WV registered agent
West Virginia registered agent service, $5 a year
West Virginia requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what West Virginia law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What West Virginia requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the West Virginia code:
Each corporation may 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: W. Va. Code § 31D-5-501; § 31B-1-108(a)-(b)
How we comply
We don't.
What West 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
(2) The corporation does not notify the Secretary of State within ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-14-1420(a)(2)
Revocation (foreign entities)
(2) The foreign corporation does not inform the Secretary of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-15-1530(2)
Revocation (foreign entities)
(1) The company fails to: ... (iii) File a statement of a change ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31B-10-1006(a)(1)(iii)
No access to the courts
A foreign corporation transacting business in this state without ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-15-1502(a)
And also
A corporation administratively dissolved under section one thousand ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-14-1422(a)
The bill to come back
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. incFACTS carries no human-verified reinstatement fee for West Virginia in the registered agent dataset, and we are not the kind of company that checks.
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
If a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31B-1-111(b); see also § 31D-5-504(b)-(c)
One more thing to skip: the West Virginia annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. West 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
$25 a year.
shall pay an annual report fee of $25 for the services of the ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://code.wvlegislature.gov/59-1-2A/
Annual report fee, corporation
$25 a year.
each corporation, limited partnership, domestic limited liability company, and foreign limited liability company ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://code.wvlegislature.gov/59-1-2A/
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.