GA registered agent
Georgia. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Georgia code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Georgia does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
Whenever a limited liability company shall fail to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this state or whenever its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office, then the Secretary of State shall be an agent of such limited liability company upon whom any process, notice, or demand may be served. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-504(b); sec. 14-2-1510(b); sec. 14-11-209(f)
The Georgia annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Georgia 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
$60 a year, give or take nothing.
Each LLC must file an annual registration with the Secretary of State between January 1 and April 1 of each calendar year. The fee is $60.00 ($50 filing fee + $10 service charge).
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.ga.gov/how-to-guide/how-guide-register-domestic-entity
Yearly report, corporation
$60 a year, give or take nothing.
... Corp., Professional Corp., Benefit Corp., LLC, LP, LLLP, Trust Estate) ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: GA SOS Corporations Division Filing Fees (Rev. 8/2025, eff. 9/6/2025)
What Georgia had in mind
What is required
The Georgia code, more or less word for word:
... (B) A domestic corporation, nonprofit domestic corporation, or domestic limited liability company whose business office is identical with the registered office; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-501; sec. 14-11-209(a)-(b)
What Georgia 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 Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under Code Section 14-2-1421 to dissolve a corporation administratively 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: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1420(3)-(4); sec. 14-11-603(b)(1)(B)-(C)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under Code Section 14-2-1531 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation ... if: ... (3) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for 60 days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1530(3)-(4); sec. 14-2-1531(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
A foreign corporation transacting business in this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1502(a)-(b)
A penalty, in dollars
... a foreign corporation transacting business in this state without a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-122(10)
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
A corporation administratively dissolved under Code Section 14-2-1421 may apply to the Secretary of State for reinstatement within five years after the effective date of such dissolution. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1422(a); sec. 14-2-122(12); sec. 14-11-603(b)(4); sec. 14-11-1101(a)(16)
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.