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How to Reinstate a Corporation in Utah (Application for Reinstatement, $54)

Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: a dissolved Utah corporation reinstates by filing Application for Reinstatement (for a Domestic Profit Corporation), filed with the Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code (Utah Department of Commerce) through the Division’s Business Registration System under Utah Code § 16-10a-1422 (Reinstatement following dissolution), referencing dissolution under § 16-10a-1403 or § 16-10a-1421, all within Title 16, Chapter 10a (Utah Revised Business Corporation Act), Part 14 for $54, with no statutory deadline to do it.

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The filing, and what Utah calls it

Utah calls this process ‘reinstatement.’ A corporation administratively dissolved under § 16-10a-1421 (or dissolved under § 16-10a-1403) may apply to the Division of Corporations and Commercial Code for reinstatement under its same corporate name, provided that name is still available. The application must show the grounds for dissolution no longer exist and that fees, penalties, and tax obligations are resolved; once granted, reinstatement relates back to the effective date of dissolution so the corporation’s acts during the dissolved period are treated as if dissolution never occurred.

How long you have to reinstate

Utah sets no deadline for reinstating a dissolved corporation. The statute text (fetched directly from le.utah.gov) states a dissolved corporation ‘may apply to the division for reinstatement… at any time after the effective date of dissolution’ – there is no fixed number of years within which the application must be filed. Separately, the statute gives the corporation’s own name a 5-year protection window after dissolution (see ‘Whether your name is still yours’ below), which is a name-retention period, not a filing deadline. That does not mean waiting is free; back fees and penalties keep accruing the whole time the entity sits dissolved. (Utah Code § 16-10a-1422, as published at le.utah.gov/xcode/Title16/Chapter10A/C16-10a-S1422_2024050120240501.html (effective 5/1/2024))

What you must pay before it goes through

Utah will not reinstate the corporation until every year it sat delinquent is paid for. Before reinstatement is granted, the application must state that the corporation has paid all fees or penalties imposed under Chapter 10a or other applicable state law, and that it has paid all taxes, fees, or penalties owed to the Utah State Tax Commission, or is current on a payment plan with the State Tax Commission. Separately, the Division’s own fee schedule confirms that a reinstatement filing incurs an $18 charge for each year the annual renewal/report was missed, plus a $10 delinquency fee, on top of the reinstatement filing fee itself. Utah does not have a corporate franchise tax; the recurring obligation is the annual renewal/report fee to the Division plus any state tax obligations to the Tax Commission. (Utah Code § 16-10a-1422 (application requirements) and Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code, ‘Fiscal Year 2026 Fee Schedule’ (effective July 1, 2025), Section 4 ‘Reinstatement Filings,’ at commerce.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/currentfees.pdf)

Whether your name is still yours

Your original name is not guaranteed to still be yours. The statute affirmatively protects the corporation’s name for a defined period, not indefinitely: ‘A corporation administratively dissolved… retains the corporation’s corporate name and assumed name… for five years after the day on which the dissolution is effective.’ Reinstatement under the same name is only available if that name is still available at the time of the application. The statute text obtained does not spell out what happens if the corporation waits past the five-year window and another entity has since taken the name (i.e., it does not describe an alternate-name reinstatement mechanism), so beyond the five-year mark the name should be treated as at risk of use by another entity. Check Utah’s business-name database before assuming the reinstatement filing will go through under the old name. (Utah Code § 16-10a-1422, as published at le.utah.gov/xcode/Title16/Chapter10A/C16-10a-S1422_2024050120240501.html (effective 5/1/2024))

What the filing costs

Utah’s Application for Reinstatement (for a Domestic Profit Corporation), filed with the Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code (Utah Department of Commerce) through the Division’s Business Registration System carries a $54 filing fee. Confirmed directly from the Division of Corporations and Commercial Code’s own ‘Fiscal Year 2026 Fee Schedule’ (effective July 1, 2025): ‘Domestic corporation reinstatement $54.’ The same schedule notes reinstatement filings also incur an additional $18 for each year the annual renewal/report was missed, plus a separate $10 delinquency fee – so total out-of-pocket cost varies by how long the corporation was dissolved. (Nonprofit corporation reinstatement is a different figure, $30, per the same page.)

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 Utah’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 Utah instead, the filing, fee and statute are different: see reinstating an LLC in Utah.

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.

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