SC registered agent
South 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 South 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
Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution $25.00. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-1-220(a)(16); § 33-14-220(a)(4)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... 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 address, the Secretary of State is an agent of the company ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-44-111(b)
How South 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 Secretary of State shall commence a proceeding under Section 33-14-210(a) to dissolve a corporation administratively if: ... (3) the corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this State; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-14-200(a)(3)-(4)
And this
... existence but may not carry on any business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under Section 33-14-105 and notify claimants under ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-14-210(b), (d)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
The Secretary of State shall commence a proceeding under Section 33-15-310 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; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-15-300(a)(3)-(4)
Locked out of the courthouse
... this State without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this State until it obtains a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-15-102(a)
The penalty
A foreign corporation is liable for a civil penalty of ten dollars for each day but not to exceed a total of one thousand dollars for each year it transacts business in this State without a certificate of authority. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-15-102(d)
The South Carolina annual report. Also skippable.
Yearly report, LLC
South Carolina charges no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. Nothing to skip. The bowl is empty.
... and associations are not subject to the annual report or the License Fee: A Limited Liability Company (LLC) not ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: SCDOR Corporate FAQs (annual report / License Fee exemptions)
Yearly report, corporation
South Carolina charges no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. Nothing to skip. The bowl is empty.
... submit the names of directors on Annual Reports filed with the ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: SC SOS FAQs About Business Entities #14
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 South Carolina code, word for word:
Each corporation must continuously maintain in this State: (1) a registered office that may be the same as any of its places of business; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-5-101
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.