LLC reinstatement · Pennsylvania

How to Reinstate a Pennsylvania LLC

The short answer. Pennsylvania's administrative dissolution applies only to annual reports due on or after January 4, 2027, so a missed 2025 or 2026 annual report cannot lead to it. If your Pennsylvania LLC has been administratively dissolved, you restore it by filing an application for reinstatement with the Pennsylvania Department of State, Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations.

Pennsylvania LLC Reinstatement at a Glance

What Pennsylvania calls the statusAdministratively dissolved
What you fileApplication for Reinstatement
Filed withPennsylvania Department of State, Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations
How to fileOnline or paper
Reinstatement feeVaries (see Cost)
Time limit to reinstateNo 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 Pennsylvania Would Dissolve an LLC

Beginning with annual reports due in 2027, the Department of State may administratively dissolve an LLC that has not delivered its annual report within six months after the report was due. The statute names no other ground.

The LLC has 60 days to fix the problem before it can be administratively dissolved. The 60 days are counted after the Department of State delivers notice of its determination to the LLC's registered office and the principal office shown in its most recent annual report. The LLC avoids dissolution by filing the missing annual report, or showing that it was delivered, within the 60 days, and the dissolution cannot take effect less than 60 days after the notice.

How Long You Have to Reinstate

Pennsylvania sets no deadline: an LLC that has been administratively dissolved can apply for reinstatement at any time.

How to File

You file an application for reinstatement with the Pennsylvania Department of State, Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations. You can file it online or on paper. Go to Pennsylvania's filing page.

What It Costs

The fee is $35 for an application filed online and $40 for one filed on paper.

Unless it shows the ground never existed, the LLC attaches its most recent unfiled annual report to the application. It also pays an additional $15 for each annual report that was not previously paid.

We have not confirmed whether Pennsylvania requires a tax clearance to reinstate; check with the Pennsylvania Department of State, Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations.

What Reinstatement Does

Under Pennsylvania's law, a reinstated LLC continues as if it had never been administratively dissolved. Reinstatement does not affect the rights of a person arising from an act taken in reliance on the administrative dissolution before the reinstatement took effect.

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 Pennsylvania

An LLC's report is due by September 30, so the 2027 report is the first one whose absence can lead to dissolution, six months after it is due and after a further 60-day notice.

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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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Each entry below is a document recorded in our verified Pennsylvania 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.