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Alaska is a biennial state: your LLC files a report every other year, and which year is yours depends on when you organized. AS 10.50.760(a) puts it plainly — an LLC that filed articles of organization in an even-numbered year files in even-numbered years; an odd-year LLC files in odd-numbered years. The report is due before January 2 of the filing year and becomes delinquent if not filed before February 1. The fee for a domestic LLC is $100, or $137.50 once the $37.50 late fee attaches on or after February 2 (Division of Corporations, Biennial Report FAQs). Filing opens early — October 2 of the prior year — which is the single most useful fact on this page, because the due date itself lands in the dead-zone between Christmas and New Year's.
The part almost nobody plans for is what happens on the far side of a miss. Alaska's reinstatement window is two years. Its name-release rule runs at six months. Those two clocks are set by the same statute, and they do not agree.
| Item | Alaska LLC |
|---|---|
| What's due | Biennial Report with the Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing (AS 10.50.760, required by AS 10.50.750). You may update officials/ownership in it — but not your registered agent |
| When | Before January 2, every other year — even-year formations file in even years, odd-year formations in odd years (§ 10.50.760(a)). Filing opens October 2 of the prior year |
| Initial report | A separate, free filing due within six months after original organization (§ 10.50.760(d)); domestic LLCs only. It does not replace the biennial report |
| Fee | $100 domestic / $200 foreign |
| Delinquent | February 1 (§ 10.50.760(a)). A report postmarked on or before February 1 counts as timely (§ 10.50.760(b)) |
| Late fee | +$37.50 domestic ($137.50 total) on or after February 2; +$47.50 foreign ($247.50) |
| 6 months delinquent | Ground for involuntary dissolution by the commissioner (AS 10.50.408(a)(1)) — but only after written notice and a 60-day window to contest (§ 10.50.408(b)) |
| Name released | Six months after dissolution, your name is available for another company to adopt (§ 10.50.408(d)) |
| Reinstatement | Within two years of the certificate of involuntary dissolution, at double the delinquent amount plus what you would have paid during those two years — and only if the name is still distinguishable (§ 10.50.408(e)) |
A biennial deadline is the easiest kind to forget. EntityMinder tracks which parity year is yours, opens the reminder when Alaska's window opens on October 2, and does the same for every other state you hold entities in.
Get deadline reminders →Read AS 10.50.408 in order and the conflict is unmistakable. Subsection (d) says that once the commissioner issues the certificate of involuntary dissolution, the company's existence ceases and its name "shall be available to use and may be adopted by another company on a date that is six months or later after the dissolution." Subsection (e) then gives you two years to reinstate — but closes with the catch: "Reinstatement may not be authorized if the name of the company is not distinguishable upon the records of the department … unless the company being reinstated amends its articles of organization to change its name."
So months 0–6 after dissolution are safe: your name is locked and reinstatement restores you as you were. From month 6 to month 24, you still hold the statutory right to reinstate, but somebody else can take your name at any moment — and if they do, the price of exercising that right is giving up the name. For a company whose name is on signage, contracts, a domain, a liquor or contractor's license, or the side of a truck, that is not a paperwork inconvenience; it is the loss of the thing the reinstatement was for. The practical rule: if you are dissolved in Alaska, the deadline that actually matters is six months, not two years.
The money side has its own sting. Reinstatement under (e) requires "payment made of double the amount delinquent along with the amount the company would have paid had it not been dissolved during the two-year period" — so a $100 report you skipped does not come back as $137.50. It comes back as double the delinquency plus the cycles that ran while you were dissolved. Compare Nebraska's flat $500-after-five-years reinstatement or Michigan's quiet name release: Alaska's is the multiplier version of the same lesson.
The notice you are counting on may never reach you. Alaska cannot dissolve without notice — but § 10.50.408(f) defines "notice" as a waterfall of attempts, not a promise that any of them reaches you. The commissioner first sends certified mail to the registered office address on file. If that comes back, first-class mail to the registered agent. If that comes back, first-class mail to the manager or managing member if one is on record. If that comes back — the commissioner "is not required to mail the item again." And if two addresses on file are identical, the statute excuses the duplicate mailing entirely. Every rung of that ladder runs on addresses you maintain. A stale registered-agent address does not buy you more time; it burns your only warning.
Because the notice waterfall depends on the registered agent record, the obvious fix is to update it. But the Division is explicit that registered agent information cannot be changed inside the biennial report — the only instrument that works is a separate Statement of Change form (Biennial Report FAQs, item 5). Owners routinely discover this at the worst moment: an entity flagged non-compliant for returned agent mail cannot file the biennial report online at all and must submit the report on paper together with the Statement of Change. If your agent has moved, resigned, or stopped forwarding mail, fix that in October — not on December 30.
Entity status and business licensing are separate tracks in Alaska, and the Division warns that the status of your entity "may directly affect your business license." An LLC in good standing with an expired Alaska Business License is not authorized to do business; an LLC with a current business license and an unfiled biennial report is on the dissolution ladder anyway. Two filings, two calendars, one company. This is the same two-track pattern as California's Statement of Information sitting alongside the separate franchise tax — the difference being that in Alaska both tracks live inside the same division, which makes owners assume, wrongly, that one filing covers both.
If you've already missed a deadline here or in another state, the general late-fee → good-standing → dissolution → reinstatement sequence is mapped in what happens if you miss an LLC annual report. For the other biennial states with a shared statewide cycle, see Iowa and Nebraska — both put every LLC in the state on the same odd-year rhythm, where Alaska splits the state in half by formation year. Every state's due date and fee is in the 50-state deadline lookup.