Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: a dissolved Wyoming corporation reinstates by filing Application for Reinstatement Following Administrative Dissolution (referred to by the Secretary of State simply as “Reinstatement”), filed with the Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division under W.S. 17-16-1420 through 17-16-1423 (Wyoming Business Corporation Act, Title 17, Chapter 16, Article 14, Part B “Administrative Dissolution”); reinstatement itself is governed by W.S. 17-16-1422, with the reinstatement certificate fee authorized under W.S. 17-16-122 for $100, but only within 2 years of dissolution.
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The filing, and what Wyoming calls it
Wyoming calls this process “reinstatement following administrative dissolution.” It is triggered when the Secretary of State administratively dissolves a corporation for one of the grounds listed in W.S. 17-16-1420 (e.g., failure to file its annual report or pay annual license taxes, lack of a registered agent, expiration of stated duration, or certain public-interest grounds) after the notice-and-cure procedure in W.S. 17-16-1421. An officer or other person with proper authority at the time of dissolution applies to the Secretary of State, curing the grounds and paying any required fees/back taxes; if the application is complete and correct, the Secretary of State cancels the certificate of dissolution and issues a certificate of reinstatement that relates back to the original dissolution date, as if the dissolution never occurred (W.S. 17-16-1422(b)-(c)).
How long you have to reinstate
Wyoming 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. The statute is explicit: an officer or other authorized person ‘may apply to the secretary of state for reinstatement within two (2) years after the effective date of dissolution’ (W.S. 17-16-1422(a)). The Wyoming Secretary of State’s own Business FAQ confirms this in agency language: ‘Wyoming statutes do not allow for reinstatement after two (2) years in an administratively dissolved standing.’ After that window closes, the corporation can no longer be reinstated under this section. (W.S. 17-16-1422(a); Wyoming Secretary of State Business Division FAQ (sos.wyo.gov/faqs.aspx?root=BUS))
What you must pay before it goes through
Wyoming will not reinstate the corporation until every year it sat delinquent is paid for. The reinstatement application must resolve whatever caused the dissolution and pay associated money. If dissolved for failing to deliver its annual report or pay annual license taxes under W.S. 17-16-1630, the application must ‘include payment of fees and taxes then delinquent and a reinstatement certificate fee prescribed pursuant to W.S. 17-16-122’ (W.S. 17-16-1422(a)(iv)). If dissolved for lack of a registered agent, the application must include ‘payment of a two hundred fifty dollar ($250.00) reinstatement fee and payment of any fees and taxes then delinquent’ (W.S. 17-16-1422(a)(v)). Current fee schedule (effective July 1, 2026) sets the ‘Reinstatement for Tax’ fee for Profit Corporations at $100.00 and ‘Reinstatement for No Registered Agent’ at $250.00, in addition to any delinquent annual report license taxes owed. (W.S. 17-16-1422(a)(iv)-(v); W.S. 17-16-122; Wyoming Secretary of State Business Division Filing Fee Schedule, effective July 1, 2026 (sos.wyo.gov/Business/docs/BusinessFees.pdf))
Whether your name is still yours
Your original name is not guaranteed to still be yours. The statute only guarantees the name for a limited window: W.S. 17-16-1422(d) states ‘The corporation shall retain its registered corporate name during the two (2) year reinstatement period’ – protection is explicitly tied to that 2-year window, not indefinite. Wyoming’s general corporate-name rule (W.S. 17-16-401(b)) requires distinguishability on the SOS’s records, and the neighboring revocation-of-voluntary-dissolution provision (W.S. 17-16-1404(e)) expressly contemplates a revived corporation being ‘required to adopt some other name’ if its original name is no longer available. Reading these together: during the 2-year window the statute protects the name, but does not extend the guarantee past 2 years. This is a reasoned reading of related sections, not one bright-line quoted rule. Check Wyoming’s business-name database before assuming the reinstatement filing will go through under the old name. (W.S. 17-16-1422(d); W.S. 17-16-401(b); W.S. 17-16-1404(e))
What the filing costs
Wyoming’s Application for Reinstatement Following Administrative Dissolution (referred to by the Secretary of State simply as “Reinstatement”), filed with the Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division carries a $100 filing fee. This is the ‘Reinstatement for Tax’ fee for Profit Corporations from the Wyoming SOS Business Division Filing Fee Schedule effective July 1, 2026 – applies to the most common dissolution ground (failure to file annual report/pay annual license tax). If dissolved instead for lacking a registered agent, the confirmed fee is $250.00 (matching W.S. 17-16-1422(a)(v)). Neither figure includes delinquent annual report license taxes or back fees separately 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 Wyoming’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 Wyoming instead, the filing, fee and statute are different: see reinstating an LLC in Wyoming.
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.
- Wyoming Statutes Title 17 (Corporations, Partnerships and Associations), official compiled statutes PDF – Wyoming Legislature: https://wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title17.pdf
- Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division – Filing Fee Schedule (effective July 1, 2026): https://sos.wyo.gov/Business/docs/BusinessFees.pdf
- Wyoming Secretary of State – Business Entities FAQ: https://sos.wyo.gov/faqs.aspx?root=BUS
- Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division – Online Reinstatement filing page (wyobiz.wyo.gov): https://wyobiz.wyo.gov/Business/Reinstatement.aspx