AZ registered agent
Arizona registered agent service, $5 a year
Arizona requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Arizona law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Arizona requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Arizona code:
Each corporation shall continuously maintain in this state both: 1. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-501 (corporations); § 29-3115(B) (LLCs)
How we comply
We don't.
What Arizona 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.
Administrative dissolution
The commission may commence a proceeding under section 10-1421 to administratively dissolve a corporation if either: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1420(3)-(4), § 10-1421; § 29-3708(A)(2), (4) (LLCs)
And also
If the corporation has not applied for reinstatement within six ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1421(C); § 29-3709(B) (LLCs)
Revocation (foreign entities)
The commission may commence a proceeding under section 10-1531 to revoke the authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this state if any of the following conditions exist: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1530(3)-(4); § 10-1531
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
To be reinstated, a limited liability company must pay all fees ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 29-3709(A), (E); § 10-1422(A); § 10-122(A)(13); § 29-3213(A)(12)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
If a corporation fails to appoint or maintain a statutory agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-504(B) (corporations); § 29-3119(B)-(C) (LLCs)
One more thing to skip: the Arizona annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Arizona charges the following to keep your company on its books each year. Skipping it saves the whole amount, right up until it does not.
Annual report fee, LLC
Arizona charges no annual report fee, per the state's own guidance quoted below. There is nothing here to skip, which we found disappointing.
Do LLCs file annual reports? No, LLCs are not required to file annual reports. ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Arizona Corporation Commission, Business Services FAQs, 'Annual Reports' Q1 (also LLC section Q17)
Annual report fee, corporation
$45 a year.
Annual Report – For-profit corporation $45.00 $80.00
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://azcc.gov/docs/default-source/corps-files/fee-schedules/fee-schedule-corporations6def4cc74b1a47129d16c2b1c3851bda.pdf
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.