WA registered agent
Washington. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Washington 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 Washington 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
... under RCW 23.95.610 to dissolve a domestic entity administratively if: ... (3) The entity does not have a registered agent in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.605(3); procedure and effect at RCW 23.95.610
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... (d) The entity does not deliver to the secretary of state for filing a statement of change under RCW 23.95.430 if change occurs in the name or address of the entity's registered agent
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.550(1)(c)-(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... an action or proceeding in this state unless it is registered to do business in this state and has paid to this state all fees and penalties for the years, or parts thereof, during which it did ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.505(2)
Also in the water
... it transacted business in this state without a certificate of registration, in an amount equal to all fees which would have been imposed by this chapter upon the entity had it applied for and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.505(5)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Washington asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Washington code, undiluted:
... (b) An individual who holds the office or other position in an entity which is designated as the registered agent pursuant to RCW 23.95.415(1)(b)(ii); ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.405; 23.95.105(22); 23.95.410; 23.95.415(1)
The Washington annual report, which can also be left to settle
Washington 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
$70 each year, down the drain.
(p) Annual report Seventy dollars
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: WAC 434-112-085(7)(p)
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$70 each year, down the drain.
(p) Annual report Seventy dollars
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: WAC 434-112-085(7)(p)
The refill fee
The refill fee
... fees which would have been assessed during the period of administrative dissolution had the entity been in active status, plus a penalty fee established by the secretary of state by rule, and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.615(2)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... (4) The secretary of state shall be an agent of the entity for service of process if process, notice, or demand cannot be served on an entity pursuant to subsection (1), (2), or (3) of this section.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.450(2)-(4)
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.