Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: a dissolved Hawaii corporation reinstates by filing Application for Reinstatement (Form X-4), filed with the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA), Business Registration Division (BREG) under Haw. Rev. Stat. §414-403 (Reinstatement following administrative dissolution); dissolution procedure at §414-402 for $25, but only within 2 years of dissolution.
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The filing, and what Hawaii calls it
Hawaii calls this process ‘reinstatement.’ It is triggered by administrative dissolution/termination ordered by the DCCA Director, typically for failure to file annual reports or maintain a registered agent. The domestic corporation files Form X-4 with BREG, attaching delinquent annual reports and a Department of Taxation certificate showing taxes are paid, arranged, or under appeal, plus payment of delinquent fees/penalties and the filing fee; reinstatement relates back to the dissolution date as if it never occurred.
How long you have to reinstate
Hawaii does not let a dissolved corporation reinstate forever. You have just 2 years from the dissolution or revocation date; miss it and the only path back is forming a new entity from scratch, losing the original formation date and history. Form X-4’s own instructions (citing HRS 414-403) state the reinstatement period is within two years after the effective date of involuntary dissolution/cancellation/revocation or administrative termination. Only domestic entities may apply for reinstatement. (HRS §414-403, as stated on DCCA Form X-4 (11/2025))
What you must pay before it goes through
Hawaii will not reinstate the corporation until every year it sat delinquent is paid for. The applicant must attach a certificate/writing from the Hawaii Department of Taxation confirming all state taxes are paid, under a payment arrangement, or under administrative/judicial appeal, AND must attach delinquent annual statements/reports for every missed year and pay all delinquent fees, penalties and other costs (amount stated on the form), plus the nonrefundable filing fee. (DCCA Form X-4 (11/2025), Items 4-6)
Whether your name is still yours
Whether Hawaii protects a dissolved corporation’s name against a new filer during the dissolved period was not independently confirmed this session; Could not confirm from a primary source this session whether the corporate name remains reserved during administrative dissolution or becomes available to other filers. The HRS text on capitol.hawaii.gov blocked access on repeated attempts, and the DCCA pages that could be read (fee schedule, name-reservation FAQ search) do not address dissolved-corporation name retention. (not independently confirmed this session)
What the filing costs
Hawaii’s Application for Reinstatement (Form X-4), filed with the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA), Business Registration Division (BREG) carries a $25 filing fee. Domestic profit corporation reinstatement fee is $25.00 (nonrefundable), confirmed on both Form X-4 and the DCCA Domestic Profit Corporation fee schedule page. An optional certified copy is an additional $10. This is separate from any delinquent annual-report fees, penalties, and Department of Taxation amounts owed.
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 Hawaii’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 Hawaii instead, the filing, fee and statute are different: see reinstating an LLC in Hawaii.
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.
- DCCA Form X-4, Application for Reinstatement (11/2025): https://files.hawaii.gov/dcca/breg/registration/forms/x-4-pdf.pdf
- DCCA Domestic Profit Corporation fee schedule: https://www.cca.hawaii.gov/breg/registration/dpc/fees/