VA registered agent
Virginia registered agent service, $5 a year
Virginia requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Virginia law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Virginia requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Virginia code:
2. A registered agent, who shall be: a. An individual who is ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-634(A)(2) (corporations); § 13.1-1015(A)(2) (LLCs); § 13.1-763 (foreign corporations)
How we comply
We don't.
What Virginia 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
If any domestic corporation whose registered agent has filed ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-752(B); parallel LLC provision at § 13.1-1050.2(B)
Administrative dissolution
The corporate existence of a corporation may be terminated involuntarily by order of the Commission when it finds that the corporation ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-753(A)(ii); parallel LLC provision at § 13.1-1050.3(A)(2)
Revocation (foreign entities)
If any foreign corporation whose registered agent has filed with ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-768(C); § 13.1-769(A)(2)
No access to the courts
A foreign corporation transacting business in the Commonwealth ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-758(A)
Civil penalty
If a foreign corporation transacts business in the Commonwealth ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-758(D)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
To have its corporate existence reinstated, the corporation shall provide the Commission with the following: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-754(B)(2)-(3); § 13.1-769.1(B)(2); § 13.1-1050.4(B)(2)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
Whenever a corporation fails to appoint or maintain a registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-637(B); parallel provisions at § 13.1-1018(B) (LLC) and § 13.1-766(B) (foreign corp)
One more thing to skip: the Virginia annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Virginia 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
$50 a year.
an annual registration fee of $50
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title13.1/chapter12/section13.1-1062/
Annual report fee, corporation
$100 a year.
ANNUAL REGISTRATION FEE SCHEDULE ... STOCK CORPORATION: Authorized ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: SCC 'Annual Corporation Requirements' / Annual Registration Fee Schedule (rev. 02/26), citing Va. Code 13.1-775.1
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.