VT registered agent
Vermont. $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 Vermont 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
... does not exist, and pays to the Secretary of State a reinstatement fee of $25.00 for each year it ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(e); 11A V.S.A. § 1.22(d); 11 V.S.A. § 4012(a)(17)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Vermont keeps its fallback service rule somewhere deeper than we go.
How Vermont drains a company like yours
The state's own remedies for an agent that is furniture. Quoted. We added nothing, which is our specialty.
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... (4) the foreign corporation fails to inform the Secretary of State under section 15.08 or 15.09 of this title that its registered agent for service of process or registered office has changed
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(a)(3)-(4)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... as required by section 4007 of this title; or (C) deliver for filing a statement of change under section 4008 of this title ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4117(a)(1)(B)-(C)
And this
... in any proceeding based on a cause of action that arose during the time the foreign corporation was authorized to ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... maintain a proceeding or raise a counterclaim, crossclaim, or affirmative ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.02(a); 11 V.S.A. § 4119(a)(1)
The penalty
... each year, it transacts business in this State without a certificate of authority; (2) an amount equal to the fees due under this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4119(e)(1)-(2)
The Vermont annual report. Also skippable.
Vermont 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
$45 each year. Every year.
Annual report of a domestic limited liability company $45.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4012
Yearly report, corporation
$60 each year. Every year.
(17) Annual report of a domestic corporation $60.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 1.22(a)(17)
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 Vermont code, word for word:
... of its places of business; and (2) a registered agent for service of process pursuant to 11 V.S.A. § 1655, whose business office is identical with the registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 5.01; 11 V.S.A. § 4007
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.