AL registered agent
Alabama. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Alabama code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Alabama does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... diligence be served, the entity may be served with process as provided by the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure and may be served with any other notice or demand required or permitted by ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-5.35
The Alabama annual report, which you could also not do
Yearly report, LLC
Alabama does not charge for the yearly report, according to the guidance quoted below. So there is nothing to not pay. Fine.
Beginning January 1, 2024, the Alabama Secretary of State Corporation Annual Report will no longer be filed with the Business Privilege Tax return. ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: ALDOR Notice: Important Changes to the 2024 Business Privilege Tax Filing Requirements
Yearly report, corporation
Alabama does not charge for the yearly report, according to the guidance quoted below. So there is nothing to not pay. Fine.
... to transact business in Alabama are no longer required by law to file an annual report ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: AL SOS Business Entities page
What Alabama had in mind
What is required
The Alabama code, more or less word for word:
... (2) may be: (A) an individual who is a resident of this state; or (B) a domestic entity or a foreign entity that is registered to transact business in this state; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-5.31(b)-(c) (as amended by Act 2026-495, effective Aug. 1, 2026)
What Alabama does next
The state keeps a list of things it does to a company whose agent is not really there. Here is the list, pasted, unedited, because editing it would be effort.
Authority revoked, foreign companies
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under Section 10A-1-7.13 to revoke the registration of a foreign entity authorized to transact business in this state if: ... (2) the foreign entity is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for 60 days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-7.12(2)-(3)
Locked out of the courthouse
... of the foreign entity and shall not prevent the foreign entity from defending any action or proceeding in any court of this state, but the foreign entity shall not maintain any action or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-7.22(a)
How that lands with us
Lukewarm. We read it once. It did not change anything.
Coming back, if you feel like it
There is a fee to bring a Alabama company back. incFACTS has not confirmed the figure, and we did not ask, or whatever.
The quoted passages were captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and compared to the live code on 2026-08-10. Laws get amended. This page mostly does not.