WA registered agent
Washington. $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 Washington 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
... which would have been assessed during the period of administrative dissolution had the entity been in active status, plus a penalty fee established by the secretary of state by rule, and the license ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.615(2)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
If a represented entity ceases to have a registered agent, or if its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, or by similar commercial delivery service, addressed to the entity at the entity's principal office. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.450(2)-(4)
How Washington 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
... under RCW 23.95.610 to dissolve a domestic entity administratively if: ... (3) The entity does not have a registered agent in this state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.605(3); procedure and effect at RCW 23.95.610
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
The secretary of state may terminate the registration of a registered foreign entity in the manner provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section if: ... (c) The entity does not have a registered agent as required by RCW 23.95.405; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.550(1)(c)-(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... or proceeding in this state unless it is registered to do business in this state and has paid to this state all fees and penalties for the years, or parts thereof, during which it did business in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.505(2)
And this
... in this state without a certificate of registration, in an amount equal to all fees which would have been imposed by this chapter upon the entity had it applied for and received a certificate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.505(5)
The Washington annual report. Also skippable.
Washington 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
$70 each year. Every year.
(p) Annual report Seventy dollars
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: WAC 434-112-085(7)(p)
Yearly report, corporation
$70 each year. Every year.
(p) Annual report Seventy dollars
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: WAC 434-112-085(7)(p)
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 Washington code, word for word:
... or (c) A government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality ... that serves as the registered agent of an entity.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.405; 23.95.105(22); 23.95.410; 23.95.415(1)
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.