Dissolving a company in Kansas
The state-level facts for closing an LLC or corporation in Kansas: the dissolution filing, its fee, whether tax clearance comes first, and the tax obligations that keep accruing until the filing is accepted. Every fact links to the official government source it was read from.
Kansas LLC
- Dissolution filing
- Certificate of Cancellation, Domestic (Kansas) Limited Liability Company (KC) — filed with the Kansas Secretary of State. (official source)
- Filing fee
- $30 (official source)
- Tax clearance before filing
- Not required before the dissolution filing. (official source)
- Information report (Kansas annual report)
- The entity must be in good standing to file a cancellation; if delinquent, the information report must be filed before the closure document is accepted. (official source)
- Final state return
- Notify the Kansas Department of Revenue immediately when the business is closed and file returns for every period through closure, even periods with no activity. (official source)
Worth knowing
- Online filing is cheaper than paper ($30 vs $35) for cancellation, dissolution, and foreign-entity cancellation filings.
- Series LLCs pay an extra $20 per series on paper cancellations, and series cannot be cancelled online.
- A delinquent entity must file its information report, and a forfeited entity must reinstate, before any closure document will be accepted.
- Kansas uses one form (FC) for withdrawal of every foreign entity type, and calls it a Certificate of Cancellation rather than a withdrawal.
Kansas corporation
- Dissolution filing
- Certificate of Dissolution, Domestic (Kansas) Corporation (DS (after commencing business); CP (prior to commencing business)) — filed with the Kansas Secretary of State. (official source)
- Filing fee
- $30 (official source)
- Tax clearance before filing
- Not required before the dissolution filing. (official source)
- Information report (Kansas annual report)
- The corporation must be in good standing to file its dissolution; if delinquent, the information report must be filed before the closure document is accepted. (official source)
- Final state return
- File a final Kansas corporate return (K-120): enter the discontinuation date in box D and enclose the federal form stating the code section the corporation was liquidated under. (official source)
Worth knowing
- Kansas has two dissolution forms: DS after commencing business and CP for corporations that never commenced business.
- Online filing is cheaper than paper ($30 vs $35) for the for-profit certificate of dissolution.
- A delinquent corporation must file its information report, and a forfeited one must reinstate, before the dissolution will be accepted.
- All filed documents are public record and viewable online.
Closing a company is more than the state filing — payroll accounts, sales-tax permits, franchise-tax finals, federal returns, and creditor notices all have their own order and deadlines. A Winddown runbook sequences all of it for your specific company, with drafted consents and creditor notices included.
Sourced from the official pages linked above; facts we could not verify against an official source are shown as links rather than numbers. Requirements and fees change — the linked pages are authoritative. General information, not legal or tax advice.