CT registered agent
Connecticut. $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 Connecticut 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
... (C) an up-to-date statement or statements from the Commissioner of Revenue Services and the administrator of the unemployment compensation law ...; and (D) an appointment of a registered agent.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-892(a); fees: § 33-617(a)(15), § 34-243u(a)(11); LLC: § 34-267b(b)(3)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
If a corporation has no registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the corporation may be served by any proper officer or other person lawfully empowered to make service by sending a true and attested copy of the process, notice or demand by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary of the corporation at its principal office. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-663(b); accord § 34-243r(c) (LLCs)
How Connecticut 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
... corporation ... Unless the corporation within three months of the mailing of such notice files an appointment of registered agent, the Secretary of the State shall prepare and file in his office ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-890(c); effect: § 33-891
Drained by the state
... of the sending of such notice, files an appointment of a registered agent for service, the Secretary of the State shall prepare and file in his office a certificate of dissolution by forfeiture ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-267g(c); effect: § 34-267g(f)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
The Secretary of the State may commence a proceeding under section 33-936 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 or registered office in this state for sixty days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-935
The Connecticut annual report. Also skippable.
Connecticut 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
$80 each year. Every year.
... any year prior to July 1, 2020, twenty dollars, and (B) concerning any year on or after July 1, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. sec. 34-243u(a)
Yearly report, corporation
$150 each year. Every year.
... one hundred fifty dollars except as otherwise provided in sections ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. sec. 33-617(a)(12)
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 Connecticut code, word for word:
... (C) a foreign corporation which has procured a certificate of authority to transact business or conduct its affairs in this state; (D) a domestic limited liability company; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-660(a); accord § 34-243n(b), (e) (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.