Updated August 12, 2026. Quick answer. To dissolve an LLC in Connecticut you file the Certificate of Dissolution – Limited Liability Company: Domestic, and it can be filed online or on paper. Fee: $0. Connecticut requires no tax-clearance certificate to accept the filing. Until that filing is accepted the LLC still legally exists — and whatever Connecticut charges an LLC each year keeps accruing against it.
What you file in Connecticut, and what it costs
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Filing | Certificate of Dissolution – Limited Liability Company: Domestic, Form BUS-035 (Rev. 1/2024) |
| Fee | $0 |
| How you can file | both — Online via business.ct.gov (‘File your dissolution online with the Secretary of the State’); paper BUS-035 accepted by mail/delivery to the Business Services Division, Hartford. |
| Tax clearance | not required |
| Statute | Conn. Gen. Stat. 34-267 (events causing dissolution); 34-267a(b)(1)(A) (certificate of dissolution); 34-267b (reinstatement); 34-267g (dissolution by forfeiture) |
Single-step filing with the Secretary of the State, Business Services Division. Filed online through business.ct.gov (preferred per the SOS’s dissolution guide) or on paper Form BUS-035 mailed to P.O. Box 150470, Hartford CT 06115-0470. The statute requires the wound-up LLC to ‘promptly after the dissolution, deliver to the Secretary of the State for filing a certificate of dissolution’ (C.G.S. 34-267a(b)(1)(A)).
On the fee. Form BUS-035 itself states ‘No Fee Required’ (verified on the official PDF, Rev. 1/2024). No online/paper fee split — both are free.
Tax clearance in Connecticut
No tax-clearance certificate is required to file in Connecticut. That is not the same as owing nothing — it means the state will accept the filing without a revenue-agency sign-off first.
No tax clearance certificate is required to file the dissolution. Negative verified from the SOS’s own dissolution guide (business.ct.gov ‘Business dissolution – LLC’), which instructs: ‘Step 1: File your business dissolution online’ and treats paying outstanding DRS balances and closing tax accounts as separate later steps (Steps 3-4), not filing prerequisites.
Do not just walk away
Closing the business is not closing the entity. Annual-report default of more than 1 year exposes the LLC to dissolution by forfeiture (C.G.S. 34-267g) after a 3-month cure notice; SOS actively runs this program
Statute: when an LLC ‘is more than one year in default of filing its annual report,’ the Secretary may e-mail notice that its rights and powers are prima facie forfeited; unless the report is filed within 3 months, the Secretary files a certificate of dissolution by forfeiture. Same mechanism applies for failure to maintain a registered agent. The SOS is actively issuing ‘Notice of Intent to Dissolve or Revoke’ letters (banner on business.ct.gov). SOS guide also warns an unclosed business ‘is still considered active and may be subject to business entity tax’ and remains exposed to annual fees, reports and lawsuits until a dissolution is filed.
Closing the tax accounts
Pay outstanding sales/use, withholding, unemployment balances; close DRS tax accounts online at myconneCT; file final returns and issue final W-2s
Per the SOS dissolution guide: check and pay all outstanding balances (sales and use tax, employee withholding, unemployment insurance, interest/fees); ‘You can also close your DRS tax and state accounts online at myconneCT’; send final returns to close accounts; stop withholdings and issue W-2s to workers.
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 Connecticut — 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
Conn. Gen. Stat. 34-267 (events causing dissolution); 34-267a(b)(1)(A) (certificate of dissolution); 34-267b (reinstatement); 34-267g (dissolution by forfeiture). Fee, form and procedure read 2026-08-10 from the official source.
Research note. Fee and form verified on the official BUS-035 PDF (business.ct.gov/-/media/BusinessOneStop/BSD_Forms/BUS-035-CERTIFICATE-OF-DISSOLUTION_LLC_Domestic-20211210.pdf, Rev. 1/2024); statute text from cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_613a.htm.
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.