TN registered agent
Tennessee. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Tennessee code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Tennessee does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... this state without first procuring a certificate of authority to do so from the secretary of state, or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-15-104(b)
The Tennessee annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Tennessee 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
$300 a year, give or take nothing.
... minimum up to a maximum of $3000. The fee increases by an additional $50 per member for every member over 6 members up ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.tn.gov/businesses/faqs
Yearly report, corporation
$20 a year, give or take nothing.
... a corporation is $20, and an additional $20 is required if any change is made ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.tn.gov/businesses/faqs
What Tennessee had in mind
What is required
The Tennessee code, more or less word for word:
... not-for-profit domestic corporation, a domestic LLC, a domestic general partnership, a domestic limited partnership, or a domestic registered limited liability partnership; or (B) A foreign ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-15-101(a)
What Tennessee 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
... in this state for two (2) months or more; ... (4) Corporation does not notify the secretary of state within two (2) months that its registered agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-24-201(2), (4)
Dissolved, administratively
... office in this state for two (2) months or more; ... (4) The LLC does not notify the secretary of state within two (2) months that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-249-604(2), (4)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... inform the secretary of state under § 48-25-108 or § 48-25-109 that its registered agent or registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-25-301(2)-(3)
Also, apparently
... may not carry on any business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under § 48-24-105 and notify claimants ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-24-202(c)
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
... reinstatement following administrative dissolution 70.00 ... (32) Application for reinstatement following ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-11-303(a)(23), (a)(32)
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.