Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: a dissolved Tennessee corporation reinstates by filing Application for Reinstatement Following Administrative Dissolution/Revocation (Form SS-9410) under Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-24-203 (Tennessee Business Corporation Act) for $70, though the state’s own materials do not clearly state a deadline.
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The filing, and what Tennessee calls it
A for-profit corporation administratively dissolved by the TN Secretary of State, Business Services Division, files Form SS-9410 (e-file at tnbear.tn.gov or by mail), reciting the corporate name at dissolution, confirming the dissolution grounds no longer exist, and stating a compliant corporate name (changing it if necessary). Before the Division will accept the filing, it obtains tax-clearance verification from the TN Department of Revenue; the application must be submitted together with all past-due annual reports and their filing fees.
How long you have to reinstate
Tennessee’s own materials did not give a clear, single answer on a reinstatement deadline this session; No numeric time limit appears in the statute text or the official SOS form/instructions reviewed this session (unlike WA’s 5-year / AZ’s 6-year hard cutoffs). Tennessee has no free official state-government-hosted code database (TCA is published under contract with LexisNexis), so the statute citation rests on a compiled mirror (Justia), not a .gov primary source; flagged as a sourcing gap.. (Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-24-203 (via Justia mirror; no free .gov TCA host exists))
What you must pay before it goes through
Tennessee will not reinstate the corporation until every year it sat delinquent is paid for. Tax clearance verification from the TN Department of Revenue is required before the Division will accept the filing (rejected if clearance can’t be obtained). All past-due Annual Reports and their filing fees must be submitted together with the application. (Official SS-9410 form/instructions)
Whether your name is still yours
Your original name is not guaranteed to still be yours. The application has a dedicated field for filing under a new name if the original is no longer available/compliant; any new name must satisfy the statutory name requirements for that entity type. Check Tennessee’s business-name database before assuming the reinstatement filing will go through under the old name. (SS-9410 form, item 3)
What the filing costs
Tennessee’s Application for Reinstatement Following Administrative Dissolution/Revocation (Form SS-9410) carries a $70 filing fee. $70 flat reinstatement fee confirmed on the official SS-9410 form. Missed Annual Reports each carry their own separate filing fee; a commonly cited $20/report figure could not be independently confirmed against a primary source this session.
What this page does not answer
Reinstating the entity at the state level and squaring things up with the IRS are two separate processes. Late federal returns, penalty abatement requests, and reinstating a lapsed EIN’s associated accounts are governed by federal law, not by Tennessee’s corporation statute, and this page does not source them. We have the state-filing answer at primary and the federal-cleanup answer not at all.
This page covers a for-profit business corporation. If you are reinstating an LLC in Tennessee instead, the filing, fee and statute are different: see reinstating an LLC in Tennessee.
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 as a source of law; those are the only publishers of the competing versions.
- Official TN SOS Application for Reinstatement Following Administrative Dissolution/Revocation, form + instructions: https://sos-tn-gov-files.tnsosfiles.com/forms/SS-9410.pdf