TN registered agent
Tennessee. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Tennessee 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 Tennessee 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) Corporation does not notify the secretary of state within ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-24-201(2), (4)
Dissolved by the state, administratively
... (4) The LLC does not notify the secretary of state within ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-249-604(2), (4)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... under § 48-25-108 or § 48-25-109 that its registered agent or registered office has changed, that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-25-301(2)-(3)
Also in the water
... carry on any business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under § 48-24-105 and notify claimants under §§ 48-24-106 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-24-202(c)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Tennessee asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Tennessee code, undiluted:
... partnership, a domestic limited partnership, or a domestic registered limited liability partnership; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-15-101(a)
The Tennessee annual report, which can also be left to settle
Tennessee 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
$300 each year, down the drain.
... to a maximum of $3000. The fee increases by an additional $50 per member for every member over 6 ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.tn.gov/businesses/faqs
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$20 each year, down the drain.
... corporation is $20, and an additional $20 is required if any change is made concerning ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.tn.gov/businesses/faqs
The refill fee
The refill fee
... following administrative dissolution 70.00 ... (32) Application for reinstatement ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-11-303(a)(23), (a)(32)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... of authority to do so from the secretary of state, or whenever the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation shall have been withdrawn or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-15-104(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.