Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: a dissolved Alaska corporation reinstates by filing Reinstatement following involuntary dissolution, submitted to the Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development (Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing). Statute does not name a specific form; DCCED’s own filing-instructions page (commerce.alaska.gov) returned HTTP 403 on every attempt this session, so the exact form name/number could not be confirmed from a primary source. under AS 10.06.633 (Involuntary dissolution by the commissioner: grounds, procedure, reinstatement); name-availability cross-reference AS 10.06.105(d), but only within 2 years of dissolution.
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The filing, and what Alaska calls it
Alaska calls this ‘reinstatement’ following ‘involuntary dissolution.’ The commissioner may dissolve a corporation involuntarily for grounds such as six months’ delinquency in filing its biennial report or paying biennial corporation tax/penalties, 30 days’ failure to maintain a registered agent, or a board vacancy unfilled for six months, after written notice and an opportunity for a hearing (AS 10.06.633(a)-(d)). A dissolved corporation may then apply to the commissioner for reinstatement, which is granted if either there was in fact no cause for the dissolution, or the underlying neglect/delinquency has been corrected and specified back amounts are paid (AS 10.06.633(e)).
How long you have to reinstate
Alaska does not let a dissolved corporation reinstate forever. You have just 2 years from the dissolution or revocation date; miss it and the only path back is forming a new entity from scratch, losing the original formation date and history. AS 10.06.633(e) states a corporation dissolved under this section ‘may be reinstated within two years from the date of the certificate of involuntary dissolution.’ The statute text does not describe what happens after two years beyond this reinstatement pathway closing. (AS 10.06.633(e))
What you must pay before it goes through
Alaska will not reinstate the corporation until every year it sat delinquent is paid for. Per AS 10.06.633(e), reinstatement requires ‘payment made of double the amount delinquent along with the amount the corporation would have paid had it not been dissolved during the two-year period.’ So the statute requires (1) double the original delinquent amount plus (2) the biennial taxes/fees that would have otherwise accrued during the dissolved period. AS 10.06.633(f) further clarifies reinstatement does not relieve the corporation of penalties for failing to pay subsequently accruing licenses/taxes. A specific reinstatement filing fee separate from these statutory back amounts could not be confirmed because DCCED’s fee-schedule page was inaccessible (403). (AS 10.06.633(e)-(f))
Whether your name is still yours
Your original name is not guaranteed to still be yours. AS 10.06.633(d) states that upon issuance of the certificate of involuntary dissolution, the corporation’s name ‘shall be available to and may be adopted by another corporation no less than six months after the dissolution.’ AS 10.06.633(e) says reinstatement ‘may not be authorized if the name is not available for corporate use under AS 10.06.105(d) unless the corporation being reinstated amends its articles of incorporation to change its name’ to a distinguishable one. Check Alaska’s business-name database before assuming the reinstatement filing will go through under the old name. (AS 10.06.633(d), AS 10.06.633(e); AS 10.06.105(d))
What the filing costs
Not confirmed from a primary source this session. commerce.alaska.gov (DCCED Division of Corporations) blocked access on every page tried; a Wayback Machine snapshot was rate-limited (429) on repeated retries. No formation-service-quoted figure was substituted.
What this page does not answer
Reinstating the entity at the state level and squaring things up with the IRS are two separate processes. Late federal returns, penalty abatement requests, and reinstating a lapsed EIN’s associated accounts are governed by federal law, not by Alaska’s corporation statute, and this page does not source them. We have the state-filing answer at primary and the federal-cleanup answer not at all.
This page covers a for-profit business corporation. If you are reinstating an LLC in Alaska instead, the filing, fee and statute are different: see reinstating an LLC in Alaska.
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 as a source of law; those are the only publishers of the competing versions.
- Alaska Statutes AS 10.06.633 – Involuntary dissolution by the commissioner: grounds, procedure, reinstatement: https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp?media=print&secStart=10.06.633&secEnd=10.06.633
- Alaska Statutes AS 10.06.105 – Corporate name: https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp?media=print&secStart=10.06.105&secEnd=10.06.105
- akleg.gov Alaska Statutes search/navigation page: https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp