VT registered agent
Vermont. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Vermont 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 Vermont 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.
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... (4) the foreign corporation fails to inform the Secretary of State under section 15.08 or 15.09 of this title that its registered agent for service of process or registered office has changed
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(a)(3)-(4)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... or (C) deliver for filing a statement of change under section 4008 of this title within 30 days after a change has occurred in the name or address of the agent
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4117(a)(1)(B)-(C)
Also in the water
... the Secretary of State the foreign corporation's agent for service of process in any proceeding based on a cause of action that arose during the time the foreign corporation was authorized to ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... State without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding or raise a counterclaim, crossclaim, or affirmative defense in any court in this State until ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.02(a); 11 V.S.A. § 4119(a)(1)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... (2) an amount equal to the fees due under this chapter during the period it transacted business in this State without a certificate of authority
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4119(e)(1)-(2)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Vermont asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Vermont code, undiluted:
... and (2) a registered agent for service of process pursuant to 11 V.S.A. § 1655, whose business office is identical with the registered office.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 5.01; 11 V.S.A. § 4007
The Vermont annual report, which can also be left to settle
Vermont 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
$45 each year, down the drain.
Annual report of a domestic limited liability company $45.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4012
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$60 each year, down the drain.
(17) Annual report of a domestic corporation $60.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 1.22(a)(17)
The refill fee
The refill fee
... of the Secretary of State that each ground cited in the notice of termination does not exist, and pays to the Secretary of State a reinstatement fee of $25.00 for each year it is delinquent, the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(e); 11A V.S.A. § 1.22(d); 11 V.S.A. § 4012(a)(17)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Vermont keeps its rule for serving an agentless company in a chapter we never got to. The pages had stuck together.
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.