Updated August 7, 2026. Quick answer: every figure Clear Money Guide holds about Arkansas, on one page, each one copied from a dataset that cites its own statute or agency. Built for reporters on deadline — take any line, follow the link for the source.
What stands out about Arkansas
These are the figures where Arkansas differs most from the rest of the country — selected by counting how many jurisdictions share each value, not by editorial preference.
- Preferential mechanism: 50% exclusion — the only jurisdiction of the 51 we have data for
- Five year total: $800 — the only jurisdiction of the 48 we have data for
- Return deadline: 60 days — one of only 2 of 51
- Cash surrender limit: $300,000 — one of only 2 of 48
What dying costs here
- Small estate limit: 100000
- Small estate scope: unstated
Source and full detail: the cost-of-dying index. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Estate and property law status
- Authorized: yes
- Statute or act: Ark. Code 21-14-301 et seq. (Arkansas Uniform Notary Act), enacted Act 1047 of 2021 (SB 340)
- Effective date: 2021-04-29
- Conditions: The eNotary must be physically located in Arkansas; the signer may be outside the state. Only approved solution providers offering secure video and identity-verification tools may be used. The recording is retained by the solution provider for five years. Fraud in connection with remote notarizat…
- Association name: Arkansas Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association
- Death benefit limit: $300,000
- Cash surrender limit: $300,000
- Annuity limit: $300,000
- Statute citation: Ark. Code Ann. §§ 23-96-101 et seq. (Arkansas Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act); the section carrying the dollar limits was not located in a reachable text
- Extended windows: 30 days of the delivery of the contract in replacement transactions
- Refund basis: Replacement transactions: unconditional full refund of all premiums or considerations paid, including any policy fees or charges; for a variable or market-value-adjusted policy or contract, payment of the cash surrender value plus fees and charges
- Grace period days: 30 days, or at the insurer’s option one month of not less than 30 days
- Trigger: the due date of any premium after the first
- Coverage during grace: The policy continues in force; if a claim arises during the grace period, the amount of any premium due or overdue may be deducted from the policy proceeds
Source and full detail: notary rules by state · guaranty association limits · life insurance free-look periods · life insurance grace periods. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Working and earning here
- Fired deadline: By the next regular payday
- Statute citation: Ark. Code Ann. 11-4-405 (as amended by Act 2019, No. 853)
- Has law: No
- Disclosure trigger: none
- Local ordinances: none identified
- Authority: statute
- Contested: no
Source and full detail: final paycheck laws by state · pay transparency laws by state · paid family leave by state · the convenience-of-the-employer rule. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Renting here
- Deposit cap: 2 months’ rent
- Return deadline: 60 days
- Interest required: no
- Statute citation: Ark. Code 18-16-304, 18-16-305, 18-16-306
Source and full detail: security deposit law by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Starting a business here
- Formation fee: $50
- Annual report: no separate report fee — the annual filing IS the franchise tax report
- Franchise tax: $150 annual, flat
- Publication requirement: none identified
- Statute citation: Arkansas SOS LLC fee schedule under Act 1041 of 2021; franchise tax administered by the SOS (Ark. Code tit. 26 ch. 54 not fetched)
- Five year total: $800
Source and full detail: LLC cost by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Tax treatment here
- Has law: Yes
- Treatment: preferential
- Rate: top marginal 3.90%
- Preferential mechanism: 50% exclusion
- Tax year: 2025
- Statute citation: Ark. Code Ann. § 26-51-201 (rates, as amended by Act 1 of the 2024 Second Extraordinary Session); Ark. Code Ann. § 26-51-815 (capital gains)
Source and full detail: capital gains tax by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
For journalists: how to cite this
Clear Money Guide, Arkansas Money Statistics 2026. https://clearmoneyguide.com/state-money-statistics/arkansas/. Every figure on this page is copied from a Clear Money Guide dataset that states its own primary source and the date it was read — follow the section links for the statute or agency behind any number. Free to reuse with attribution under CC BY 4.0.
What this sheet does and does not contain
This sheet aggregates; it does not research. Every figure is copied from the owning page linked in each section, and a figure we do not own is simply absent — not estimated, not inferred from a neighbouring state. That is why sheets differ in length: this one states 39 figures, and a state where we hold less will show fewer. A short sheet means we have less, not that the state has less.
Statutory law changes. Each linked owner page carries the date its figures were read; check there before relying on anything here. See also Arkansas financial adviser statistics and all 51 state money sheets.
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