LLC reinstatement · Indiana

How to Reinstate an Indiana LLC

The short answer. If your Indiana LLC has been administratively dissolved, you restore it by filing an application for reinstatement with the Indiana Secretary of State, Business Services Division. The fee is $20 for an electronic filing, or $30 for a filing made in any other way.

Indiana LLC Reinstatement at a Glance

What Indiana calls the statusAdministratively dissolved
What you fileApplication for Reinstatement
Filed withIndiana Secretary of State, Business Services Division
How to fileNot confirmed
Reinstatement feeVaries (see Cost)
Time limit to reinstateDepends (see Deadline)
Tax clearanceRequired (see Cost)
RetroactiveYes (see What reinstatement does)

Read from the government sources listed at the foot of this page, last checked September 29, 2026. See the sources.

Why Indiana Would Dissolve an LLC

Indiana's Secretary of State may dissolve an LLC that is more than 60 days late paying a required fee, tax, interest or penalty or filing its biennial business entity report. It may also dissolve one that goes 60 consecutive days without a registered agent, or does not report a change or resignation of its agent or office within 60 days.

The LLC has 60 days to fix the problem before it can be administratively dissolved. The 60 days are counted after the LLC receives the Secretary of State's written notice.

How Long You Have to Reinstate

An LLC may apply within five years after the effective date of dissolution. After five years it may still apply, but the application must also state why the LLC wants reinstatement and what it intends to do if reinstated.

How to File

You file an application for reinstatement with the Indiana Secretary of State, Business Services Division. Go to Indiana's filing page.

What It Costs

The fee is $20 for an electronic filing, or $30 for a filing made in any other way.

To be reinstated, the LLC must pay all fees, taxes, interest and penalties owed to the Secretary of State when it was dissolved, and those that would have come due while it was dissolved.

Indiana requires a tax clearance from the Indiana Department of Revenue to reinstate. The Secretary of State's reinstatement page says to request the certificate of clearance by sending the Department of Revenue an Affidavit for Reinstatement (Form AD-19) and a Responsible Officer Information form (ROC-1).

Registered Agent Options

If your LLC's registered agent has changed, resigned or lapsed, ask the filing office named above whether Indianawants 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 Indiana registered agent requirements set out what Indiana itself asks.

Registered agent services for Indiana LLCs

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What Reinstatement Does

Under Indiana's law, a reinstated LLC continues as if it had never been administratively dissolved. Rights a person gained by acting in reliance on the dissolution, before knowing 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.

Worth Knowing in Indiana

If the person filing is not listed as a governing person of the LLC, the application must include a notarized affidavit, signed by a governing person or the LLC's attorney, stating that a governing person gave permission to request reinstatement.

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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 Indiana 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

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.