AZ registered agent
Arizona. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Arizona code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Arizona does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... cause one of the copies of the process, notice or demand to be forwarded by mail, addressed to the corporation at its known place of business. ... If service ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-504(B) (corporations); § 29-3119(B)-(C) (LLCs)
The Arizona annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Arizona wants a form and a fee to keep your company on the list. The fee is below. Not paying it is in keeping with the rest of this page, or whatever.
Yearly report, LLC
Arizona does not charge for the yearly report, according to the guidance quoted below. So there is nothing to not pay. Fine.
... reports? No, LLCs are not required to file annual reports. Only corporations are required to file annual reports.
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Arizona Corporation Commission, Business Services FAQs, 'Annual Reports' Q1 (also LLC section Q17)
Yearly report, corporation
$45 a year, give or take nothing.
Annual Report – For-profit corporation $45.00 $80.00
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://azcc.gov/docs/default-source/corps-files/fee-schedules/fee-schedule-corporations6def4cc74b1a47129d16c2b1c3851bda.pdf
What Arizona had in mind
What is required
The Arizona code, more or less word for word:
... either: (a) An individual who resides in this state. (b) A domestic corporation formed under this title. (c) A foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state. (d) ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-501 (corporations); § 29-3115(B) (LLCs)
What Arizona 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.
Dissolved, administratively
... of business in this state for sixty days or more. 4. The corporation does not notify the commission within sixty days that its statutory agent or known place of business has been ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1420(3)-(4), § 10-1421; § 29-3708(A)(2), (4) (LLCs)
Also, apparently
... commission shall release the corporate name for use in accordance with chapters ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1421(C); § 29-3709(B) (LLCs)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... without a statutory agent or known place of business in this state for sixty days or more. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1530(3)-(4); § 10-1531
How that lands with us
Lukewarm. We read it once. It did not change anything.
Coming back, if you feel like it
What coming back costs
... were due to the commission at the time of the company's administrative dissolution ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 29-3709(A), (E); § 10-1422(A); § 10-122(A)(13); § 29-3213(A)(12)
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.