NC registered agent
North Carolina. $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 North Carolina 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
A corporation administratively dissolved under G.S. 55-14-21 may apply to the Secretary of State for reinstatement... [Fee schedule:] (16) Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution 100.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-14-22; § 55-1-22(a)(16)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
When an entity required to maintain a registered office and registered agent under G.S. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-33(b)
How North Carolina 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
... (4) The corporation does not notify the Secretary of State within 60 days that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-14-20(3)-(4); § 55-14-21(b); § 57D-6-06(a)(3)-(4)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under G.S. 55-15-31 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 60 days or more...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-15-30(a)(3)-(4); § 55-15-31(d); § 57D-7-30(a)(3)-(4)
And this
... revocation of registration as a limited liability partnership, the expiration of five years after the effective date of the administrative ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-21(d)(2)
The North Carolina annual report. Also skippable.
North Carolina 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
$200 each year. Every year.
(28) Annual report $200.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. 57D-1-22(a)(28)
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 North Carolina code, word for word:
must continuously maintain in this State: (1) A registered office that may be the same as any of its places of business... and (2) A registered agent, who must be: a. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-30(a)
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.