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
... South Carolina Department of Revenue reciting that all taxes, penalties, and interest owed ...
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
... 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 corporation does not notify the Secretary of State that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-14-200(a)(3)-(4)
And this
... except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-14-210(b), (d)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... the foreign corporation does not inform the Secretary of State under Section 33-15-108 or 33-15-109 that its registered agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-15-300(a)(3)-(4)
Locked out of the courthouse
... a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this State until it ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-15-102(a)
The penalty
... one thousand dollars for each year it transacts business in this State without a certificate ...
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.
... 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 Department of Revenue.
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:
... domestic corporation or not-for-profit domestic corporation whose business office is identical with the registered office; or (iii) a foreign corporation or ...
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.