GA registered agent
Georgia registered agent service, $5 a year
Georgia requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Georgia law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Georgia requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Georgia code:
Each corporation must continuously maintain in this state: (1) A registered office that may be the same as any of its places of business; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-501; sec. 14-11-209(a)-(b)
How we comply
We don't.
What Georgia 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 Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under Code Section 14-2-1421 to dissolve a corporation administratively if: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1420(3)-(4); sec. 14-11-603(b)(1)(B)-(C)
Revocation (foreign entities)
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under Code Section 14-2-1531 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1530(3)-(4); sec. 14-2-1531(d)
No access to the courts
A foreign corporation transacting business in this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1502(a)-(b)
Civil penalty
(10) Civil penalty for a foreign corporation transacting business ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-122(10)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
A corporation administratively dissolved under Code Section 14-2-1421 may apply to the Secretary of State for reinstatement within five years after the effective date of such dissolution. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1422(a); sec. 14-2-122(12); sec. 14-11-603(b)(4); sec. 14-11-1101(a)(16)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
Whenever a limited liability company shall fail to appoint or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-504(b); sec. 14-2-1510(b); sec. 14-11-209(f)
One more thing to skip: the Georgia annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Georgia 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
$60 a year.
Each LLC must file an annual registration with the Secretary of State between January 1 and April 1 of each calendar year. ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.ga.gov/how-to-guide/how-guide-register-domestic-entity
Annual report fee, corporation
$60 a year.
Annual Registration (Profit Corp., Professional Corp., Benefit ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: GA SOS Corporations Division Filing Fees (Rev. 8/2025, eff. 9/6/2025)
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.