CO registered agent

Colorado registered agent service, $5 a year

Colorado requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Colorado law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.

What Colorado requires of a registered agent

The requirement

In the words of the Colorado code:

Every domestic entity for which a constituent filed document ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: C.R.S. § 7-90-701(1)-(2)

How we comply

We don't.

What Colorado 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.

And also

A domestic entity that is a reporting entity may be declared delinquent under section 7-90-902 if: ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: C.R.S. § 7-90-901(1)(c); § 7-90-902(1)(a)

No access to the courts

A delinquent entity may not maintain a proceeding in any court ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: C.R.S. § 7-90-903(1)

Administrative dissolution

A delinquent domestic entity may be dissolved at any time and ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: C.R.S. § 7-90-903(5); § 7-90-908

Revocation (foreign entities)

A foreign entity that is a reporting entity may be declared delinquent under section 7-90-902 if: ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: C.R.S. § 7-90-901(2)(c); see § 7-90-808 (repealed)

The bill to come back

We couldn't be bothered to look this up. incFACTS carries no human-verified reinstatement fee for Colorado 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 that is required to maintain a registered agent ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: C.R.S. § 7-90-704(2)

One more thing to skip: the Colorado annual report

Our other ways to save money apply here too. Colorado 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

$25 a year.

Periodic Report $25.00 n/a

Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Colorado SOS Business Organizations Fee Schedule (Revised July 1, 2024), General applicability

Annual report fee, corporation

$25 a year.

Periodic Report $25.00 n/a

Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Colorado SOS Business Organizations Fee Schedule (Revised July 1, 2024), General applicability

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.

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