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How to Dissolve a Corporation in Mississippi (Articles of Dissolution (Form F0014, By Directors and Shareholders; Form F0029 for incorporators/initial directors before shares issued or business commenced), $25)

Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: a Mississippi for-profit corporation dissolves by filing Articles of Dissolution (Form F0014, By Directors and Shareholders; Form F0029 for incorporators/initial directors before shares issued or business commenced) under Miss. Code Ann. §§ 79-4-14.01 to 79-4-14.09 (Mississippi Business Corporation Act, Title 79, Ch. 4, Art. 14, Subart. A, Voluntary Dissolution) for $25, and Mississippi does not gate the filing on a tax clearance certificate.

The filing, and what Mississippi calls it

Articles of Dissolution is the filing that legally dissolves a Mississippi for-profit corporation once its board of directors has recommended dissolution and shareholders have approved the proposal in the manner required by the Mississippi Business Corporation Act and the articles of incorporation; a corporation that has issued no shares or has not commenced business may instead dissolve by act of a majority of its incorporators or initial directors (a separate SOS form, F0029, exists for that path). The citation and subarticle structure is corroborated by the Mississippi Secretary of State’s fee-schedule document title and by the corp.sos.ms.gov online filing system, which lists F0014 as ‘Articles of Dissolution.’ DISCLOSED GAP: verbatim statutory text for §§ 79-4-14.01-.09 could not be independently retrieved this session (Mississippi’s designated official Code portal redirects to an authenticated LexisNexis Advance system).

The tax clearance question

Mississippi does not gate the Articles of Dissolution (Form F0014, By Directors and Shareholders; Form F0029 for incorporators/initial directors before shares issued or business commenced) on a tax clearance certificate. The Mississippi Secretary of State’s own Business FAQ page states that a tax clearance letter from the Mississippi Department of Revenue is required only when using the ‘Reinstatement’ option after an administrative dissolution, not for a standard voluntary Articles of Dissolution filing. The DOR’s own Tax Clearance Letter page similarly frames the letter as something obtained by request for entities that want proof of no outstanding liability, not as a document DOR sends to the SOS to gate an original voluntary dissolution filing. (UNVERIFIED specific statute; based on Mississippi SOS Business FAQ (sos.ms.gov/business-services/business-faqs) and Mississippi DOR Tax Clearance Letter page (dor.ms.gov)) 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

Mississippi’s notice-to-creditors provisions could not be independently confirmed this session. UNVERIFIED THIS SESSION. Mississippi’s Business Corporation Act appears (per section-title indexing only, not verbatim text) to number a known-claims section at § 79-4-14.06 and an unknown/other-claims publication-notice section at § 79-4-14.07, paralleling the same 1984 Model Business Corporation Act provisions found in Montana and Nebraska. The substantive text (day counts, mandatory vs. permissive language) could not be independently verified via a qualifying primary source this session, and day-counts are deliberately NOT inferred from Montana’s or Nebraska’s parallel sections.

What the filing costs

The Articles of Dissolution (Form F0014, By Directors and Shareholders; Form F0029 for incorporators/initial directors before shares issued or business commenced) carries a $25 filing fee. Likely $25 for Form F0014, corroborated by search-engine indexing of the SOS’s own fee-schedule PDF and a live corp.sos.ms.gov filing-portal screen showing ‘F0014 Fee: $25’, but the PDF returned undecodable binary text and the live portal screen could not be directly rendered this session, so this figure is high-confidence-but-not-self-verified.

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

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.

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