WA registered agent
Washington registered agent service, $5 a year
Washington requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Washington law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Washington requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Washington code:
"Noncommercial registered agent" means a person that is not a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.405; 23.95.105(22); 23.95.410; 23.95.415(1)
How we comply
We don't.
What Washington 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 RCW 23.95.610 to dissolve a domestic entity administratively if: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.605(3); procedure and effect at RCW 23.95.610
Revocation (foreign entities)
The secretary of state may terminate the registration of a registered foreign entity in the manner provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section if: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.550(1)(c)-(d)
No access to the courts
A foreign entity doing business in this state may not maintain ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.505(2)
And also
A foreign entity that transacts business in this state without ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.505(5)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
To be reinstated, an entity must pay the full amount of all annual ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.615(2)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
If a represented entity ceases to have a registered agent, or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.450(2)-(4)
One more thing to skip: the Washington annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Washington 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
$70 a year.
(p) Annual report Seventy dollars
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: WAC 434-112-085(7)(p)
Annual report fee, corporation
$70 a year.
(p) Annual report Seventy dollars
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: WAC 434-112-085(7)(p)
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.