NJ registered agent
New Jersey. $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 New Jersey 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
... current annual report fee, and all delinquent annual report fees ... In the event that in the interim the corporate name has become unavailable, the State Treasurer shall issue the certificate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-5(7)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
b. If a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company does not appoint or maintain an agent for service of process in this State or the agent for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent's street address, the filing office is an agent of the company upon whom process, notice, or demand may be served. c. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-17(b)-(c)
How New Jersey drains a company like yours
The state's own remedies for an agent that is furniture. Quoted. We added nothing, which is our specialty.
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
(1) In addition to any other ground for revocation provided by law, the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this State may be revoked by the Secretary of State upon the conditions prescribed in this section when ... (c) the corporation has failed to maintain a registered agent in this State as required by this act; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-10(1)(c)
And this
... registered agent within said 30-day period, the corporation shall thereafter be deemed to have no registered agent or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-4(3)
Locked out of the courthouse
... State without a certificate of authority shall maintain any action or proceeding in any court of this State, until such corporation shall have obtained ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-11(1)
The penalty
... shall forfeit to the State a penalty of not less than $200.00, nor more than $1,000.00 for each calendar year, not more than 5 years prior thereto, in which it shall have transacted business in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-11(3)
The New Jersey annual report. Also skippable.
New Jersey 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
$75 each year. Every year.
... Liability Company (LLC) Filing ... Annual Report ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-93 ('Upon filing of an annual report, a fee in the amount of $75.00')
Yearly report, corporation
$75 each year. Every year.
Annual Report - corporate and LP $75.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:15-2 ('for each such report required to be filed...... $75.00')
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 New Jersey code, word for word:
(3) The registered agent may be a natural person of the age of 18 years or more, or a domestic corporation or a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this State, whether or not any such agent corporation is organized for a purpose or purposes for which a corporation may be organized under this act. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-1(1), (3); N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14(c)
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.