LLC Dissolution Fees by State — Explainer

What it costs to dissolve an LLC in each state — and why the filing fee is usually the small part. For the structured matrix with per-row sources, see Domestic LLC Dissolution Fees by State; for the difference between dissolving and withdrawing a foreign registration, see Dissolution vs. Withdrawal. Fees as of 2026-06-06. Not legal advice.

Short answer

Dissolving an LLC means filing a certificate of dissolution or cancellation with the state to end the entity on the public record, after you've wound up its affairs. The state filing fee for that document is modest — $0 to $220, and eight states charge nothing at all. The number that surprises people is not the filing fee. It's the tax step several states make you clear before they'll accept the filing.

The filing fee is not the cost to dissolve

This is the one thing worth internalizing. The fee in the table below is what the state charges to file the dissolution — nothing else. In several states the real gate is a separate tax obligation:

• Texas charges $40 to file a Certificate of Termination, but won't accept it without a Comptroller Certificate of Account Status confirming franchise taxes are paid.
• Delaware charges $220, and expects the annual franchise tax to be current before it will cancel the entity.
• New York ($60) requires tax consent from the Department of Taxation before it will accept the dissolution.

A commercial chart that shows one big “dissolution cost” is usually bundling these together. We keep them apart: the table is the filing fee, and the note tells you where a tax step is waiting behind it.

A few states charge by how you file

Three states price the same filing two ways, by submission method. Indiana charges $20 to dissolve electronically and $30 on paper (IC 23-0.5-9-22). Wisconsin is $20 online and $35 on paper. In both, filing online is the cheaper path — the state is charging for the manual handling of paper. Minnesota runs the other way: $35 by mail, but $55 online or in person. The takeaway is not “always file online” — it is that the channel moves the price, and which channel is cheaper is state-specific. The table shows each state's standard line with the alternative noted.

Dissolution filing fee by state (domestic LLC)

The $0 states

California, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Maryland, Montana, Utah, and Washington don't charge a filing fee for the dissolution document itself — confirmed in each state's own fee schedule. Nebraska looks like a ninth, but its no-fee line is carried from a 2021 notice and turns on a dissolution-vs-termination distinction we have flagged for re-confirmation, so we hold it with a caveat rather than count it. Read the zeros precisely: the filing is free. Winding up the business, paying final taxes, and any franchise or annual obligations are separate and still apply. A $0 here is a real, sourced zero — not a missing value.

The blanks are deliberate

Three jurisdictions — Kansas, Ohio, and South Carolina — don't publish a dissolution filing fee we could confirm against a primary state source, so those rows read “not established” rather than a number copied from a third-party chart. A blank is not $0 and it is not an oversight — it is the absence of a source we were willing to stand behind. Confirm those three directly with the state.

How these numbers are sourced

Each fee is read off the state's own fee schedule or filing form and backed by a captured snapshot, so any row can be re-checked. Where a state's schedule lists fees by entity type, we bind to the domestic-LLC line — not the corporation line beside it. Full method at /about/methodology/; source taxonomy at /about/source-registry/.

Not legal advice

Dissolution sequencing — final tax returns, member approval, creditor notice, and the order in which you file — is state-specific and consequential. This page is structured reference, not counsel. Confirm against the state source before you file.

See also: Domestic LLC Dissolution Fees by State (matrix) · Dissolution vs. Withdrawal · Administrative dissolution & reinstatement