PA registered agent
Pennsylvania registered agent service, $5 a year
Pennsylvania requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Pennsylvania law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Pennsylvania requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Pennsylvania code:
(a) General rule.--Every business corporation shall have and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 1507(a); see also §§ 109, 411(f), 8825(a)
How we comply
We don't.
What Pennsylvania 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 department may commence a proceeding under section 382 (relating to procedure and effect) to administratively dissolve a domestic filing entity ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 381(a); § 382
Revocation (foreign entities)
The department may terminate the registration of a registered foreign association ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 419(a), (d)
No access to the courts
(b) Penalty for failure to register.--A foreign filing association ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 411(b)
The bill to come back
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. incFACTS carries no human-verified reinstatement fee for Pennsylvania in the registered agent dataset, and we are not the kind of company that checks.
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. Pennsylvania puts the fallback rules for serving an agentless company somewhere other than the entity code, and we stopped reading.
One more thing to skip: the Pennsylvania annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Pennsylvania 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
$7 a year.
(18) Annual report of domestic or foreign association: ... (ii) Annual report delivered to the bureau electronically ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 153(a)(18)(ii)-(iii)
Annual report fee, corporation
$7 a year.
(ii) Annual report delivered to the bureau electronically ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 153(a)(18)(ii)-(iii)
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.