Updated August 12, 2026. Quick answer. To dissolve an LLC in Alaska you file the Articles of Dissolution – Domestic Limited Liability Company, and it can be filed on paper only. Fee: $25 non-refundable filing fee. Alaska requires no tax-clearance certificate to accept the filing. Until that filing is accepted the LLC still legally exists — and whatever Alaska charges an LLC each year keeps accruing against it.
What you file in Alaska, and what it costs
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Filing | Articles of Dissolution – Domestic Limited Liability Company, Form 08-490 (Rev. 10/10/2020), filed with the Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing (Dept. of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development), Corporations Section, Juneau |
| Fee | $25 non-refundable filing fee |
| How you can file | mail — The official form’s instruction is to MAIL the form and $25 fee to the Corporations Section (PO Box 110806, Juneau, AK 99811-0806). The Division’s dissolution/withdrawal web page could not be verified for an online option (page is JS-gated; see row notes), so this row records the method stated on the current official form. |
| Tax clearance | not required |
| Statute | AS 10.50.400–10.50.435 (dissolution; articles of dissolution AS 10.50.430); involuntary dissolution AS 10.50.408; judicial dissolution AS 10.50.405; signature AS 10.50.840; fee 3 AAC 16.065 |
Single-step filing under AS 10.50 — no separate termination certificate. The form itself (read in full) requires attestations that the entity is in good standing and all biennial reports due have been filed and paid; it ‘will not be filed’ if the signer does not match an official on record or if the biennial report is not current. Standard processing ~10–15 business days. Signed by a member/manager on record or attorney-in-fact (AS 10.50.840).
On the fee. Stated on Form 08-490, Part I, citing 3 AAC 16.065: ‘Mail this form and the non-refundable $25 filing fee’ — check/money order payable to State of Alaska, or the attached credit card payment form (08-4438).
Tax clearance in Alaska
No tax-clearance certificate is required to file in Alaska. That is not the same as owing nothing — it means the state will accept the filing without a revenue-agency sign-off first.
Form 08-490 requires only good standing and current biennial reports (AS 10.50.430 attestations) — no Department of Revenue clearance is required or mentioned. Alaska has no state individual income tax or statewide sales tax, so most pass-through LLCs have no DOR account to clear.
Do not just walk away
Closing the business is not closing the entity. Failure to file the biennial report leads to involuntary dissolution under AS 10.50.408: the Division mails a notice of delinquency; per secondary corroboration, if the LLC does not respond within 60 days of mailing and does not file within about six months of the due date it is involuntarily dissolved. Reinstatement is available within two years by filing all missed reports and paying all fees/penalties; the entity name is protected only ~6 months after dissolution.
Statutory text of AS 10.50.408 could not be pulled directly — www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp returned HTTP 403 and law.justia.com also 403’d (recorded, not routed around). Grounds and section number are corroborated by the involuntary-dissolution references in Division materials and two independent secondaries (uslegal Alaska corporate dissolution summary; Northwest RA describes the 60-day/6-month timeline — used for timeline color only, not cited as a source).
Closing the tax accounts
Cancel the Alaska business license by filing Business License: Request to Cancel, Form 08-4732 (per the reminder printed on Form 08-490 itself; see BusinessLicense.Alaska.Gov). If the LLC is taxed as a corporation, file a final Alaska corporate net income tax return with the Alaska DOR; pass-through LLCs generally have no state income tax filing. Cancel any professional licenses via [email protected].
The business-license cancellation and professional-licensing reminders are printed on page 2 of official Form 08-490.
Before you file
- The order the steps go in — internal decision, creditors and distributions, the state filing, the final returns, then the registrations you are still paying for.
- What an LLC costs to keep alive in Alaska — the bill that keeps running until this filing lands.
- What dissolution costs in all 51 jurisdictions — the fee, the filing route and the tax-clearance flag, side by side.
- What happens if you simply stop filing — administrative dissolution is the walk-away trap happening to you rather than by you.
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Sources and limits
AS 10.50.400–10.50.435 (dissolution; articles of dissolution AS 10.50.430); involuntary dissolution AS 10.50.408; judicial dissolution AS 10.50.405; signature AS 10.50.840; fee 3 AAC 16.065. Fee, form and procedure read 2026-08-10 from the official source.
Research note. Row built from the official Form 08-490 PDF (read in full). Access failures recorded: akleg.gov statutes page 403; commerce.alaska.gov dissolution/withdrawal HTML page JS-gated (content not retrievable); law.justia.com Alaska Title 10 page 403.
Honest gap. This page covers the state filing that ends the entity, its fee and its tax-clearance condition. It does not cover creditor claims against a dissolved LLC, disputes between members, the tax treatment of a final distribution, reinstatement after an administrative dissolution, or withdrawal from any other state you registered in — each of those has its own rules. General information, not legal or tax advice. See methodology and corrections.