KY registered agent
Kentucky. $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 Kentucky 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
... penalty and the current fee for filing each delinquent annual report as provided for in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.7-030(1)(g)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the entity or foreign entity at ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.4-040(2)
How Kentucky 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 within sixty (60) days that its registered office or registered agent has been changed, that its registered office has been discontinued or that its registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.7-010(1)(b)-(c)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... or registered agent in this Commonwealth for sixty (60) days or more; (3) The ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-070(2)-(3)
Locked out of the courthouse
... certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-020(1)
The penalty
... day it transacts business in this Commonwealth without a certificate of authority. The Secretary of State may collect all penalties ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-020(4)
And this
... foreign entity's registered agent in any proceeding based on ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-080(4)
The Kentucky annual report. Also skippable.
Kentucky 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
$15 each year. Every year.
... annual report must be signed, dated and accompanied by a $15 filing fee.
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.ky.gov/bus/business-filings/Pages/Annual-Reports.aspx
Yearly report, corporation
$15 each year. Every year.
... Corporations (Profit and Professional Service) - Annual Report: ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Kentucky Secretary of State, Business Filings - Fees
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 Kentucky code, word for word:
... with the registered office; or 2. An entity or foreign entity qualified to transact business in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.4-010(1)(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.