Corporation Reinstatement and Revival Requirements in Alaska

At a glance

Requirements one by one

Start with the certificate date and dissolution ground

Alaska Stat. § 10.06.633(a) lists the commissioner-driven defaults covered by this route. They include six-month biennial-report or tax delinquency, a 30-day registered-agent or office default, an unfinished voluntary-dissolution election, an unfilled board vacancy, a material misrepresentation, and a late officer, director, affiliate, or five-percent-owner change notice. The commissioner's certificate states the dissolution date and reason. That date starts the two-year reinstatement period.

The cure must satisfy the commissioner. Show that the asserted cause did not exist, or correct every neglect, omission, delinquency, or noncompliance named in the record. The statute does not prescribe a universal application field list. Alaska Stat. § 10.06.868 instead says the commissioner furnishes forms on request and that an optional form is not mandatory unless the chapter makes it so. Current Corporations Section guidance begins the review by email with the entity name and Alaska entity number.

Obtain the state's cure calculation

The reinstatement formula has two parts: pay double the amount delinquent, then add what the corporation would have paid had it remained in existence during the dissolution period. The ordinary domestic biennial corporation tax is $100, and Alaska Stat. § 10.06.845 adds a $25 penalty for each year or part of a year of tax delinquency. The agency calculation should control the payment amount because the underlying default and elapsed reporting periods vary by corporation.

Correct the name and registered-agent record when needed

If another entity has taken the former name, reinstatement cannot be authorized under that name. The corporation must amend its articles to adopt a compliant, available name.

When an agent or office failure caused dissolution, correct that record as part of the cure. Alaska Stat. § 10.06.165 requires the corporation-filed change statement to identify the corporation, old and new office information, and old and new agent as applicable. The president or a vice-president signs, and the statement recites that the board authorized the change by resolution. That approval rule belongs to the agent-change filing; § 10.06.633(e) itself does not prescribe a reinstatement-specific board or shareholder vote.

File through the Corporations Section

The Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development administers the route through the commissioner and Corporations Section. Begin with the current email request, then follow the office's entity-specific instructions for cure records and payment. A document filed under Alaska's corporation code that has no more specific charge costs $25 under 3 AAC 16.030(b). If the commissioner offers expedited filing, 3 AAC 16.105 adds $150 and gives the filing priority over ordinary submissions.

What trips people up

Ordinary reinstatement has no express relation-back clause

The ordinary rule in Alaska Stat. § 10.06.633(e) says the corporation may be “reinstated,” but it does not say existence continued as though dissolution had never occurred or validate every interim act. Current § 10.06.960(k) expressly supplies those stronger effects for an Alaska Native village corporation, a special route outside this survey. Do not transfer that exception to an ordinary business corporation when evaluating a gap-period contract, lawsuit, property issue, license, deadline, or possible personal liability.

Later tax and license defaults remain separate

Section 10.06.633(f) says reinstatement does not relieve the corporation from a penalty or forfeiture of powers for later-accruing licenses and taxes. Acceptance of the reinstatement therefore is not a blanket clearance for every other state account or regulatory license.

Common questions

Can an ordinary corporation file after two years?

Not under Alaska Stat. § 10.06.633(e). The current anytime route in § 10.06.960(k) is limited to an Alaska Native village corporation and does not extend the ordinary business-corporation deadline.

Is a name change always required?

No. It is required for reinstatement only if the former name is no longer available for corporate use. Check availability before preparing the cure.

Must the reinstatement request be notarized?

Section 10.06.633(e) states no oath, acknowledgment, or notarization rule for the ordinary reinstatement request. A separate cure document may have its own signature requirements, so use the current document supplied or identified by the Corporations Section.

Statutes and sources

• Alaska Stat. § 10.06.633(a), (d)-(f), current official text accessed 2026-08-02: grounds, certificate, two-year cure and payment formula, name amendment, and later license/tax limitation.
• Alaska Stat. § 10.06.165(a), current official text accessed 2026-08-02: registered-office and agent change contents, signature, and board-resolution recital.
• Alaska Stat. §§ 10.06.805, .811, .845, current official text accessed 2026-08-02: biennial report timing, domestic tax, and tax-delinquency penalty.
• Alaska Stat. § 10.06.868, current official text accessed 2026-08-02: forms furnished on request and optional-form rule.
• Alaska Stat. § 10.06.960(k), current official text accessed 2026-08-02: excluded Native-village exception and its express gap-period effects.
• 3 AAC 16.030(b) and 16.105, current official agency publication accessed 2026-08-02: general other-document and optional expedite charges.
• Alaska Division of Corporations reinstatement guidance, accessed 2026-08-02: initial email request and identifying information.