VA registered agent
Virginia. $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 Virginia 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
To have its corporate existence reinstated, the corporation shall provide the Commission with the following: ... 2. A reinstatement fee of $100; 3. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-754(B)(2)-(3); § 13.1-769.1(B)(2); § 13.1-1050.4(B)(2)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... or whenever its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office, then the clerk of the Commission shall be an agent of the corporation upon whom service ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-637(B); parallel provisions at § 13.1-1018(B) (LLC) and § 13.1-766(B) (foreign corp)
How Virginia 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
If any domestic corporation whose registered agent has filed with the Commission a statement of resignation pursuant to § 13.1-636 fails to file a statement of change pursuant to § 13.1-635 within 31 days ... the Commission shall mail notice to the corporation of the impending termination of its corporate existence. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-752(B); parallel LLC provision at § 13.1-1050.2(B)
Drained by the state
... (ii) has failed to maintain a registered office or a registered agent in this Commonwealth as required by law ... Upon termination, the properties and affairs of the corporation shall ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-753(A)(ii); parallel LLC provision at § 13.1-1050.3(A)(2)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
If any foreign corporation whose registered agent has filed with the Commission a statement of resignation pursuant to § 13.1-765 fails to file a statement of change pursuant to § 13.1-764 within 31 days ... the Commission shall mail notice to the foreign corporation of the impending revocation of its certificate of authority. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-768(C); § 13.1-769(A)(2)
Locked out of the courthouse
... Commonwealth without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in the Commonwealth until it obtains a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-758(A)
The penalty
... of authority, each officer, director, and employee who does any of such business in the Commonwealth knowing that a certificate of authority is required shall be liable for a penalty of not ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-758(D)
The Virginia annual report. Also skippable.
Virginia 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
$50 each year. Every year.
an annual registration fee of $50
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title13.1/chapter12/section13.1-1062/
Yearly report, corporation
$100 each year. Every year.
... STOCK CORPORATION: Authorized shares Fee 1 - 5,000 $ 100 ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: SCC 'Annual Corporation Requirements' / Annual Registration Fee Schedule (rev. 02/26), citing Va. Code 13.1-775.1
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 Virginia code, word for word:
2. A registered agent, who shall be: a. An individual who is a resident of the Commonwealth and (i) either an officer or director of the corporation or (ii) a member of the Virginia State Bar and whose business office is identical with the registered office; or b. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-634(A)(2) (corporations); § 13.1-1015(A)(2) (LLCs); § 13.1-763 (foreign corporations)
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.