VA registered agent
Virginia. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Virginia 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 Virginia 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
... If the corporation fails to file the statement of change before ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-752(B); parallel LLC provision at § 13.1-1050.2(B)
Dissolved by the state, administratively
... to maintain a registered office or a registered agent in this Commonwealth as required by law ... Upon termination, the properties and affairs of the corporation shall pass automatically to ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-753(A)(ii); parallel LLC provision at § 13.1-1050.3(A)(2)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... corporation fails to file the statement of change before the last day of the second month ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-768(C); § 13.1-769(A)(2)
Locked out of the courthouse
... without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-758(A)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... who does any of such business in the Commonwealth knowing that a certificate of authority is required ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-758(D)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Virginia asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Virginia code, undiluted:
... A domestic or foreign stock or nonstock corporation, limited ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-634(A)(2) (corporations); § 13.1-1015(A)(2) (LLCs); § 13.1-763 (foreign corporations)
The Virginia annual report, which can also be left to settle
Virginia 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
$50 each year, down the drain.
an annual registration fee of $50
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title13.1/chapter12/section13.1-1062/
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$100 each year, down the drain.
... SCHEDULE ... STOCK CORPORATION: Authorized shares Fee 1 - 5,000 ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: SCC 'Annual Corporation Requirements' / Annual Registration Fee Schedule (rev. 02/26), citing Va. Code 13.1-775.1
The refill fee
The refill fee
... annual registration fees and penalties that were due before the corporation ceased to exist ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-754(B)(2)-(3); § 13.1-769.1(B)(2); § 13.1-1050.4(B)(2)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office, then ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-637(B); parallel provisions at § 13.1-1018(B) (LLC) and § 13.1-766(B) (foreign corp)
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.