MD registered agent
Maryland registered agent, $3.50 a year, about a penny a day
Maryland 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 Maryland rule
Rule
From the Maryland code:
... individual residing in this State or a Maryland corporation, limited liability company, or limited partnership whose name, address, and designation as ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass'ns § 1-101(x); see also §§ 2-108(a), 4A-210(a)
What it costs when the agent does not answer
Penalties, dissolution, the works. Quoted from the code, priced by the state, not by us.
Revoked (from out of state)
... the corporation, the qualification is effective as long as: (1) The corporation has a resident agent in this State; (2) ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass'ns § 7-203(c)
Also
... act as a resident agent for a foreign corporation that does business in this State: (1) Without a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass'ns § 7-205(b)
The reinstatement bill
No verified Maryland reinstatement fee in incFACTS yet. We rounded it to unknown.
Our compliance
Split the difference: none.
Lawsuits, delivered elsewhere
Service
... act as a resident agent for a foreign corporation that does business in this State: (1) Without a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass'ns § 7-205(b); see also §§ 4A-1002(b)(5), 1-401
The annual report, also optional
Every year Maryland 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
$300 a year, to the dollar.
Domestic or Foreign Limited Liability Company (W) or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code, Corps. & Ass'ns 1-203(b)(3)(ii)
Annual report: corporation
$300 a year, to the dollar.
Domestic or Foreign Stock Corporation (D) or (F) $300
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code, Corps. & Ass'ns 1-203(b)(3)(ii)
Code text captured by incFACTS 2026-08-01, verified against the state 2026-08-10. The law moves; the page does not.