LLC reinstatement · Arkansas

How to Reinstate an Arkansas LLC

The short answer. If your Arkansas LLC has been administratively dissolved, you restore it by filing an application for reinstatement with the Arkansas Secretary of State.

Arkansas LLC Reinstatement at a Glance

What Arkansas calls the statusAdministratively dissolved or revoked
What you fileApplication for Reinstatement
Filed withArkansas Secretary of State
How to fileNot confirmed
Reinstatement feeNot confirmed
Time limit to reinstate2 years (see Deadline)
Tax clearanceNot confirmed
RetroactiveYes (see What reinstatement does)

Read from the government sources listed at the foot of this page, last checked September 30, 2026. See the sources.

Why Arkansas Would Dissolve an LLC

The Secretary of State may dissolve an LLC that does not pay a fee, tax, interest or penalty owed to the Secretary of State, or deliver its annual report, within six months after it is due, or that goes 60 consecutive days without a registered agent in Arkansas.

The LLC has 60 days to fix the problem before it can be administratively dissolved. The 60 days are counted after the Secretary of State serves notice of its determination.

How Long You Have to Reinstate

Arkansas allows reinstatement for up to 2 years after the LLC is administratively dissolved. If the Secretary of State revoked your LLC's charter by proclamation for unpaid franchise tax, the Arkansas Corporate Franchise Tax Act does not allow reinstatement of that revocation after five years.

How to File

You file an application for reinstatement with the Arkansas Secretary of State.

What It Costs

We have not confirmed the fee for the application for reinstatement; check with the Arkansas Secretary of State.

The LLC must pay every fee, tax, interest charge and penalty that was due to the Secretary of State when it was dissolved, and every one that would have come due while it was dissolved.

We have not confirmed whether Arkansas requires a tax clearance to reinstate; check with the Arkansas Secretary of State.

Registered Agent Options

If your LLC's registered agent has changed, resigned or lapsed, ask the filing office named above whether Arkansaswants that updated as part of reinstatement. You do not have to buy a service for it: in most states the LLC's owner, or another individual who qualifies, may serve as its registered agent themselves, generally subject to that state's rules on keeping a street address in the state and being available there during normal business hours. A paid service is one option and not the only one. The Arkansas registered agent requirements set out what Arkansas itself asks.

Registered agent services for Arkansas LLCs

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What Reinstatement Does

Under Arkansas's law, a reinstated LLC continues as if it had never been administratively dissolved. The rights of anyone who acted in reliance on the dissolution before knowing or having notice of the reinstatement are not affected.

If another business has taken the LLC's name in the meantime, the LLC needs a name that is still available to reinstate. Once the LLC is dissolved, its name is open to other LLCs, and if it has been taken the LLC must reinstate under a new name.

Worth Knowing in Arkansas

Arkansas also revokes the charter of an LLC that is behind on its annual franchise tax, by a Secretary of State proclamation under the Arkansas Corporate Franchise Tax Act. An LLC revoked that way is reinstated under that Act after it files all delinquent franchise tax reports and pays all taxes and penalties due for each year of delinquency, and the reinstatement is retroactive to the date of revocation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

This guide is general information, not legal or tax advice, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. It reports what each state's law and filing office say about bringing back an LLC the state has dissolved, with the sources this page cites. It cannot tell you where your own LLC stands: that turns on why and when it was dissolved, what it still owes, and whether anyone has since taken its name, and fees and deadlines change between our reviews. Confirm your LLC's status and the current requirements with the filing office or tax agency named on this page, and ask a lawyer about anything the LLC did while it was dissolved. In many states a missed deadline ends the right to reinstate, so do not wait.

Related guides

LLC late fees by stateWhat a late annual report costs before it comes to dissolution →Annual report complianceDeadlines and fees for all 50 states, so it does not happen again →Annual report deadline finderEnter your formation date for your next due date →Certificate of good standingProve the LLC is active again once it is reinstated →Dissolving an LLCIf you would rather close the LLC properly than bring it back →
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Sources

Each entry below is a document recorded in our verified Arkansas sources, and each entry says what the document is. Some statutory text is read from an accurate mirror rather than from the state's own host, and those say so.

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Edmond Hui · Founder, MyStateLLC

Edmond Hui is a software engineer and serial entrepreneur based in New York who has founded multiple online businesses across e-commerce, media, and information publishing. Before transitioning into tech, he spent years as a commercial real estate professional closing deals totaling over 100,000 square feet, giving him firsthand experience with business formation and entity structuring. He built MyStateLLC to provide the free, state-specific LLC guidance he wished existed when forming his own companies.