PA registered agent
Pennsylvania. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Pennsylvania code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Pennsylvania does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Pennsylvania has a fallback for serving a company whose agent is not around. It is in a different chapter. We did not get that far.
The Pennsylvania annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Pennsylvania 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
$7 a year, give or take nothing.
... foreign association: ... (ii) Annual report delivered to the bureau electronically ... 7 (iii) Annual report not delivered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 153(a)(18)(ii)-(iii)
Yearly report, corporation
$7 a year, give or take nothing.
... Annual report delivered to the bureau electronically ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 153(a)(18)(ii)-(iii)
What Pennsylvania had in mind
What is required
The Pennsylvania code, more or less word for word:
... corporation shall have and continuously maintain in this Commonwealth a registered office which may, but need not, be ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 1507(a); see also §§ 109, 411(f), 8825(a)
What Pennsylvania 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
... section 382 (relating to procedure and effect) to administratively dissolve a domestic filing entity ... if the entity does not deliver an annual report to the department ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 381(a); § 382
Authority revoked, foreign companies
The department may terminate the registration of a registered foreign association ... if the department finds that the association: (1) has not amended its registration when required by section 413 ...; (2) has been administratively, voluntarily or involuntarily dissolved under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 419(a), (d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... filing association or foreign limited liability partnership doing business in this Commonwealth may not maintain an action or proceeding in this Commonwealth unless it is ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 411(b)
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 Pennsylvania 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.