AZ registered agent
Arizona. $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 Arizona 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
The climb-out fee
... and penalties that were due to the commission at the time of the company's administrative dissolution and all fees and penalties that would have been due to the commission while the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 29-3709(A), (E); § 10-1422(A); § 10-122(A)(13); § 29-3213(A)(12)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... If service is made on the commission, whether under this chapter or a rule of court, the corporation has thirty days to respond in addition to the time otherwise provided by law.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-504(B) (corporations); § 29-3119(B)-(C) (LLCs)
How Arizona drains a company like yours
The state's own remedies for an agent that is furniture. Quoted. We added nothing, which is our specialty.
Drained by the state
... The corporation does not notify the commission within sixty days that its statutory agent or known place of business has been changed, that its statutory agent has resigned or that its principal office has been discontinued.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1420(3)-(4), § 10-1421; § 29-3708(A)(2), (4) (LLCs)
And this
... date of the dissolution, the commission shall release the corporate name for use in accordance with chapters 1 through 17 of this title or by a person intending to register the name as a trade name ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1421(C); § 29-3709(B) (LLCs)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... The foreign corporation does not inform the commission that its statutory agent or known place of business has changed or that its statutory agent has resigned within sixty days after the change or resignation.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1530(3)-(4); § 10-1531
The Arizona annual report. Also skippable.
Arizona sends a bill every year to keep your company listed. Here is the bill. Not paying it is a saving of the exact kind we are.
Yearly report, LLC
Arizona charges no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. Nothing to skip. The bowl is empty.
Do LLCs file annual reports? No, LLCs are not required to file annual reports. Only corporations are required to file annual reports.
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Arizona Corporation Commission, Business Services FAQs, 'Annual Reports' Q1 (also LLC section Q17)
Yearly report, corporation
$45 each year. Every year.
Annual Report – For-profit corporation $45.00 $80.00
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://azcc.gov/docs/default-source/corps-files/fee-schedules/fee-schedule-corporations6def4cc74b1a47129d16c2b1c3851bda.pdf
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 Arizona code, word for word:
... A known place of business that may be the address of its statutory agent. 2. A statutory agent who may be either: (a) An individual who resides in this state. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-501 (corporations); § 29-3115(B) (LLCs)
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.