WV registered agent
West 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 West 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
incFACTS has not verified a West Virginia reinstatement fee yet. We waded in without checking.
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent's address, the Secretary of State is an agent of the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31B-1-111(b); see also § 31D-5-504(b)-(c)
How West 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
... its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-14-1420(a)(2)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... its registered agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has resigned or that its registered office has been discontinued within sixty ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-15-1530(2)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... File a statement of a change in the name or business address of the agent as required by this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31B-10-1006(a)(1)(iii)
Locked out of the courthouse
... certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any circuit court in this state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-15-1502(a)
And this
... years after the effective date of dissolution. The application must: ... (4) Contain a certificate from the Tax Commissioner reciting that all taxes owed by the corporation have been paid.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-14-1422(a)
The West Virginia annual report. Also skippable.
West 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
$25 each year. Every year.
... annual report fee of $25 for the services of the Secretary of State as attorney-in-fact
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://code.wvlegislature.gov/59-1-2A/
Yearly report, corporation
$25 each year. Every year.
... limited liability company, and foreign limited liability company ... shall pay an annual report fee of ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://code.wvlegislature.gov/59-1-2A/
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 West Virginia code, word for word:
... domestic corporation or domestic nonprofit corporation whose business office is identical with the registered office; or (C) A ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-5-501; § 31B-1-108(a)-(b)
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.