CT registered agent
Connecticut registered agent service, $5 a year
Connecticut requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Connecticut law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Connecticut requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Connecticut code:
(1) A registered office that may be the same as any of its places of business; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-660(a); accord § 34-243n(b), (e) (LLCs)
How we comply
We don't.
What Connecticut 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
Whenever it comes to the attention of the Secretary of the State ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-890(c); effect: § 33-891
Administrative dissolution
Whenever it comes to the attention of the Secretary of the State that a delinquent limited liability company has failed to maintain a registered agent for service ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-267g(c); effect: § 34-267g(f)
Revocation (foreign entities)
The Secretary of the State may commence a proceeding under section 33-936 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state if: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-935
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
The application must: ... (3) be accompanied by: (A) Payment of all penalties and forfeitures incurred by the corporation and a reinstatement fee; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-892(a); fees: § 33-617(a)(15), § 34-243u(a)(11); LLC: § 34-267b(b)(3)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
If a corporation has no registered agent, or the agent cannot ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-663(b); accord § 34-243r(c) (LLCs)
One more thing to skip: the Connecticut annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Connecticut 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
$80 a year.
Filing an annual report, (A) concerning any year prior to July ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. sec. 34-243u(a)
Annual report fee, corporation
$150 a year.
(12) filing annual report, one hundred fifty dollars except as ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. sec. 33-617(a)(12)
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.