KY registered agent
Kentucky registered agent, $3.50 a year, about a penny a day
Kentucky wants a registered agent at a real address for every company it registers. The statute is below. So is what the state charges when the agent is us.
The Kentucky rule
Rule
From the Kentucky code:
... may be: 1. An individual who resides in this Commonwealth and whose business ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.4-010(1)(b)
What it costs when the agent does not answer
Penalties, dissolution, the works. Quoted from the code, priced by the state, not by us.
Dissolved by the state
... a registered office or registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; (c) If the entity does not ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.7-010(1)(b)-(c)
Revoked (from out of state)
... foreign entity is without a registered office or registered agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-070(2)-(3)
No suing anyone
... entity transacting business in this Commonwealth without a certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-020(1)
Fine
... is liable for a civil penalty of two dollars ($2) for each day it transacts business in this Commonwealth without a certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-020(4)
Also
... of a foreign entity's certificate of authority shall be considered to appoint the Secretary of State the foreign entity's registered agent in any proceeding ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-080(4)
The reinstatement bill
Reinstatement, priced
... Be accompanied by the reinstatement penalty and the current fee for filing each delinquent annual ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.7-030(1)(g)
Our compliance
Split the difference: none.
Lawsuits, delivered elsewhere
Service
... agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity or foreign entity may be served with process, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.4-040(2)
The annual report, also optional
Every year Kentucky sends a bill to keep your company listed. Here is the number. Skipping it is a saving, in the same sense we are.
Annual report: LLC
$15 a year, to the dollar.
Your annual report must be signed, dated and accompanied by a $15 ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.ky.gov/bus/business-filings/Pages/Annual-Reports.aspx
Annual report: corporation
$15 a year, to the dollar.
Domestic Corporations (Profit and Professional Service) - Annual ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Kentucky Secretary of State, Business Filings - Fees
Code text captured by incFACTS 2026-08-01, verified against the state 2026-08-10. The law moves; the page does not.