Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: a dissolved Georgia corporation reinstates by filing Application for Reinstatement (Secretary of State issues a Certificate of Reinstatement upon approval) under O.C.G.A. § 14-2-1422 (Reinstatement following administrative dissolution) for $260, but only within 5 years of dissolution.
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The filing, and what Georgia calls it
A domestic corporation administratively dissolved under O.C.G.A. § 14-2-1421 may apply to the Secretary of State for reinstatement, filed online via the eCorp portal or by mail/hand-delivery. The application must include a statement that all taxes owed by the corporation have been paid, and the Secretary of State’s approval issues a Certificate of Reinstatement that relates back to the dissolution date.
How long you have to reinstate
Georgia does not let a dissolved corporation reinstate forever. You have just 5 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. The corporation must apply for reinstatement within 5 years of the effective date of the administrative dissolution; after that window closes, the entity’s name reservation lapses and reinstatement under this statute is no longer available. (O.C.G.A. § 14-2-1422(a))
What you must pay before it goes through
Georgia will not reinstate the corporation until every year it sat delinquent is paid for. The application must recite that all taxes owed have been paid, and in practice the Georgia Department of Revenue must confirm the entity’s tax accounts are clear before the Secretary of State will restore the record. Filing fee is $260 ($250 filing fee + $10 service charge). (O.C.G.A. § 14-2-1422(a))
Whether your name is still yours
Your original name is not guaranteed to still be yours. The Secretary of State reserves the dissolved corporation’s name for its exclusive use for 5 years after dissolution or until reinstated, whichever is sooner; if reinstatement is not completed within 5 years, the name protection lapses and the name may be taken by another entity. Check Georgia’s business-name database before assuming the reinstatement filing will go through under the old name. (O.C.G.A. § 14-2-1422(f))
What the filing costs
Georgia’s Application for Reinstatement (Secretary of State issues a Certificate of Reinstatement upon approval) carries a $260 filing fee. $250 filing fee + $10 service charge; expedited processing available for an additional $120-$275.
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 Georgia’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 Georgia instead, the filing, fee and statute are different: see reinstating an LLC in Georgia.
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.
- Georgia Secretary of State: official How to Guide: Reinstate an Entity: https://sos.ga.gov/how-to-guide/how-guide-reinstate-entity