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
... The plaintiff or his or her attorney shall certify in writing ...
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.
... registration with the Secretary of State between January 1 and April 1 of each calendar year. The fee is $60.00 ($50 filing fee ...
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.
... (Profit Corp., Professional Corp., Benefit Corp., LLC, LP, LLLP, Trust ...
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 ...
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
... office in this state for 60 days or more; (4) The corporation does not notify the Secretary of State within 60 days that its registered agent or registered office has been ...
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
... office in this state for 60 days or more; (4) The foreign corporation does not inform the Secretary of State ...
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
... (b) Each foreign corporation that has not obtained a certificate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1502(a)-(b)
A penalty, in dollars
... for a foreign corporation transacting business in this state without ...
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
... for reinstatement within five years after the effective date of such dissolution. The application shall: ... (5) Be accompanied by the fee required ...
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.