Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: a dissolved Florida corporation reinstates by filing Application for Reinstatement (filed online via the Division of Corporations’ Sunbiz e-file reinstatement portal, or a current annual report containing equivalent information) under Fla. Stat. § 607.1422 (Reinstatement following administrative dissolution) for $750, with no statutory deadline to do it.
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The filing, and what Florida calls it
A Florida for-profit corporation administratively dissolved for failing to file its annual report may apply for reinstatement, filed online through Sunbiz, at any time after the dissolution’s effective date, by submitting a reinstatement application (or a current annual report) signed by the registered agent and an officer/director, together with payment of all fees and penalties owed. Upon Division approval, reinstatement relates back to the dissolution date as if it never occurred.
How long you have to reinstate
Florida sets no deadline for reinstating a dissolved corporation. Fla. Stat. § 607.1422(1) expressly allows application for reinstatement ‘at any time after the effective date of dissolution’; no statutory cutoff after which a new entity must instead be formed. That does not mean waiting is free; back fees and penalties keep accruing the whole time the entity sits dissolved. (Fla. Stat. § 607.1422(1))
What you must pay before it goes through
Florida will not reinstate the corporation until every year it sat delinquent is paid for. All fees and penalties owed at current statutory rates must accompany the reinstatement application. Per Sunbiz’s official fee schedule, the total is $600 reinstatement fee + $150 annual report fee ($750 minimum), with an additional $150 if filed after January 1 of a subsequent year. (Fla. Stat. § 607.1422)
Whether your name is still yours
Your original name is not guaranteed to still be yours. Section 607.1422(3) protects the dissolved corporation’s name from use by another entity for only 1 year after the dissolution’s effective date (unless the corporation consents sooner to release it). For entities dissolved more than one calendar year, an examiner checks name availability before reinstatement is processed, and a separate Articles of Amendment is required if the name has been taken. Check Florida’s business-name database before assuming the reinstatement filing will go through under the old name. (Fla. Stat. § 607.1422(3))
What the filing costs
Florida’s Application for Reinstatement (filed online via the Division of Corporations’ Sunbiz e-file reinstatement portal, or a current annual report containing equivalent information) carries a $750 filing fee. $600 reinstatement fee + $150 annual report fee ($750 minimum); an additional $150 applies if filed after January 1 of a subsequent year.
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 Florida’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 reinstating a for-profit business corporation. If your entity is an LLC and you are closing it instead of reinstating it, that is a different filing: see dissolving an LLC in Florida.
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.
- Florida Senate: current statute text, Fla. Stat. 607.1422: https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2026/607.1422
- FL Division of Corporations: official reinstatement filing instructions: https://dos.fl.gov/sunbiz/manage-business/efile/reinstatement/instructions/
- Sunbiz (FL Dept of State e-file system): official reinstatement fee schedule: https://efile.sunbiz.org/p_np_rein_help.html