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Alaska CPA License Reinstatement: What a Lapsed License Costs

If your Alaska CPA license has already lapsed

What it actually takes to get a lapsed Alaska CPA license back — the fee, the catch-up CPE, and exactly what triggers "lapsed" in the first place. Sourced the same way every fact on this site is: a board page, plus the codified rule itself where we could confirm it against primary law, clearly labelled where we could only confirm it against the board's own page, never a guess.

Verified 2026-09-12
Reinstatement Fee
$400

$300 biennial renewal fee (12 AAC 02.340(4)) plus $100 delayed-renewal penalty (12 AAC 02.340(13)), once a license has lapsed more than 60 days -- covers the common under-1-year lapse. For a longer lapse (1-3 years), the $300 renewal fee is owed for EACH lapsed biennial period, so the total scales up; a lapse of 5+ years cannot be reinstated at all.

Catch-Up CPE Required
  • 120 CPE hours For a lapse of 1+ years: 120 hours of approved CE completed in the 36 months preceding the reinstatement application (vs. the normal 80 hours/2 years) -- no more than 16 of those hours may be micro-learning. A lapse under 1 year requires no extra CE beyond normal compliance.
  • 4 ethics hours, within that total.
Source of record 12 AAC 04.440(a)-(f) (Reinstatement of Lapsed License); fee amounts at 12 AAC 02.340(4),(13); license-term backdrop at 12 AAC 04.189 read the rule →

What triggers lapsed status: Licenses are biennial, expiring December 31 of odd-numbered years regardless of issuance date. Missing that deadline lapses the license immediately; a $100 delayed-renewal penalty attaches once the lapse exceeds 60 days.

Last verified: 2026-09-12 · checked against the state's codified statute or administrative rule, not just a board webpage — if we can't verify a date against primary law, we say so instead of guessing (see how we verify every deadline). Always confirm with the official state board before relying on this date. License requirements and deadlines can change.

See Alaska's CPA license renewal deadline →

How many CPE hours does Alaska require? →

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