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
... of State that each ground cited in the notice of termination does not exist, and pays to the Secretary of State a reinstatement fee of $25.00 for each year it is delinquent, the secretary may ...
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
The Secretary of State shall terminate the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation if: ... (3) the foreign corporation is without a registered agent for service of process or registered office in this State; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(a)(3)-(4)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
The Secretary of State may revoke a certificate of authority of a foreign limited liability company to transact business in this State ... if: (1) the company does not: ... (B) appoint and maintain an agent for service of process as required by section 4007 of this title; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4117(a)(1)(B)-(C)
And this
... of State the foreign corporation's agent for service of process in any proceeding based on a cause of action that arose during the time the foreign corporation was authorized to transact or was ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding or raise a counterclaim, crossclaim, or affirmative defense in any court in this State until it ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.02(a); 11 V.S.A. § 4119(a)(1)
The penalty
A foreign limited liability company that transacts business in this State without a certificate of authority shall be liable to the State for: (1) a civil penalty of $50.00 for each day, not to exceed a total of $10,000.00 for each year, it transacts business in this State without a certificate of authority; ...
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:
... § 1655, whose business office is identical with the registered office.
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.