NJ registered agent
New Jersey registered agent service, $5 a year
New Jersey requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what New Jersey law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What New Jersey requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the New Jersey code:
(3) The registered agent may be a natural person of the age of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-1(1), (3); N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14(c)
How we comply
We don't.
What New Jersey 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)
(1) In addition to any other ground for revocation provided by ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-10(1)(c)
And also
If the corporation fails to designate a new registered agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-4(3)
No access to the courts
No foreign corporation transacting business in this State without ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-11(1)
Civil penalty
a foreign corporation which transacts business in this State ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-11(3)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
the certificate shall be reinstated by proclamation of the State ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-5(7)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
b. If a limited liability company or foreign limited liability ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-17(b)-(c)
One more thing to skip: the New Jersey annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. New Jersey 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
$75 a year.
Limited Liability Company (LLC) ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-93 ('Upon filing of an annual report, a fee in the amount of $75.00')
Annual report fee, corporation
$75 a year.
Annual Report - corporate and LP $75.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:15-2 ('for each such report required to be filed...... $75.00')
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.