VT registered agent
Vermont registered agent service, $5 a year
Vermont requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Vermont law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Vermont requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Vermont code:
Each corporation must continuously maintain in this State: (1) a registered office that may be the same as any of its places of business; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 5.01; 11 V.S.A. § 4007
How we comply
We don't.
What Vermont 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)
The Secretary of State shall terminate the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation if: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(a)(3)-(4)
Revocation (foreign entities)
The Secretary of State may revoke a certificate of authority of a foreign limited liability company to transact business in this State ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4117(a)(1)(B)-(C)
And also
The Secretary of State's termination of a foreign corporation's ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(d)
No access to the courts
A foreign corporation transacting business in this State without ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.02(a); 11 V.S.A. § 4119(a)(1)
Civil penalty
A foreign limited liability company that transacts business in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4119(e)(1)-(2)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
If the foreign corporation corrects each ground for termination ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(e); 11A V.S.A. § 1.22(d); 11 V.S.A. § 4012(a)(17)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. Vermont 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 Vermont annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Vermont 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
$45 a year.
Annual report of a domestic limited liability company $45.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4012
Annual report fee, corporation
$60 a year.
(17) Annual report of a domestic corporation $60.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 1.22(a)(17)
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.