Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: a dissolved Nevada corporation reinstates by filing Reinstatement (filing all delinquent Annual Lists plus a signed declaration authorizing reinstatement), filed with the Nevada Secretary of State, Commercial Recordings Division (via SilverFlume) under NRS 78.180 (Defaulting corporations: Conditions and procedure for reinstatement), with NRS 78.150, 78.170, 78.175, 78.185, and 78.039 for $300, but only within 5 years of dissolution.
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The filing, and what Nevada calls it
Nevada calls this ‘reinstatement’ of a corporation whose charter was ‘revoked’/right to transact business ‘forfeited’ for failing to file its Annual List and pay the associated fee. Revocation happens automatically on the first day of the month following the one-year anniversary of the missed filing. To reinstate, the corporation files all outstanding Annual Lists plus a declaration (under penalty of perjury) that reinstatement is authorized by the board, and pays the associated fees, penalties, and a flat statutory reinstatement fee.
How long you have to reinstate
Nevada does not let a dissolved corporation reinstate forever. You have just 5 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. If a corporate charter has remained revoked for 5 consecutive years, it may not be reinstated at all – the statute states flatly ‘the charter must not be reinstated.’ (NRS 78.180(4))
What you must pay before it goes through
Nevada will not reinstate the corporation until every year it sat delinquent is paid for. The Secretary of State will not order reinstatement unless all delinquent fees and penalties have been paid (and only if revocation was solely for nonpayment). The corporation must pay: (1) the filing fee and penalty under NRS 78.150/78.170 for each year it failed to file its Annual List ($75 default penalty), and (2) a flat $300 statutory fee for reinstatement itself. (NRS 78.180(1)(b), (3); NRS 78.170(3))
Whether your name is still yours
Your original name is not guaranteed to still be yours. The name of a corporation whose charter has been revoked is, by statute, immediately ‘available for use by any other artificial person’ – there is no grace period. NRS 78.185 separately governs reinstating/reviving under either the old name or a new name if the old one has since been taken. Check Nevada’s business-name database before assuming the reinstatement filing will go through under the old name. (NRS 78.039(3))
What the filing costs
Nevada’s Reinstatement (filing all delinquent Annual Lists plus a signed declaration authorizing reinstatement), filed with the Nevada Secretary of State, Commercial Recordings Division (via SilverFlume) carries a $300 filing fee. $300 is the flat statutory reinstatement fee under NRS 78.180(1)(b)(3). This is in addition to – not inclusive of – all delinquent Annual List filing fees and the $75/year default penalty under NRS 78.170, which vary by how long the corporation was delinquent and its authorized-share structure; the current base Annual List fee amount was not independently confirmed 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 Nevada’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 Nevada instead, the filing, fee and statute are different: see reinstating an LLC in Nevada.
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.
- NRS Chapter 78 – Private Corporations (full text, Nevada Legislature): https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-078.html
- Nevada SOS – eSOS Reinstatement help page: https://esos.nv.gov/HelpFiles/Reinstatement.html