NY registered agent
New York. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
New York 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 New York 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.
Also in the water
... of the new address after the filing of a certificate of resignation for receipt of process with the secretary of state, its authority to do business in this state shall be suspended unless ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 306-A(b)-(c)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... state sixty days after a notice of delinquency has been mailed... Such delinquency shall be removed from the records of the department of state upon the filing of the current statement required by ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 409(1)-(2)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What New York asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The New York code, undiluted:
... The agent shall be a natural person who is a resident of or has a business address in this state or a domestic corporation or foreign corporation of any type or kind formed, or authorized to do business in this state, under this chapter or under any other statute of this state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 305(a); N.Y. Ltd. Liab. Co. Law § 302(a)-(b)
The New York annual report, which can also be left to settle
New York 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
$9 each year, down the drain.
... filing a Biennial Statement for a business corporation or ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://dos.ny.gov/faqs-corporations-business-entities
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$9 each year, down the drain.
... or amendment pursuant to section four hundred eight of this chapter with the department of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 104-A(r)
The refill fee
incFACTS has not verified the New York reinstatement fee. Something is floating over that entry and we did not fish it out.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... (b) No domestic or foreign corporation may be formed or authorized to do business in this state under this chapter unless in its certificate of incorporation or application for authority it designates the secretary of state as such agent.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law §§ 304(a)-(b), 306(b); N.Y. Ltd. Liab. Co. Law § 303(a)
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.