Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: a dissolved Kansas corporation reinstates by filing Certificate of Revival (Form RR), filed with the Kansas Secretary of State, together with all past-due Information Reports (Form IFP for for-profit corporations) under K.S.A. 17-7002 (Revival of articles of incorporation); K.S.A. 17-7510 (forfeiture for failure to file information report/pay fee) for $230, with no statutory deadline to do it.
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The filing, and what Kansas calls it
Kansas calls this ‘revival,’ and the underlying status is ‘forfeiture’ rather than dissolution. Forfeiture occurs when a domestic corporation fails to file its biennial information report or pay the fee within 90 days of the deadline. A forfeited corporation may procure revival of its articles of incorporation at any time by filing Form RR with the Secretary of State, along with every past-due information report (up to 10 years) and all associated fees and penalties; revival restores the corporation’s rights as if forfeiture never occurred.
How long you have to reinstate
Kansas sets no deadline for reinstating a dissolved corporation. K.S.A. 17-7002 sets no outer deadline – revival may be procured ‘at any time’ after forfeiture. The catch-up filing itself is capped: most businesses need only file information reports for the last 10 years (max 5 biennial reports), and not-for-profits need only their single most recent past-due report. That does not mean waiting is free; back fees and penalties keep accruing the whole time the entity sits dissolved. (K.S.A. 17-7002; Kansas SOS Form RR Instructions (Rev. 6/12/26))
What you must pay before it goes through
Kansas will not reinstate the corporation until every year it sat delinquent is paid for. The Certificate of Revival must be filed with every past-due information report and its fee. Per the Kansas SOS’s own Form RR fee schedule: for-profit corporation = $35 filing fee + $85 penalty fee + $110 per missing information report (capped at 5 reports) = $230 to $670 total; not-for-profit corporation = $20 filing fee + $80 for its one past-due report = $100 flat (no penalty fee). (Kansas SOS Form RR (Certificate of Revival) Fee Schedule, Rev. 6/12/26; K.S.A. 17-7002)
Whether your name is still yours
Your original name is not guaranteed to still be yours. The Kansas SOS’s own Form RR instructions direct the filer to check name availability before reviving, and state that if a domestic corporation’s name is currently in use by another registered business, the corporation must either submit a Written Consent to Use of Similar Business Name (Form CN, per K.S.A. 17-7918) or change its name as part of the revival filing – confirming the original name is not protected during forfeiture and can be taken by another filer. Check Kansas’s business-name database before assuming the reinstatement filing will go through under the old name. (K.S.A. 17-7918; Kansas SOS Form RR Instructions)
What the filing costs
Kansas’s Certificate of Revival (Form RR), filed with the Kansas Secretary of State, together with all past-due Information Reports (Form IFP for for-profit corporations) carries a $230 filing fee. No single flat fee – total depends on how many biennial information reports are past due. Minimum for-profit total (1 missing report) is $230 ($35 filing + $85 penalty + $110 report fee); it rises by $110 per additional missing report, capped at $670 for 5 reports. Not-for-profit corporations pay a flat $100. The $230 given here is the for-profit minimum, not a universal fee.
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 Kansas’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 Kansas instead, the filing, fee and statute are different: see reinstating an LLC in Kansas.
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.
- K.S.A. 17-7510, Forfeiture for failure to file report/pay fee: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch17/017_075_0010.html
- K.S.A. 17-7002, Revival of articles of incorporation: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch17/017_070_0002.html
- Kansas SOS, Reinstate a Business: https://sos.ks.gov/businesses/reinstate-a-business.html
- Kansas SOS Form RR, Certificate of Revival (Corporation and Business Trust): https://sos.ks.gov/forms/business_services/RR.pdf