UT registered agent
Utah. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Utah 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 Utah 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
... registered agent in this state for 30 days or more; (4) the corporation does not give notice to the division within 30 days that its registered agent has been changed or that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1420(3)-(4); procedure at 16-10a-1421
Dissolved by the state, administratively
... to dissolve a limited liability company administratively if the limited liability company does not: ... (c) have a registered agent in this state for 60 consecutive ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-708(1)(c)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... in this state for 30 days or more; (4) the foreign corporation does not inform the division by an appropriate filing within ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1530(3)-(4); procedure at 16-10a-1531
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... registered agent as required by Section 48-3a-111; or (d) deliver to the division for filing a statement of a change under ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-910(1)(c)-(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... in its behalf, may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1502(1); 48-3a-902(2)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... exceed a total of $5,000 for each year. Each officer of a foreign corporation who authorizes, directs, or participates in the transaction of business in this state without authority ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1502(4)-(5)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Utah asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Utah code, undiluted:
... serves in this state as the agent for service of process of an entity; or (b) the individual ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-17-102(14); see also 16-17-202, 16-17-203(1), 48-3a-111(1)
The Utah annual report, which can also be left to settle
Utah 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
$18 each year, down the drain.
*Domestic/foreign limited liability company (LLC) $18
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: FY2026 Fee Schedule sec. 3 Renewal/Annual Report Filings
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$18 each year, down the drain.
*Domestic/foreign corporation $18
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: FY2026 Fee Schedule sec. 3 Renewal/Annual Report Filings
The refill fee
The refill fee
... the division at the time of its administrative dissolution and all fees, taxes, interest, and penalties that would have been due to the division while the limited ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-709(4); 16-10a-1422(1)(a)(vi)-(vii), (1)(b)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... be served, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the governors of the entity by name at ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-17-301(2)-(3)
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.