DE registered agent
Delaware. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Delaware 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 Delaware 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.
Dissolved by the state, administratively
... designate a new registered agent as aforesaid prior to the expiration of the period of 30 days after the filing by the registered agent of the certificate of resignation, the Secretary of State ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 136(b); see § 132(f)(4)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... a new registered agent as aforesaid prior to the expiration of the period of 30 days after the filing by the registered agent of the certificate of resignation, the Secretary of State shall ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 136(b); see § 132(f)(4)
Also in the water
... a new registered agent as aforesaid prior to the expiration of the period of 30 days after the filing by the registered agent of the certificate of resignation, the certificate of formation of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 6 Del. C. § 18-104(d); see § 18-104(i)(4)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... corporation to file a complete annual franchise tax report with the Secretary of State on or before March 1, the corporation shall pay the sum of $200 to be recovered by adding that amount to the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 502(c); see §§ 510, 502(f)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Delaware asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Delaware code, undiluted:
... (3) A domestic corporation (other than the corporation itself), a domestic partnership ..., a domestic limited liability company or a domestic statutory trust; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 132(a), (b); accord 6 Del. C. § 18-104(a) (LLCs)
The Delaware annual report, which can also be left to settle
Delaware charges a yearly amount to keep a company on its books. Here it is. Leaving it unpaid saves the whole amount, in exactly the way the rest of this site saves you money.
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$50 each year, down the drain.
... or Amended Annual Report for non-exempt domestic corporations the ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://corp.delaware.gov/frtax/
The refill fee
incFACTS has not verified the Delaware reinstatement fee. Something is floating over that entry and we did not fish it out.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... It shall be the duty of the plaintiff in the event of such service to serve process and any other papers in duplicate, to notify the Secretary of State that service is being effected pursuant to this subsection, and to pay the Secretary of State the sum of $50 for the use of the State ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 321(b) [effective until Aug. 1, 2026]; see §§ 136(c), 502(d); 6 Del. C. § 18-105(b) (LLCs)
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.