VA registered agent
Virginia registered agent, $3.50 a year, about a penny a day
Virginia 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 Virginia rule
Rule
From the Virginia code:
... is a resident of the Commonwealth and (i) either an officer or director of the corporation or (ii) a member of the Virginia State Bar and whose business office is identical with the registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-634(A)(2) (corporations); § 13.1-1015(A)(2) (LLCs); § 13.1-763 (foreign corporations)
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 statement of resignation pursuant to § 13.1-636 fails to file a statement of change pursuant to § 13.1-635 within 31 days ... the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-752(B); parallel LLC provision at § 13.1-1050.2(B)
Dissolved by the state
... be terminated involuntarily by order of the Commission when it finds that the corporation ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-753(A)(ii); parallel LLC provision at § 13.1-1050.3(A)(2)
Revoked (from out of state)
... resignation pursuant to § 13.1-765 fails to file a statement of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-768(C); § 13.1-769(A)(2)
No suing anyone
... corporation transacting business in the Commonwealth without ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-758(A)
Fine
... business in the Commonwealth without a certificate of authority, each officer, director, and employee who does any of such business in the Commonwealth knowing that a certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-758(D)
The reinstatement bill
Reinstatement, priced
... corporation shall provide the Commission with the following: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-754(B)(2)-(3); § 13.1-769.1(B)(2); § 13.1-1050.4(B)(2)
Our compliance
Split the difference: none.
Lawsuits, delivered elsewhere
Service
... or maintain a registered agent in this Commonwealth, or whenever its registered agent cannot ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-637(B); parallel provisions at § 13.1-1018(B) (LLC) and § 13.1-766(B) (foreign corp)
The annual report, also optional
Every year Virginia 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
$50 a year, to the dollar.
an annual registration fee of $50
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title13.1/chapter12/section13.1-1062/
Annual report: corporation
$100 a year, to the dollar.
ANNUAL REGISTRATION FEE SCHEDULE ... STOCK CORPORATION: Authorized shares Fee 1 - 5,000 $ 100 ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: SCC 'Annual Corporation Requirements' / Annual Registration Fee Schedule (rev. 02/26), citing Va. Code 13.1-775.1
Code text captured by incFACTS 2026-08-01, verified against the state 2026-08-10. The law moves; the page does not.