TN registered agent
Tennessee. $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 Tennessee 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
... administrative dissolution 70.00 ... (32) Application for reinstatement following ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-11-303(a)(23), (a)(32)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... secretary of state, or whenever the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation shall have been withdrawn or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-15-104(b)
How Tennessee 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
... Corporation does not notify the secretary of state within two (2) months that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-24-201(2), (4)
Drained by the state
... The LLC does not notify the secretary of state within two (2) months that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-249-604(2), (4)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... 48-25-109 that its registered agent or registered office has ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-25-301(2)-(3)
And this
... business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-24-202(c)
The Tennessee annual report. Also skippable.
Tennessee 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
$300 each year. Every year.
... maximum of $3000. The fee increases by an additional $50 per member for every member over 6 members ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.tn.gov/businesses/faqs
Yearly report, corporation
$20 each year. Every year.
... $20, and an additional $20 is required if any change is made ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.tn.gov/businesses/faqs
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 Tennessee code, word for word:
... or (B) A foreign corporation, a not-for-profit foreign corporation, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-15-101(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.