VT registered agent
Vermont. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Vermont code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Vermont does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Vermont 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 Vermont annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Vermont 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
$45 a year, give or take nothing.
Annual report of a domestic limited liability company $45.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4012
Yearly report, corporation
$60 a year, give or take nothing.
(17) Annual report of a domestic corporation $60.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 1.22(a)(17)
What Vermont had in mind
What is required
The Vermont code, more or less word for word:
... may be the same as any of its places of business; and (2) a registered agent for service of process pursuant to 11 V.S.A. § 1655, whose business office is identical with the registered office.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 5.01; 11 V.S.A. § 4007
What Vermont 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.
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... for service of process or registered office in this State; (4) the foreign corporation fails to inform ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(a)(3)-(4)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... (B) appoint and maintain an agent for service of process as required by section 4007 of this title; or (C) deliver for filing a statement ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4117(a)(1)(B)-(C)
Also, apparently
... foreign corporation's agent for service of process in any proceeding based on a cause of action that arose during the time ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding or raise a counterclaim, crossclaim, or affirmative defense in any court in this State until ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.02(a); 11 V.S.A. § 4119(a)(1)
A penalty, in dollars
... for each day, not to exceed a total of $10,000.00 for each year, it transacts business in this State without a certificate of authority; (2) an amount equal to the fees due ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4119(e)(1)-(2)
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
... each ground cited in the notice of termination does not exist, and pays to the Secretary of State a reinstatement fee of $25.00 for each year it is ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(e); 11A V.S.A. § 1.22(d); 11 V.S.A. § 4012(a)(17)
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.