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
... the Secretary of State for reinstatement... [Fee schedule:] (16) Application for reinstatement ...
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
... Secretary of State revokes a certificate of authority or a statement of foreign registration of a foreign entity... the Secretary of State becomes an agent of the entity upon whom any such ...
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
... The corporation does not notify the Secretary of State within 60 days that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that ...
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
... authorized to transact business in this State if: ... (3) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered ...
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
... registration as a limited liability partnership, the expiration of five years after the effective date of the administrative dissolution or ...
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:
... company whose business office is identical with the registered office; or c. A foreign corporation, foreign nonprofit corporation, or foreign limited liability ...
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.