GA registered agent
Georgia. $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 Georgia 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
... the effective date of such dissolution. The application shall: ... (5) Be ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1422(a); sec. 14-2-122(12); sec. 14-11-603(b)(4); sec. 14-11-1101(a)(16)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... State that the limited liability company failed either to maintain a registered office or appoint a registered agent in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-504(b); sec. 14-2-1510(b); sec. 14-11-209(f)
How Georgia 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 does not notify the Secretary of State within 60 days that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1420(3)-(4); sec. 14-11-603(b)(1)(B)-(C)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... does not inform the Secretary of State under Code Section 14-2-1508 or 14-2-1509 that its registered agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1530(3)-(4); sec. 14-2-1531(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... has not obtained a certificate of authority within 30 calendar days after the first day on which it transacts business in this state shall ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1502(a)-(b)
The penalty
... a foreign corporation transacting business in this state without a certificate of authority ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-122(10)
The Georgia annual report. Also skippable.
Georgia 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
$60 each year. Every year.
... of State between January 1 and April 1 of each calendar year. ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.ga.gov/how-to-guide/how-guide-register-domestic-entity
Yearly report, corporation
$60 each year. Every year.
... Corp., Professional Corp., Benefit Corp., LLC, LP, LLLP, Trust Estate) $50.00 ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: GA SOS Corporations Division Filing Fees (Rev. 8/2025, eff. 9/6/2025)
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 Georgia code, word for word:
... domestic limited liability company whose business office is identical with the registered office; or (C) ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-501; sec. 14-11-209(a)-(b)
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.