Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: a dissolved Mississippi corporation reinstates by filing Application for Reinstatement Following Administrative Dissolution, filed online with the Mississippi Secretary of State (Business Services Division) under Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-14.22 (Mississippi Business Corporation Act, Article 14, Subarticle B – Administrative Dissolution); name requirement cross-reference at § 79-4-4.01. NOTE: raw statute text could not be fetched at a Mississippi .gov site this session – Mississippi’s designated official Code publisher is LexisNexis (paywalled/JS-rendered). Section number and mechanism corroborated by the Mississippi Secretary of State’s own FAQ and fee-schedule pages. for $50, though the state’s own materials do not clearly state a deadline.
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The filing, and what Mississippi calls it
Mississippi calls this process ‘reinstatement following administrative dissolution.’ It is triggered when the Secretary of State administratively dissolves a corporation (commonly for failing to pay taxes owed to the state). To reinstate, the corporation files an online Application for Reinstatement with the Secretary of State and must attach a tax clearance letter obtained from the Mississippi Department of Revenue confirming all state taxes have been paid; the Secretary of State then cancels the dissolution and issues a certificate of reinstatement.
How long you have to reinstate
Mississippi’s own materials did not give a clear, single answer on a reinstatement deadline this session; The Mississippi Secretary of State’s own Business FAQ pages, which describe the reinstatement filing process step by step, do not mention any time limit for filing. Consistent with no statutory deadline, but the literal statute text (§79-4-14.22) could not be fetched at a primary Mississippi source this session to confirm directly, so left null rather than asserted.. (Mississippi Secretary of State, Business FAQs – https://www.sos.ms.gov/business-services/business-faqs (statute text itself not independently verified))
What you must pay before it goes through
Mississippi will not reinstate the corporation until every year it sat delinquent is paid for. The Secretary of State requires a tax clearance letter from the Mississippi Department of Revenue, confirming all state taxes owed by the corporation have been paid, to be obtained first and then attached electronically to the online Application for Reinstatement before the Secretary of State will process it. (Mississippi Secretary of State, Business FAQs – https://www.sos.ms.gov/business-services/business-faqs)
Whether your name is still yours
Whether Mississippi protects a dissolved corporation’s name against a new filer during the dissolved period was not independently confirmed this session; The reinstatement application must state that the corporation’s name still satisfies Mississippi’s corporate-name requirements, implying the name could become unavailable during dissolution if taken by another filer, but the primary text of the naming statute (or a dissolved-name grace-period provision) could not be fetched at a Mississippi .gov source this session to confirm mechanics.. (Not independently confirmed at a primary source this session)
What the filing costs
Mississippi’s Application for Reinstatement Following Administrative Dissolution, filed online with the Mississippi Secretary of State (Business Services Division) carries a $50 filing fee. $50 for a domestic corporation (Form F0022, ‘Application for Reinstatement Following Administrative Dissolution’), confirmed directly from the Secretary of State’s own Fee Schedule PDF. The same fee schedule separately lists $100 for a foreign corporation’s reinstatement. Separate from any back taxes owed to the Department of Revenue that must be cleared first.
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 Mississippi’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 Mississippi instead, the filing, fee and statute are different: see reinstating an LLC in Mississippi.
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.
- MS SOS – Business FAQs: https://www.sos.ms.gov/business-services/business-faqs
- MS SOS – FAQs (alternate): https://www.sos.ms.gov/business-services/faqs
- MS SOS – Business Services Fee Schedule (PDF): https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/documents/Business/FeeSchedule.pdf
- MS SOS – Mississippi Law (official Code publisher notice): https://www.sos.ms.gov/publications-external-affairs/mississippi-law