GA registered agent
Georgia. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Georgia 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 Georgia 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
... (4) The corporation does not notify the Secretary of State within ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1420(3)-(4); sec. 14-11-603(b)(1)(B)-(C)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... (4) The foreign corporation does not inform the Secretary of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1530(3)-(4); sec. 14-2-1531(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... Each foreign corporation that has not obtained a certificate of authority within 30 calendar days after the first day ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1502(a)-(b)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... for a foreign corporation transacting business in this state without a certificate of authority 500.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-122(10)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Georgia asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Georgia code, undiluted:
... (B) A domestic corporation, nonprofit domestic corporation, or domestic limited liability company whose business office is identical with the registered office; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-501; sec. 14-11-209(a)-(b)
The Georgia annual report, which can also be left to settle
Georgia 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 an LLC
$60 each year, down the drain.
... the Secretary of State between January 1 and April 1 of each calendar year. The ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.ga.gov/how-to-guide/how-guide-register-domestic-entity
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$60 each year, down the drain.
... (Profit Corp., Professional Corp., Benefit Corp., LLC, LP, LLLP, Trust Estate) $50.00 +$10.00 ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: GA SOS Corporations Division Filing Fees (Rev. 8/2025, eff. 9/6/2025)
The refill fee
The refill fee
... five years after the effective date of such dissolution. The application shall: ... (5) Be accompanied by ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1422(a); sec. 14-2-122(12); sec. 14-11-603(b)(4); sec. 14-11-1101(a)(16)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... attorney shall certify in writing to the Secretary of State that the limited liability company failed either to maintain a registered office or appoint a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-504(b); sec. 14-2-1510(b); sec. 14-11-209(f)
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.