NY registered agent
New York registered agent service, $5 a year
New York requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what New York law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What New York requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the New York code:
In addition to such designation of the secretary of state, every ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 305(a); N.Y. Ltd. Liab. Co. Law § 302(a)-(b)
How we comply
We don't.
What New York 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.
And also
Upon the failure of the designating corporation to file a certificate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 306-A(b)-(c)
Civil penalty
Each corporation which has failed to file its statement for two ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 409(1)-(2)
The bill to come back
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. incFACTS carries no human-verified reinstatement fee for New York 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 secretary of state shall be the agent of every domestic corporation and every authorized foreign corporation upon whom process against the corporation may be served. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law §§ 304(a)-(b), 306(b); N.Y. Ltd. Liab. Co. Law § 303(a)
One more thing to skip: the New York annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. New York 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
$9 a year.
The fee for filing a Biennial Statement for a business corporation ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://dos.ny.gov/faqs-corporations-business-entities
Annual report fee, corporation
$9 a year.
(r) For filing a statement or amendment pursuant to section four ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 104-A(r)
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.