Alaska

A corporation (and an LLC, under materially identical language in AS 10.50.055) must continuously maintain an in-state registered agent and registered office. The agent may be an individual Alaska resident whose business office is the same as the registered office, or a domestic or foreign CORPORATION authorized to transact business in Alaska with the same business office. Note: both the corporation and LLC statutes list only individuals and corporations as eligible agents; LLCs are not listed. Foreign corporations: AS 10.06.753.

Consent required: no.

If the entity fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office, the commissioner (Department of Commerce) becomes the entity's agent for service; the serving party pays a regulation-set fee and must also send notice and the papers to the entity by certified mail. Identical mechanism for LLCs (AS 10.50.065(b)) and for foreign corporations, including those whose authority is suspended or revokedRevocation / administrative dissolutionThe state involuntarily ending an entity's authority to do business - for missed annual reports, a lapsed registered agent, or unpaid fees.Read the full entry → (AS 10.06.765).

• Administrative Dissolution. The commissioner may involuntarily dissolve a corporation (or LLC) that has failed for 30 days to appoint and maintain a registered agent, or failed for 30 days after a change to file a statement of change - after written notice and a 60-day contest/cure window. On issuance of the certificate of involuntary dissolution the entity's existence ceases, and its name becomes available to others six months after dissolution.
• ReinstatementReinstatementRestoring an entity the state revoked or administratively dissolved for missed filings - typically back-filing reports, paying accrued fees and penalties, and filing an application.Read the full entry → Fee. Reinstatement is available only within two years of involuntary dissolution and, where there was cause, requires correcting the failure and paying double the amount delinquent plus the amounts that would have accrued during dissolution (same formula for LLCs, AS 10.50.408(e)).
• Revocation Foreign. A foreign corporation's certificate of authorityCertificate of authorityPermission for an entity formed in one state to do business in another - the 'foreign' registration.Read the full entry → may be revoked by the commissioner for failure to appoint and maintain a registered agent or to file a statement of change after a change of registered office or agent.

Filing officeFiling officeThe agency that keeps the business register.Read the full entry →

Dept. of Commerce, Community & Economic Development - Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing (business name registration, AS 10.35)

State fee

$25 registration [fee amount UNVERIFIED this session - AS 10.35.060 says fee is 'established by the department by regulation'; the division's published fee is $25 but commerce.alaska.gov is bot-blocked]

Term

Effective through the close of the 5th calendar year beginning with the year of initial registration (AS 10.35.060 - first partial year counts as a full year)

Renewal

Renewable every 5 years; renewal application may only be filed Oct 1 - Dec 31 and extends registration for the following 5 calendar years (AS 10.35.070); renewal fee set by regulation (~$25, unverified)

Publication

Not required. No newspaper publicationPublication requirementA few states require newly formed or registered entities to publish a notice in designated newspapers (New York's LLC publication is the expensive example) - a real cost of formation that fee tables usually omit.Read the full entry → requirement

Online filing

Available

The regime

Alaska has no mandatory general DBA act. AS ch. 10.35 lets a person conducting an unincorporated business voluntarily register its business name with the state ('may register'), provided the name is distinguishable on the department's records; the chapter expressly does not abrogate rights between persons who have not registered.

Where it is filed

Registration is made by filing an application with the commissioner of commerce, community, and economic development (Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development) - a state-level filing, not a local one.

Term and renewal

Effective until the close of the fifth calendar year beginning with the year of initial registration (the initial year counts as a full year).

Name restrictions

A name is not available if it is not distinguishable on the department's records from organized entities and reserved or registered names, or if it gives the impression that the business is incorporated.

Assumed names for registered entities

A foreign corporation applying for a certificate of authority whose name is impermissible under AS 10.06.720 (missing corporate designator, misleading purpose words, municipality words, or unavailable under AS 10.06.105(d)) must select an acceptable assumed nameDBA / fictitious nameA name a business operates under that is not its legal name - 'doing business as.' Also: assumed name, trade name, fictitious business name.Read the full entry → to do business in Alaska; the commissioner cross-references actual and assumed names.

Official source

www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/cbpl/BusinessLicensing/BusinessNameRegistration.aspx↗ (opens the official source)

What it is called

not captured

Administering agency

DCCED - Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing (Alaska has no Secretary of StateSOSSecretary of State - the default filing office in most states, and shorthand throughout this site for whichever agency keeps the business register.Read the full entry →); collected with the biennial report

Corporation minimum

not recorded separately

How it is computed

Alaska levies no annual franchise taxFranchise taxA recurring tax on the privilege of existing as an entity in a state - not a tax on franchising a business.Read the full entry →; the analog is the BIENNIAL CORPORATION TAX, AS 10.06.845(a): flat $100 (domestic corporation) or $200 (foreign corporation) per two-year period, due before January 2 of the corporation's even/odd filing year and collected with the biennial report. No brackets, no cap, no base - flat per-entity amounts. Nonprofits exempt (AS 10.06.845(c), pay only the $25 report fee). LLCs are NOT subject to the AS 10.06.845 tax (their $100/$200 biennial amount is a regulation-set filing fee under AS 10.50.850). Late: 10% of the tax penalty for late report (AS 10.06.815) + $25 per year or part-year of tax delinquency (AS 10.06.845(a)); while delinquent the corporation may not commence suit in Alaska courts (AS 10.06.848).