TN registered agent
Tennessee registered agent service, $5 a year
Tennessee requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Tennessee law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Tennessee requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Tennessee code:
Each corporation must continuously maintain in this state: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-15-101(a)
How we comply
We don't.
What Tennessee 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 secretary of state may commence a proceeding under § 48-24-202 to administratively dissolve a corporation if the: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-24-201(2), (4)
Administrative dissolution
The secretary of state may commence a proceeding under § 48-249-605, to administratively dissolve the LLC, if: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-249-604(2), (4)
Revocation (foreign entities)
(2) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for two (2) months or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-25-301(2)-(3)
And also
A corporation administratively dissolved continues its corporate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-24-202(c)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
(23) Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution 70.00 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-11-303(a)(23), (a)(32)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
Whenever a domestic or foreign corporation authorized to do business ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-15-104(b)
One more thing to skip: the Tennessee annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Tennessee 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.
The annual report fee for LLCs is $300 minimum up to a maximum of $3000. ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.tn.gov/businesses/faqs
Annual report fee, corporation
$20 a year.
The annual report fee for a corporation is $20, and an additional ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.tn.gov/businesses/faqs
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.