DE registered agent
Delaware. $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 Delaware 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 Delaware reinstatement fee yet. We waded in without checking.
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... be the duty of the plaintiff in the event of such service to serve process and any other papers in duplicate, to notify the Secretary of State that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 321(b) [effective until Aug. 1, 2026]; see §§ 136(c), 502(d); 6 Del. C. § 18-105(b) (LLCs)
How Delaware 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
... of the period of 30 days after the filing by the registered agent of the certificate of resignation, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 136(b); see § 132(f)(4)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... period of 30 days after the filing by the registered agent of the certificate of resignation, the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 136(b); see § 132(f)(4)
And this
... period of 30 days after the filing by the registered agent of the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 6 Del. C. § 18-104(d); see § 18-104(i)(4)
The penalty
... Secretary of State on or before March 1, the corporation shall pay the sum of $200 to be recovered by adding that amount ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 502(c); see §§ 510, 502(f)
The Delaware annual report. Also skippable.
Delaware 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, corporation
$50 each year. Every year.
... or Amended Annual Report for non-exempt domestic corporations the filing fee is $50.
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://corp.delaware.gov/frtax/
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 Delaware code, word for word:
... partnership ..., a foreign limited liability company or a foreign statutory trust. ... (b)(2) A registered agent may not perform its duties or functions ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 132(a), (b); accord 6 Del. C. § 18-104(a) (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.