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
... administrative dissolution had the entity been in active status, plus a penalty fee established by the secretary of state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.615(2)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... (4) The secretary of state shall be an agent of the entity for service of process if process, notice, or demand cannot be served on an entity pursuant to subsection (1), (2), or (3) of this section.
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
... to dissolve a domestic entity administratively if: ... (3) The entity does not have a registered agent in this state for thirty consecutive ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.605(3); procedure and effect at RCW 23.95.610
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... (d) The entity does not deliver to the secretary of state for filing a statement of change under RCW 23.95.430 if change occurs in the name or address of the entity's registered agent
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.550(1)(c)-(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... do business in this state and has paid to this state all fees and penalties for the years, or parts thereof, during which ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.505(2)
And this
... to all fees which would have been imposed by this chapter upon the entity had it applied for and received a certificate of registration ...
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 other position in an entity which is designated as the registered agent ...
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.