MD registered agent
Maryland registered agent service, $5 a year
Maryland requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Maryland law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Maryland requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Maryland code:
"Resident agent" means an individual residing in this State or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass'ns § 1-101(x); see also §§ 2-108(a), 4A-210(a)
How we comply
We don't.
What Maryland 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.
Revocation (foreign entities)
Unless terminated by the corporation, the qualification is effective as long as: (1) The corporation has a resident agent in this State; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass'ns § 7-203(c)
And also
The Department may act as a resident agent for a foreign corporation that does business in this State: (1) Without a resident agent; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass'ns § 7-205(b)
The bill to come back
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. incFACTS carries no human-verified reinstatement fee for Maryland 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
The Department may act as a resident agent for a foreign corporation that does business in this State: (1) Without a resident agent; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass'ns § 7-205(b); see also §§ 4A-1002(b)(5), 1-401
One more thing to skip: the Maryland annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Maryland 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
$300 a year.
Domestic or Foreign Limited Liability ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code, Corps. & Ass'ns 1-203(b)(3)(ii)
Annual report fee, corporation
$300 a year.
Domestic or Foreign Stock Corporation (D) or (F) $300
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code, Corps. & Ass'ns 1-203(b)(3)(ii)
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.