SC registered agent
South Carolina. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the South Carolina code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what South Carolina does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... process in this State or the agent for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent's address, the Secretary of State is an agent of the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-44-111(b)
The South Carolina annual report, which you could also not do
Yearly report, LLC
South Carolina does not charge for the yearly report, according to the guidance quoted below. So there is nothing to not pay. Fine.
... associations are not subject to the annual report or the License Fee: A Limited ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: SCDOR Corporate FAQs (annual report / License Fee exemptions)
Yearly report, corporation
South Carolina does not charge for the yearly report, according to the guidance quoted below. So there is nothing to not pay. Fine.
... must submit the names of directors on Annual Reports filed with the Department ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: SC SOS FAQs About Business Entities #14
What South Carolina had in mind
What is required
The South Carolina code, more or less word for word:
... in this State and whose business office is identical with the registered office; (ii) a domestic corporation or not-for-profit domestic ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-5-101
What South Carolina 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
... agent or registered office in this State; (4) the corporation does not notify the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-14-200(a)(3)-(4)
Also, apparently
... not carry on any business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-14-210(b), (d)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... is without a registered agent or registered office in this State; (4) the foreign corporation does not inform the Secretary of State under Section ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-15-300(a)(3)-(4)
Locked out of the courthouse
... this State without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this State ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-15-102(a)
A penalty, in dollars
... not to exceed a total of one thousand dollars for each year it ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-15-102(d)
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 certificate from the South Carolina Department of Revenue reciting ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: S.C. Code Ann. § 33-1-220(a)(16); § 33-14-220(a)(4)
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.