WV registered agent
West Virginia. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
West 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 West 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
... of State within 60 days that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-14-1420(a)(2)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... eight or one thousand five hundred nine of this article that its registered agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has resigned or that its registered office has been ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-15-1530(2)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... (iii) File a statement of a change in the name or business address of the agent as ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31B-10-1006(a)(1)(iii)
Locked out of the courthouse
... in this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any circuit court in this state until it ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-15-1502(a)
Also in the water
... The application must: ... (4) Contain a certificate from the Tax Commissioner reciting that all taxes owed by the corporation have been paid.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-14-1422(a)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What West Virginia asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The West Virginia code, undiluted:
... or (C) A foreign corporation or foreign nonprofit corporation authorized to transact business in this state whose business office is identical with the registered office.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-5-501; § 31B-1-108(a)-(b)
The West Virginia annual report, which can also be left to settle
West 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
$25 each year, down the drain.
... report fee of $25 for the services of the Secretary of State as ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://code.wvlegislature.gov/59-1-2A/
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$25 each year, down the drain.
... domestic limited liability company, and foreign limited liability company ... shall pay an ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://code.wvlegislature.gov/59-1-2A/
The refill fee
incFACTS has not verified the West Virginia reinstatement fee. Something is floating over that entry and we did not fish it out.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... or maintain an agent for service of process in this state or the agent for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent's address, the Secretary of State is an agent of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31B-1-111(b); see also § 31D-5-504(b)-(c)
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.