Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: an Indiana for-profit corporation dissolves by filing Articles of Dissolution under Ind. Code § 23-1-45-3 for $30, and Indiana does not gate the filing on a tax clearance certificate.
The filing, and what Indiana calls it
Indiana’s Articles of Dissolution (State Form 34471) are filed with the Secretary of State’s Business Services Division under Ind. Code §§ 23-1-45-2 (authorization) and 23-1-45-3 (filing).
The tax clearance question
Indiana does not gate the Articles of Dissolution on a tax clearance certificate. No tax clearance is required before the Secretary of State accepts the filing. The form itself states that notice to the Department of Revenue and the Department of Workforce Development happens after the Articles of Dissolution are approved and a Certificate of Dissolution is received: a post-filing notice, not a precondition. (Ind. Code §§ 6-8.1-10-9, 22-4-32-23 (post-filing notice requirements)) That does not erase the corporation’s final tax filings; it just means the Secretary of State’s office is not the one checking for them before accepting the paperwork.
Creditors and the claims window
Indiana makes available, but does not require, a formal notice-to-known-and-unknown-creditors procedure. Optional (the corporation ‘may’ publish notice). Claims are barred unless a proceeding is commenced within 2 years of the publication date. (Ind. Code § 23-1-45-7)
What the filing costs
The Articles of Dissolution carries a $30 filing fee.
What this page does not answer
Dissolving the entity at the state level and closing it out with the IRS are two separate processes. A final federal return, IRS Form 966 in some circumstances, and canceling the EIN are governed by federal law, not by Indiana’s corporation statute, and this cluster does not source them. We have the state-filing answer at primary and the federal-closeout answer not at all.
This page sells nothing and links to no filing service. Dissolving a corporation is a filing-desk task with a statutory answer, and the answer is either in the state’s code and the Secretary of State’s own instructions or it is not.
This page covers a for-profit business corporation. If you are closing an LLC in Indiana instead, the filing, fee and statute are different: see dissolving an LLC in Indiana.
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; those are the only publishers of the competing versions.
- Indiana Dept. of Revenue, Close a Corporation: https://www.in.gov/dor/i-am-a/business-corp/close-corporation/
- State Form 34471, Articles of Dissolution: https://forms.in.gov/Download.aspx?id=4918