SC registered agent
South Carolina. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
South Carolina 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 South Carolina 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 that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-14-200(a)(3)-(4)
Also in the water
... on any business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under Section 33-14-105 and notify ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-14-210(b), (d)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... (4) the foreign corporation does not inform the Secretary of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-15-300(a)(3)-(4)
Locked out of the courthouse
... State without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this State until it obtains a certificate of authority.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-15-102(a)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... a total of one thousand dollars for each year it transacts business ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-15-102(d)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What South Carolina asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The South Carolina code, undiluted:
... (ii) a domestic corporation or not-for-profit domestic corporation whose business office is identical with the registered office; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-5-101
The South Carolina annual report, which can also be left to settle
Yearly report fee for an LLC
South Carolina charges no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. Nothing to leave unpaid. The bowl is empty on this one.
... are not subject to the annual report or the License Fee: A Limited Liability Company (LLC) not taxed as ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: SCDOR Corporate FAQs (annual report / License Fee exemptions)
Yearly report fee for a corporation
South Carolina charges no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. Nothing to leave unpaid. The bowl is empty on this one.
... submit the names of directors on Annual Reports filed with the ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: SC SOS FAQs About Business Entities #14
The refill fee
The refill fee
... certificate from the South Carolina Department of Revenue reciting that all taxes, penalties, and interest owed by the corporation, whether assessed or not, have been paid.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-1-220(a)(16); § 33-14-220(a)(4)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... or the agent for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent's address, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-44-111(b)
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.