AL registered agent
Alabama registered agent service, $5 a year
Alabama requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Alabama law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Alabama requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Alabama code:
(b) A registered agent: (1) is an agent of the entity on which may be served any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the entity; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-5.31(b)-(c) (as amended by Act 2026-495, effective Aug. 1, 2026)
How we comply
We don't.
What Alabama does to your company when we don't
Here is what the state does to an entity that has no agent, or whose agent is us.
Revocation (foreign entities)
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under Section 10A-1-7.13 to revoke the registration of a foreign entity authorized to transact business in this state if: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-7.12(2)-(3)
No access to the courts
The failure of a foreign filing entity to register to transact ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-7.22(a)
The bill to come back
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. incFACTS carries no human-verified reinstatement fee for Alabama in the registered agent dataset, and we are not the kind of company that checks.
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
If an entity required by Section 10A-1-5.31 to designate and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-5.35
One more thing to skip: the Alabama annual report
Annual report fee, LLC
Alabama charges no annual report fee, per the state's own guidance quoted below. There is nothing here to skip, which we found disappointing.
Beginning January 1, 2024, the Alabama Secretary of State Corporation Annual Report will no longer be filed with the Business Privilege Tax return. ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: ALDOR Notice: Important Changes to the 2024 Business Privilege Tax Filing Requirements
Annual report fee, corporation
Alabama charges no annual report fee, per the state's own guidance quoted below. There is nothing here to skip, which we found disappointing.
Corporations authorized to transact business in Alabama are no ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: AL SOS Business Entities page
Statutory text as captured by incFACTS (retrieved 2026-08-01, verified word-for-word against the state code 2026-08-10). Laws change. The statute governs; this page does not.