Updated August 12, 2026. Quick answer. To dissolve an LLC in Kansas you file the Certificate of Cancellation, and it can be filed online or on paper. Fee: $30 online; $35 paper (+$20 per series, paper only). Kansas requires no tax-clearance certificate to accept the filing. Until that filing is accepted the LLC still legally exists — and whatever Kansas charges an LLC each year keeps accruing against it.
What you file in Kansas, and what it costs
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Filing | Certificate of Cancellation, Domestic (Kansas) Limited Liability Company, Form KC — filed with the Kansas Secretary of State (single-step filing) |
| Fee | $30 online; $35 paper (+$20 per series, paper only) |
| How you can file | both — Form KC instructions: file online at sos.ks.gov/businesses/close-a-business.html or mail to Kansas Secretary of State, Docking State Office Building, 915 SW Harrison Street, Topeka KS 66612. Checks and credit/debit cards accepted. Series cancellations cannot be filed online. |
| Tax clearance | not required |
| Statute | K.S.A. 17-7675 (certificate of cancellation — cited on Form KC); K.S.A. 17-76,116 (events of dissolution); K.S.A. 17-76,139 (information report/forfeiture); K.S.A. 17-76,146 (reinstatement) |
Kansas uses a single Certificate of Cancellation for domestic LLCs (form rev. 1/23/26, read directly from the SOS PDF at sos.ks.gov/forms/business_services/KC.pdf). No separate articles-of-dissolution step. The business must be ‘in good standing or showing as registered’; a forfeited entity must first reinstate. If the LLC created series via a Certificate of Designation, a series attachment is required. Note the form-name quirk: Kansas’s ‘Certificate of Dissolution’ forms (DS, CP) are for CORPORATIONS; the LLC document is the Certificate of Cancellation (KC).
On the fee. Fee schedule printed on Form KC instructions (rev. 1/23/26): ‘Paper Certificate of Cancellation: $35 + $20 per series; Online Certificate of Cancellation: $30 (Series cannot be filed online).’ Cheapest standard route = $30 online.
If you would rather have it filed for you
Bizee will prepare and file the dissolution paperwork described above in Kansas on your behalf. The state filing fee is separate and you pay it either way. Filing it yourself, by the official route above, stays the cheapest way to close an LLC.
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Tax clearance in Kansas
No tax-clearance certificate is required to file in Kansas. That is not the same as owing nothing — it means the state will accept the filing without a revenue-agency sign-off first.
Negative verified from the SOS’s own Close a Business page (sos.ks.gov/businesses/close-a-business.html): the only precondition stated is that the entity be in good standing/registered (delinquent entities must file an information report; forfeited entities must reinstate). No Department of Revenue clearance certificate is required before the SOS filing; the SOS page notes only that ‘other documents may be required with other state or federal agencies’ and points to Kansas Business One Stop.
Do not just walk away
Closing the business is not closing the entity. Forfeiture of articles of organization for failure to file the business entity information report; SOS itself presents non-filing as an alternative to formal cancellation
The SOS Close a Business page states: ‘Forfeiture indicates the business didn’t timely file an information report or hasn’t maintained an active resident agent,’ and that a business ‘can choose to file closing documents or allow forfeiture by not filing any closing documents.’ The information-report requirement and forfeiture are in K.S.A. 17-76,139 (reports now biennial since 2024; forfeiture follows a ~90-day delinquency window after the due date). Reinstatement (K.S.A. 17-76,146) requires filing a Certificate of Reinstatement and paying all past-due report fees for up to the preceding 10 years plus penalties. Kansas has no LLC franchise tax that keeps accruing;
Closing the tax accounts
Notify Kansas Department of Revenue of closure (Form CR-108, Notice of Business Closure) or close accounts via the KDOR Customer Service Center; file final returns through the closure date
Per KDOR’s ‘Business Closed, Sold or No Activity to Report’ page (ksrevenue.gov/busclosedsold.html): file all returns through the closing date, pay outstanding tax, and submit CR-108 to KDOR (PO Box 3506, Topeka, KS 66625-3506 or fax 785-291-3614) so accounts (sales, withholding, etc.) are closed; otherwise ‘you may be viewed as a nonfiler owing back taxes.’
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 Kansas — 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.
We do not form or dissolve LLCs and we do not sell filing services. The only ask on this page is a sponsored link, marked as one, and we may be paid if you use it. Nothing above changes based on that.
Sources and limits
K.S.A. 17-7675 (certificate of cancellation — cited on Form KC); K.S.A. 17-76,116 (events of dissolution); K.S.A. 17-76,139 (information report/forfeiture); K.S.A. 17-76,146 (reinstatement). Fee, form and procedure read 2026-08-10 from the official source.
Research note. Primary = the SOS’s own Form KC instructions (fees, methods, good-standing gate) plus sos.ks.gov/businesses/close-a-business.html and ksrevisor.gov for statute text. All figures read directly from the official PDF (rev. 1/23/26).
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.
If Kansas already ended it for you, this is the other direction. Administrative dissolution is not the filing you make on purpose, and in Kansas no deadline, and back reports are capped at ten years — but Kansas reserves the name for nobody, so the form has a substitute-name line from the start. The statute is quoted on reinstating a Kansas LLC.
Not ready to dissolve? If the LLC still has work to do, just under a different state’s law, see moving an LLC out of Kansas instead of closing it.
Closing a for-profit corporation, not an LLC? See dissolving a corporation in Kansas for the statute-specific filing, tax-clearance rule and fee.
Closing this LLC instead of moving it? If you are deciding between the two, see moving an LLC to Kansas for the same-entity alternative to dissolving.
Related: Kansas’s registered agent requirements, including who can serve and what happens if you don’t have one.
Related: Kansas’s LLC Certificate of Good Standing cost, including who issues it and how fast you can get one.