The Corporations Division of the Arizona Corporation Commission approves the articles that create corporations and limited liability companies, grants foreign ones authority to transact business, processes every later change, terminates the right to do business of those that fall out of compliance, and keeps all of it, with copies of the filings, in a database open to the public. On January 12, 2026 that database moved to the Arizona Business Center, which replaced the older eCorp portal after a ten day shutdown over which the commission transferred its data; the notices page records both dates.
The search takes a business name with a starts with, contains or exact match setting, a business ID, a statutory agent name, a principal name, a domicile and an address type. Everything filed with the commission is a public record, and the division says plainly that the names and addresses on filed documents are viewable by anyone. For Arizona businesses by place, see the Arizona county pages.
- Ten dollars or forty five: a certificate of good standing in seven to ten business days, or produced instantly for the expedited price.
- Corporations only: annual reports at forty five dollars for profit and ten for nonprofit; limited liability companies file none.
- Nine dollars a month: the penalty on a late for profit report, with dissolution after two sixty day notices and six years to reinstate.
- Nine million old images: the microfiche record from about 1900 to 1980, digitized and free under each company document history.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Arizona's own systems: the Arizona Corporation Commission Corporations Division page, the business services questions page, the fee and payment information page, the corporations fee schedule, the limited liability company fee schedule, the notices and alerts page, the accelerated services page, the how to protect my business page, the Arizona Business Center search, the processing times page, each read on October 15, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
Three eras of records, two of them free online
The division explains on its questions page why some Arizona records appear online and others do not. Companies whose records date from about 2007 to the present have all their documents available under the document history tab. Companies from about 1900 to 1980 sit on microfiche, a collection of roughly nine million images that predates statehood, which the commission digitized with a July 2022 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and now serves free, with no fee, wait or form.
Companies from about 1981 to 2006 are on microfilm, which is not digitized and must be ordered through a Records Request Form, as must any certified copy. The division suggests calling the Records Section on 602-542-3026 when a record cannot be found.
Good standing, copies and extractions
A certificate of good standing is ordered through the online filing system for ten dollars, which the division says typically produces the document within seven to ten business days, or for forty five dollars in total, which produces it instantly. The 2026 corporations fee schedule prices uncertified copies at nothing, certified copies at five dollars plus fifty cents a page, or forty dollars plus fifty cents expedited, and any other certificate at ten dollars.
A partial database extraction, for example every company formed in one zip code in the last year, costs seventy five dollars, and a full extraction of the whole business database one thousand dollars. Serving process through the commission, available only against a corporation that has not kept a statutory agent, costs twenty five dollars with two copies of the papers and an affidavit of attempted service. Every filing fee is nonrefundable under Sections 10-122, 10-3122 and 29-3213 of the Arizona Revised Statutes, and a fee paid for one document cannot be moved to another.
The corporate annual report and the road to dissolution
Corporations file an annual report by the due date shown on their record, forty five dollars for a for profit corporation and ten dollars for a nonprofit, and may file up to ninety days early or ask for a six month extension with the fee paid up front. A for profit corporation that misses the date owes a penalty of nine dollars a month under statute; nonprofits are not penalized. The sequence after a missed report is fixed: a delinquency notice and a status of Pending Inactive, a final notice about sixty days later, and administrative dissolution about sixty days after that.
A dissolved corporation may do nothing but wind up, and may apply for reinstatement for six years from the dissolution date at one hundred dollars on top of the overdue reports, fees and penalties; after six years it must form afresh. Benefit corporations add an annual benefit report under Sections 10-2441 and 10-2442. Limited liability companies, the division repeats in two places, are not required to file annual reports at all, so an Arizona LLC record will show no report history and its standing has to be read from the filings and the status field.
Processing times and the paid fast lanes
The processing times page is updated daily and on October 15, 2026 showed twelve days of regular processing for a new corporation or LLC, six days expedited and one day under same day or next day service, with annual reports at five days regular or expedited and changes of address, officers or agent at nine days regular. Expedited processing adds thirty five dollars to the statutory fee on the schedule. The accelerated services cost four hundred dollars for a two hour examination of a document received by three in the afternoon, two hundred for same day service received before ten in the morning, and one hundred for next day service received before five, with the clock starting only once the document is complete and paid for and, where a statutory agent must accept, once the agent has done so.
The service guarantees examination by the stated time, not approval, and no preclearance is offered.
What the commission does not keep
The commission does not register or recognize a trade name or DBA. Trade names are registered with the Arizona Secretary of State for five years, and doing business as names can be recorded with the Maricopa County Recorder, so a search here for a trading name finds nothing. A name reservation with the commission holds a name for one hundred twenty days only. Bylaws are not accepted for filing and are not mailed back, so a copy of a corporation bylaws has to be asked of its officers or statutory agent.
Employer identification numbers come from the Internal Revenue Service and taxpayer numbers from the Arizona Department of Revenue, with which the commission has no association. The commission will not rate a company or regulate its conduct, a point it made after a fraudulent email invited people to check a rating on its website.
The alerts, including one from this week
The notices page carries an alert updated October 13, 2026 that a site called Arizona Business Filings is not affiliated with the commission, and that anyone filing an annual report online should confirm they are at the Arizona Business Center before paying. Earlier entries name a fraudulent certificate of good standing, with the reminder that a certificate is not required to form an LLC or corporation and costs ten dollars when it is needed, a letter from L C P S demanding ninety eight dollars for a labor law poster, an email from AzcorpCommission claiming three thousand six hundred twenty five dollars in late certificate renewal fees, a Cash App request from Azccc Corporate when the commission takes no Cash App payments, and solicitations from third party compliance and dissolution services that are legitimate businesses but not the state.
The protection page adds the policies the commission adopted on May 8, 2025: two forms of identification for anyone filing at the counter from June 16, 2025, a signing authority form for LLC owners, an authorized user program that limits who may file online on an entity, and, each January, an attestation of existence emailed to every LLC with no filing in two years, with sixty days to answer before a one hundred twenty day dissolution process begins.
The commission advises terminating a dormant company properly because bad actors reinstate abandoned ones, a form of identity theft the Arizona background check guide is a starting point for.
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