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
If a corporation fails to appoint or maintain a statutory agent at the address shown on the records of the commission, the commission is an agent of the corporation on whom process, notice or demand may be served. ...
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.
Do LLCs file annual 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:
... (e) A limited liability company authorized to transact business in this state.
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
The commission may commence a proceeding under section 10-1421 to administratively dissolve a corporation if either: ... 3. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1420(3)-(4), § 10-1421; § 29-3708(A)(2), (4) (LLCs)
Also, apparently
... after the effective date of the dissolution, the commission shall release the corporate name for use in accordance with chapters 1 through 17 of this title or by a person intending to register ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1421(C); § 29-3709(B) (LLCs)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
The commission may commence a proceeding under section 10-1531 to revoke the authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this state if any of the following conditions exist: ... 3. ...
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
... pay all fees and penalties that were due to the commission at the time of the company's administrative dissolution and all fees and penalties that would have been due to the commission ...
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.