NC registered agent
North Carolina registered agent, $3.50 a year, about a penny a day
North Carolina 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 North Carolina rule
Rule
From the North Carolina code:
... be the same as any of its places of business... and (2) A registered agent, who ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-30(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.
Dissolved by the state
... 55-14-21 to dissolve administratively a corporation if: ... (3) The corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this State for 60 days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-14-20(3)-(4); § 55-14-21(b); § 57D-6-06(a)(3)-(4)
Revoked (from out of state)
... commence a proceeding under G.S. 55-15-31 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-15-30(a)(3)-(4); § 55-15-31(d); § 57D-7-30(a)(3)-(4)
Also
... case of an administrative dissolution or revocation of registration as a limited liability partnership, the expiration of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-21(d)(2)
The reinstatement bill
Reinstatement, priced
... corporation administratively dissolved under G.S. 55-14-21 may apply to the Secretary of State for reinstatement... [Fee schedule:] (16) Application for reinstatement ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-14-22; § 55-1-22(a)(16)
Our compliance
Split the difference: none.
Lawsuits, delivered elsewhere
Service
... 55D-30 fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-33(b)
The annual report, also optional
Every year North Carolina 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
$200 a year, to the dollar.
(28) Annual report $200.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. 57D-1-22(a)(28)
Code text captured by incFACTS 2026-08-01, verified against the state 2026-08-10. The law moves; the page does not.