AL registered agent
Alabama. $7 a year. Shallow end.
The rule is at the bottom of this page. We start with the bill, because that is the part that gets wet first. Every Alabama company names an agent with a real address in the state. We have the address. We keep a bowl at it.
The bill to climb back out
incFACTS has not verified a Alabama reinstatement fee yet. We waded in without checking.
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... may be served with any other notice or demand required or permitted ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-5.35
How Alabama drains a company like yours
The state's own remedies for an agent that is furniture. Quoted. We added nothing, which is our specialty.
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... (3) the foreign entity does not file a statement of change of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-7.12(2)-(3)
Locked out of the courthouse
... this state, but the foreign entity shall not maintain any action or proceeding in any court of this state until it has delivered to the Secretary of State for filing an application for ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-7.22(a)
The Alabama annual report. Also skippable.
Yearly report, LLC
Alabama charges no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. Nothing to skip. The bowl is empty.
... will no longer be filed with the Business Privilege Tax return. ... Domestic For-Profit Corporations, Foreign For-Profit Corporations, ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: ALDOR Notice: Important Changes to the 2024 Business Privilege Tax Filing Requirements
Yearly report, corporation
Alabama charges no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. Nothing to skip. The bowl is empty.
... in Alabama are no longer required by law to file an annual report with the ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: AL SOS Business Entities page
Do we do that
We are the bowl. The bowl does not do things.
The rule, at the bottom where we left it
What the state asks
The Alabama code, word for word:
... (3) must maintain a business office at the same address as the entity’s registered office; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-5.31(b)-(c) (as amended by Act 2026-495, effective Aug. 1, 2026)
The quoted text was captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and checked against the code on 2026-08-10. Laws move. Puddles do not.