What happens if your Kansas LLC misses its business entity information report, and how to reinstate it
Kansas’s own word for it: “Forfeited”. Time limit to get back: None in statute. Tax clearance: No.
Checked against the Kansas Secretary of State, September 2026.
- What Kansas calls it
- “Forfeited”
- Tax clearance
- No
- Time limit to get back
- None in statute
How it unfolds in Kansas
- MissedBusiness entity information report
- Status“Forfeited”
- The way backCertificate of Reinstatement, Form RL
Kansas Secretary of State
What does Kansas call a company that missed its filings?
“forfeited”: the LLC’s articles of organization are “forfeited” (or “canceled” in some agent-related provisions). The Secretary of State describes a certificate of reinstatement as changing a business’s status “from forfeited to active and in good standing”.
What triggers it in Kansas?
(1) Not filing the business entity information report or paying its fee within 90 days after the April 15 due date. The report is now due every two years (even or odd years, matching the formation year). (2) Not keeping a Kansas resident agent and registered office: if the resident agent dies or moves and no new agent is named within 30 days, the Secretary of State may declare the articles forfeited after 30 days’ notice; if the agent resigns and no successor is named within 60 days after the resignation is filed, the Secretary of State declares the organizing documents forfeited.
Before it happens
For a missed report, the Secretary of State mails a notice within 60 days after the due date warning that the articles will be forfeited unless the report is filed and the fee paid within 90 days of the due date. Forfeiture follows automatically if they are not. For a missing resident agent after death or a move, the Secretary of State gives 30 days’ notice before declaring forfeiture.
How do you reinstate a Kansas LLC?
Certificate of Reinstatement — Limited Liability Company, Limited Liability Partnership, or Limited Partnership (SOS Form RL). It must be submitted together with an Information Report (Form ILC) for each missed reporting year and all fees; documents cannot be submitted separately. The SOS reinstatement page offers these as paper forms.
Where to file
Kansas Secretary of State, Business Services Division.
Missed filings and fees
Yes. The LLC must pay the business entity information report fees for all past-due reports for the immediately preceding 10 years (the SOS says at most the last 10 years, i.e. 5 reporting years) and all fees and any penalties due, and must file the missing information reports with the certificate of reinstatement.
Is there a deadline to reinstate a Kansas LLC?
No deadline in the statute. K.S.A. 17-76,146 sets no time limit for reinstatement, but back report fees are capped at the immediately preceding 10 years.
Do you need tax clearance in Kansas?
No
No tax clearance is required. K.S.A. 17-76,146 and SOS Form RL require only the certificate, the past-due reports and payment of Secretary of State fees and penalties. Neither mentions a Department of Revenue clearance.
What happens to the company name meanwhile?
No reservation during forfeiture. If the name is not available at reinstatement, the certificate must state the name under which the LLC will be reinstated. For a domestic LLC whose name is in use, the SOS offers two options: file a Written Consent to Use of Similar Business Name (Form CN, K.S.A. 17-7918) from the current holder, or reinstate under a new name.
What changes once it is fixed?
On filing, the LLC (and each series not wound up) is reinstated with the same force and effect as if its articles had not been forfeited. Contracts and acts done during the forfeiture period are validated, property vests back in the LLC, and the LLC is exclusively liable for acts done in its name during forfeiture as if the articles had remained in full force. The certificate of reinstatement also serves as an amendment to the articles of organization.
What changes for corporations in Kansas?
Corporations use a different term and form. A forfeited or void corporation is revived, not reinstated: it files a Certificate of Revival (SOS Form RR) under K.S.A. 17-7002, authorized by its board, ‘at any time’. The revival does not apply to articles revoked or forfeited by court action under K.S.A. 17-6812. As with LLCs, a corporation must file past-due business entity information reports for the preceding 10 years (nonprofits only the most recent period) and pay fees and penalties, and must revive under a different name if its name has been taken. Corporations also file a biennial business entity information report (K.S.A. 17-7503), with forfeiture under 17-7510 on the same 90-day timetable.
What should you file first?
There is no separate tax clearance step for a Kansas LLC, so the filing comes first, with the missed filings and fees described above.
The filing
Certificate of Reinstatement, Form RL
Where it goes
Kansas Secretary of State, Business Services Division.
What does Kansas ask you to file, so it does not happen again?
| Obligation | Form | Due | If late |
|---|---|---|---|
| LLC formation (Articles of Organization) | Articles of Organization — Limited Liability Company (Form LAO) | At formation | N/A |
| Business entity information report | Business Entity Information Report (filed online through the Secretary of State’s portal) | Every other year, matching the year you filed formation documents: even-year entities file in even years, odd-year entities in odd years. For-profit entities file by April 15; not-for-profit entities file by June 15 | After a three-month delinquency period the business forfeits, and it cannot file anything else with the Secretary of State until the past due reports are filed and the entity is reinstated |
| Change of resident agent or registered office | Certificate of Amendment to the Resident Agent (Form ROA), filed by the business — an agent changing its own record files Form RGO instead | When the agent or registered office changes, and within thirty days if the agent dies or moves from the registered office | Failure to designate a replacement within thirty days can lead to forfeiture after notice under K.S.A. 17-7926 |
From the same Kansas record as the Kansas resident agent page. State fees change; we confirm current amounts with you before anything is filed.
Put every recurring Kansas deadline in your calendar with the compliance calendar, or see what Kansas requires of your resident agent.
Which Kansas laws govern it?
K.S.A. 17-76,139(g) (forfeiture for failure to file the business entity information report, applying K.S.A. 17-7509 and 17-7510(a)); K.S.A. 17-7926(b) and 17-7929(b) (forfeiture for resident agent failures); K.S.A. 17-76,146 (reinstatement of canceled or forfeited articles of organization).
Sources, checked September 2026:
- Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes (K.S.A.)— K.S.A. 17-76,139, 17-76,146, 17-7510, 17-7926, 17-7929
- Kansas Secretary of State, Business Services— K.S.A. 17-76,139(g), 17-76,146; SOS Reinstate a Business page
- Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes (K.S.A.)— K.S.A. 17-76,139(b),(g); 17-7510(a); 17-7926(b); 17-7929(b)
- Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes (K.S.A.)— K.S.A. 17-7510(a) (applied to LLCs by 17-76,139(g)); 17-7926(b)
- Kansas Secretary of State, Business Services— K.S.A. 17-76,146(a); SOS Form RL instructions; Reinstate a Business page
- Kansas Secretary of State, Business Services— SOS Reinstate a Business page
- Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes (K.S.A.)— K.S.A. 17-76,146; Form RL instructions
- Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes (K.S.A.)— K.S.A. 17-76,146(a); SOS Reinstate a Business page
- Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes (K.S.A.)— K.S.A. 17-76,146(a)(1); Form RL instructions
- Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes (K.S.A.)— K.S.A. 17-76,146
- Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes (K.S.A.)— K.S.A. 17-76,146(b)-(c)
- Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes (K.S.A.)— K.S.A. 17-7002(b),(f),(g); 17-7503; 17-7510; SOS Reinstate a Business page
Checked against the Kansas Secretary of State and the statutes above · Last checked September 2026. Not legal advice: the filing office has the final word on your entity.
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