AR registered agent
Arkansas. $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 Arkansas 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
... that were due to the Secretary of State at the time of the company's administrative dissolution and all fees, taxes, interest, and penalties that would have been due to the Secretary of State ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ark. Code Ann. § 4-38-709(a)-(b) (LLCs); § 4-27-1422(a) (corporations)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to one or more of the governors of the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ark. Code Ann. § 4-20-113(b)
How Arkansas 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 Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under § 4-27-1421 to administratively dissolve a corporation if: ... (3) the corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ark. Code Ann. § 4-27-1420(3)-(4) (corporations); § 4-38-708(a)(3) (LLCs)
And this
... or otherwise, the name is available for use by another formed limited liability company, and the dissolved company would be required, upon reinstatement, to use a new ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ark. Code Ann. § 4-38-708(f)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under § 4-27-1531 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state if: ... (3) the foreign corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ark. Code Ann. § 4-27-1530(3)-(4) (foreign corporations); § 4-38-910(a)(3)-(4) (foreign LLCs)
The Arkansas annual report. Also skippable.
Arkansas 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
$150 each year. Every year.
... Liability Company LLC or PLLC N/A $150 $150 ONLINE ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Ark. SOS BCS Franchise Tax / Annual Report Forms page (Online Fee / Paper Fee)
Yearly report, corporation
$150 each year. Every year.
Corporations with Stock N/A Min. $150 Min. $150 ONLINE PDF
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Ark. SOS BCS Franchise Tax / Annual Report Forms 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 Arkansas code, word for word:
“Noncommercial registered agent” means a person that is not listed as a commercial registered agent under § 4-20-106 and that is: (A) an individual or a domestic or foreign entity that serves in this state as the agent for service of process of an entity ... Whenever this chapter requires that a filing state an address, the filing must state: (1) an actual street address or rural route box number in this state; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ark. Code Ann. §§ 4-20-102(13), 4-20-104; § 4-38-115 (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.