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
... and penalties that were due before the corporation ceased to exist and that would have been assessed or imposed to the date of reinstatement if the ...
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
... diligence be found at the registered office, then the clerk of the Commission shall be an agent of the corporation upon whom service may be made in accordance with § 12.1-19.1.
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
... corporation fails to file the statement of change before the last day of the second month immediately following the month in which the impending termination notice was mailed, the corporate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-752(B); parallel LLC provision at § 13.1-1050.2(B)
Drained by the state
... office or a registered agent in this Commonwealth as required by law ... Upon termination, the properties and affairs of the corporation shall pass automatically to its directors as ...
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
... the last day of the second month immediately following the month in which the impending revocation notice was mailed, the corporation ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-768(C); § 13.1-769(A)(2)
Locked out of the courthouse
... certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-758(A)
The penalty
... of such business in the Commonwealth knowing that a certificate of authority is required shall ...
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.
... SCHEDULE ... STOCK CORPORATION: Authorized shares Fee 1 - 5,000 $ 100 ... over ...
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:
... corporation, limited liability company, or registered limited liability partnership ...
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.