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
... whenever a foreign corporation shall transact business or conduct affairs in this state without first procuring a certificate of authority to do so from the secretary of state, or whenever the ...
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.
The annual report fee for LLCs is $300 minimum up to a maximum of $3000. The fee increases by an additional $50 per member for every member over 6 members up to a maximum of $3,000.
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.tn.gov/businesses/faqs
Yearly report, corporation
$20 a year, give or take nothing.
... corporation is $20, and an additional $20 is required if any change is made concerning the ...
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:
Each corporation must continuously maintain in this state: ... (2) A registered agent who maintains an office at the same street address as the registered office, and who may be: (A) An individual who resides in this state, a domestic corporation, a not-for-profit domestic corporation, a domestic LLC, a domestic general partnership, a domestic limited partnership, or a domestic registered limited liability partnership; ...
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
The secretary of state may commence a proceeding under § 48-24-202 to administratively dissolve a corporation if the: ... (2) Corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for two (2) months or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-24-201(2), (4)
Dissolved, administratively
The secretary of state may commence a proceeding under § 48-249-605, to administratively dissolve the LLC, if: ... (2) The LLC is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for two (2) months or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-249-604(2), (4)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
(2) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for two (2) months or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-25-301(2)-(3)
Also, apparently
... its corporate existence but may not carry on any business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under § 48-24-105 and notify ...
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
... 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.