How to Dissolve an LLC in Wisconsin (2026)

Most states close an LLC with one filing. Wisconsin uses two: one that says the company is dissolved, and a second that says it is finished. Both go through the Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) on the same form.

What Are the Two Wisconsin Filings?

Wisconsin's LLC law, chapter 183 of the statutes, separates closing a company into two stages.

• Statement of dissolution. Filed once the members have decided to close. It tells the public the LLC is dissolved and winding up its business.
• Statement of termination. Filed after winding up is substantially complete. It records that the company is terminated.

Both use DFI Form 510, "Statement of Dissolution or Termination." You check one box per filing: dissolved, or terminated. The statute says a dissolved LLC "may" file each statement, so neither is technically mandatory. In practice, they are how the state's record and the public learn that the company is closing and then closed. Filing both is the clean way to finish.

What Does It Cost to Dissolve a Wisconsin LLC?

$20 per statement online. Wisconsin statute 183.0122 sets the fee for a statement of dissolution or termination at $20, so the full two-step process is $40 if you file online.

Paper costs more. The current Form 510 lists a $35 filing fee by mail, because DFI adds a $15 surcharge to paper filings that could have been done online. Expedited service adds $100 per filing.

Does Wisconsin Require Tax Clearance to Dissolve?

No. DFI does not ask for a tax clearance certificate to dissolve a domestic LLC. The Department of Revenue's clearance certificate is a sales and use tax document, used when a business is sold, not a condition of dissolving.

What DFI does require is that the LLC be paid up with the state. If the company is delinquent, DFI says you must pay "any and all back fees due" before the dissolution goes through. The domestic LLC annual report costs $25 online, so a few missed years adds up but is rarely large.

How Do You File Form 510?

Online is the simplest route and the cheapest. By mail, send one original with a check payable to the Department of Financial Institutions to:

State of WI-Dept. of Financial Institutions, Box 93348, Milwaukee WI 53293-0348

The form asks for very little: the LLC's exact name, which box applies, and the signature of a person authorized by the company. If the document is signed in Wisconsin, it must also name the person who drafted it. You can set a delayed effective date up to 90 days after DFI receives it.

What Is the Creditor Notice, and Should You Send It?

This is the step most guides leave out, and it is the one that protects the members after the LLC is gone.

Wisconsin lets a dissolved LLC put a deadline on claims against it. For known creditors, you send written notice, and the deadline you set must be at least 120 days after the notice takes effect. If you reject a claim, it is barred unless the creditor sues within 90 days after your rejection notice.

For everyone else, you publish a notice in a newspaper in the county where the LLC's principal office is. Claims are then barred unless someone sues within 2 years of publication.

The notices are optional. What they buy you is a window for claims that closes on a date you chose.

What Do You Close With the Department of Revenue?

Your tax accounts, separately from DFI. The Department of Revenue says to file a return for every period the business was active, file the final income or franchise tax return, and, if the LLC collected sales tax, file the final sales and use tax return within 30 days of closing and request that the account be closed in My Tax Account.

The Short Version

• Form: DFI Form 510, once to dissolve and once to terminate
• Fee: $20 each online, $35 each on paper, plus $100 if expedited
• Tax clearance: not required
• Before filing: pay any back annual report fees
• Worth doing: creditor notices, to close the window on claims

We file Wisconsin dissolutions for $99 plus the state fee at cost.