KY registered agent
Kentucky registered agent service, $5 a year
Kentucky requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Kentucky law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Kentucky requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Kentucky code:
(b) A registered agent, who may be: 1. An individual who resides in this Commonwealth and whose business address is identical with the registered office; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.4-010(1)(b)
How we comply
We don't.
What Kentucky 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
(b) If the entity is without a registered office or registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.7-010(1)(b)-(c)
Revocation (foreign entities)
(2) The foreign entity is without a registered office or registered agent in this Commonwealth for sixty (60) days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-070(2)-(3)
No access to the courts
A foreign entity transacting business in this Commonwealth without ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-020(1)
Civil penalty
A foreign entity is liable for a civil penalty of two dollars ($2) for each day it transacts business in this Commonwealth without a certificate of authority. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-020(4)
And also
The Secretary of State's revocation of a foreign entity's certificate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-080(4)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
(g) Be accompanied by the reinstatement penalty and the current ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.7-030(1)(g)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
If an entity or foreign entity has no registered agent, or the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.4-040(2)
One more thing to skip: the Kentucky annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Kentucky 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
$15 a year.
Your annual report must be signed, dated and accompanied by a ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.ky.gov/bus/business-filings/Pages/Annual-Reports.aspx
Annual report fee, corporation
$15 a year.
Domestic Corporations (Profit and Professional Service) - Annual ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Kentucky Secretary of State, Business Filings - Fees
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.