-905 |
Delaware is the surprise on that list and it is not a mistake; see the move-to-another-state guide, which covers Delaware’s route directly. For the other eight, the substitute is a merger, not a dissolution: form the new entity in the destination state and merge the old one into it. Merger produces a surviving entity rather than a continuation, so it is genuinely not the same thing as domestication, but it keeps far more alive than dissolving does.
The full 51-jurisdiction table is on the domestication states list; the three routes are compared on how to move an LLC to another state.
Sources
Every row on this page is statutory text. 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.
- Alaska: https://codes.findlaw.com/ak/title-10-corporations-and-associations/ak-st-sect-10-55-501/. Statutory text, Statute independently re-verified 2026-09-03 against codes.findlaw.com; fee figures independently re-verified 2026-09-03 via direct PDF read of the official commerce.alaska.gov forms 08-601 and 08-0597.