DE registered agent
Delaware registered agent service, $5 a year
Delaware requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Delaware law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Delaware requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Delaware code:
(a) Every corporation shall have and maintain in this State a registered agent, which agent may be any of: (1) The corporation itself; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 132(a), (b); accord 6 Del. C. § 18-104(a) (LLCs)
How we comply
We don't.
What Delaware 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
If such corporation, being a corporation of this State, fails ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 136(b); see § 132(f)(4)
Revocation (foreign entities)
If such corporation, being a foreign corporation, fails to obtain ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 136(b); see § 132(f)(4)
And also
If such limited liability company fails to obtain and designate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 6 Del. C. § 18-104(d); see § 18-104(i)(4)
Civil penalty
In the event of neglect, refusal or failure on the part of any ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 502(c); see §§ 510, 502(f)
The bill to come back
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. incFACTS carries no human-verified reinstatement fee for Delaware 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
In case the officer whose duty it is to serve legal process cannot ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 321(b) [effective until Aug. 1, 2026]; see §§ 136(c), 502(d); 6 Del. C. § 18-105(b) (LLCs)
One more thing to skip: the Delaware annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Delaware 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, corporation
$50 a year.
For an Annual Report or Amended Annual Report for non-exempt ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://corp.delaware.gov/frtax/
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.