Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: a dissolved Oklahoma corporation reinstates by filing Renewal, Revival, Extension and Restoration of Certificate of Incorporation (SOS Form 0027), filed with the Oklahoma Secretary of State under 18 O.S. § 1120 (Oklahoma General Corporation Act, Title 18, Chapter 22) for $50, with no statutory deadline to do it.
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The filing, and what Oklahoma calls it
Oklahoma calls this ‘revival’ of a forfeited certificate of incorporation. It applies where the certificate ‘became forfeited by law for nonpayment of taxes’ (the statute expressly carves out corporations revoked/forfeited through the separate court/Attorney General quo warranto process under § 1104, which this section does not cure). The corporation (acting through its former or newly-elected directors) files SOS Form 0027 reciting its original incorporation date and registered agent, and – if required – a new name, restoring it with the same force and effect as if the certificate had never lapsed. A separate SOS document, Form 145 (‘Application for Reinstatement’), exists but applies only to LLCs/registered series and limited partnerships – it is not the corporation filing.
How long you have to reinstate
Oklahoma sets no deadline for reinstating a dissolved corporation. The statute states a corporation ‘may at any time procure a revival’ – there is no fixed outer deadline for filing the certificate of revival itself. The only time-sensitive consequence is on the corporate name: after 3 years from forfeiture, if the name has become unavailable on SOS’s records, the corporation must revive under a different name. That does not mean waiting is free; back fees and penalties keep accruing the whole time the entity sits dissolved. (18 O.S. § 1120(B), (F))
What you must pay before it goes through
Oklahoma will not reinstate the corporation until every year it sat delinquent is paid for. The reviving corporation must pay the state the franchise-tax-related amounts specified in 68 O.S. §§ 1201-1214; that payment does not reduce the franchise tax otherwise due for the year revival occurs. Not independently verified this session whether those Title 68 franchise-tax provisions remain in force at their historical rate (Oklahoma has been phasing out its corporate franchise tax in recent years) – treated as ‘a back payment obligation exists per the statute’s text’ rather than a quantified figure. (18 O.S. § 1120(G))
Whether your name is still yours
Your original name is not guaranteed to still be yours. No risk in the first 3 years after forfeiture. After 3 years, if another entity has taken the name on the Secretary of State’s records, the corporation cannot revive under its old name and must select a new one in the certificate of revival. Check Oklahoma’s business-name database before assuming the reinstatement filing will go through under the old name. (18 O.S. § 1120(F))
What the filing costs
Oklahoma’s Renewal, Revival, Extension and Restoration of Certificate of Incorporation (SOS Form 0027), filed with the Oklahoma Secretary of State carries a $50 filing fee. $50 for a for-profit corporation; $25 if not-for-profit, per SOS Form 0027. Separate from any back franchise-tax amount owed under 68 O.S. §§ 1201-1214, not quantified 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 Oklahoma’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 Oklahoma instead, the filing, fee and statute are different: see reinstating an LLC in Oklahoma.
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.
- Oklahoma SOS Form 0027 – Renewal, Revival, Extension and Restoration of Certificate of Incorporation: https://www.sos.ok.gov/forms/FM0027.PDF
- 18 O.S. § 1120 – Revival of Certificate of Incorporation (Oklahoma State Courts Network, official statute text): https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=67129
- Oklahoma SOS – Business Forms index: https://www.sos.ok.gov/business/forms.aspx