LA registered agent
Louisiana registered agent, $3.50 a year, about a penny a day
Louisiana 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 Louisiana rule
Rule
From the Louisiana code:
... (b) A domestic or foreign corporation or other eligible entity ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-501(2); see also La. R.S. 12:1308(A)(2) (LLC); La. R.S. 12:308(A)(1) (foreign corporation)
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
... the secretary of state shall terminate the existence of a corporation if, according to the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-1442(A)-(B)
Also
... is filed within thirty days after the registered office has been vacated, the office of the secretary of state may thereafter be treated as the registered office by ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1308(F)
Revoked (from out of state)
... a registered agent or a registered office in this state, or to ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:313(A)(2), (B), (C)
Revoked (from out of state)
... failed to maintain a registered agent or a registered office in this state or to maintain records as required by this Chapter ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1353(A)(2), (B)
No suing anyone
... transacting business in this state shall be permitted to present any judicial demand before any court of this state unless ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:314(A); La. R.S. 12:1354(A)
Fine
... secretary of state may impose a penalty of not more than one thousand dollars per violation against such foreign corporations transacting business in this state without ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:314.1(B); La. R.S. 12:1355(B)
The reinstatement bill
Reinstatement, priced
... fee is paid for the filing of an annual report for each year between the corporation's ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-1444(F)(2); La. R.S. 12:1308.2(C)(1)(c)
Our compliance
Split the difference: none.
Lawsuits, delivered elsewhere
Service
... be served, the corporation may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-504(B)
The annual report, also optional
Every year Louisiana 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
$30 a year, to the dollar.
Domestic limited liability companies ... Annual Reports $30
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division - Forms & Fee Schedule (Domestic limited liability companies)
Annual report: corporation
$30 a year, to the dollar.
Domestic corporations ... Annual Report $30
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division - Forms & Fee Schedule (Domestic corporations)
Code text captured by incFACTS 2026-08-01, verified against the state 2026-08-10. The law moves; the page does not.