WA registered agent
Washington. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Washington code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Washington does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... commercial delivery service, addressed to the entity at the entity's principal office. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.450(2)-(4)
The Washington annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Washington 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
$70 a year, give or take nothing.
(p) Annual report Seventy dollars
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: WAC 434-112-085(7)(p)
Yearly report, corporation
$70 a year, give or take nothing.
(p) Annual report Seventy dollars
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: WAC 434-112-085(7)(p)
What Washington had in mind
What is required
The Washington code, more or less word for word:
... (b) An individual who holds the office or other position in an ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.405; 23.95.105(22); 23.95.410; 23.95.415(1)
What Washington 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
... under RCW 23.95.610 to dissolve a domestic entity administratively if: ... (3) The entity does not have ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.605(3); procedure and effect at RCW 23.95.610
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... (c) The entity does not have a registered agent as required by RCW 23.95.405; (d) The entity does not deliver to the secretary of state for filing a statement of change under ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.550(1)(c)-(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... this state unless it is registered to do business in this state and has paid to this state all fees and penalties for the years, or parts thereof, during which it did business in this state without ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.505(2)
Also, apparently
... this state without a certificate of registration, in an amount equal to all fees which would have been imposed by this chapter upon the entity had it applied for and received a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.505(5)
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
... been assessed during the period of administrative dissolution had the entity been in active status, plus a penalty ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.615(2)
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.