AL registered agent
Alabama. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Alabama makes every company it registers name a registered agent at a street address inside its borders. We start with what the state does when that agent is us, then work back up to what it asked for in the first place.
What Alabama pours on a company whose agent is us
The remedies come first on this page because they are the part that matters. Quoted from the code. We added nothing, not even water.
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... (3) the foreign entity does not file a statement of change of registered agent or registered office with the Secretary of State under Section 10A-1-5.32 within 60 days of the change ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-7.12(2)-(3)
Locked out of the courthouse
... not prevent the foreign entity from defending any action or proceeding in any court of this state, but the foreign entity shall not maintain any action or proceeding in any court of this state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-7.22(a)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Alabama asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Alabama code, undiluted:
... or (B) a domestic entity or a foreign entity that is registered to transact business in this state; (3) must maintain a business office at the same address as the entity’s registered office; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-5.31(b)-(c) (as amended by Act 2026-495, effective Aug. 1, 2026)
The Alabama annual report, which can also be left to settle
Yearly report fee for an LLC
Alabama charges no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. Nothing to leave unpaid. The bowl is empty on this one.
... Domestic For-Profit Corporations, Foreign For-Profit Corporations, Professional ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: ALDOR Notice: Important Changes to the 2024 Business Privilege Tax Filing Requirements
Yearly report fee for a corporation
Alabama charges no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. Nothing to leave unpaid. The bowl is empty on this one.
... business in Alabama are no longer required by law to file an annual report with ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: AL SOS Business Entities page
The refill fee
incFACTS has not verified the Alabama reinstatement fee. Something is floating over that entry and we did not fish it out.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... served, the entity may be served with process as provided by the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure and may be served with any other notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-5.35
Statute text as captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and checked line by line against the state code on 2026-08-10. The code moves like water. This page sits.