DE registered agent
Delaware registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
Delaware makes every corporation and LLC keep a registered agent at a street address inside the state, and it wrote down what that agent has to do. The writing is quoted below. Our contribution to it is a price tag.
What Delaware puts on the label
The label
Straight from the Delaware code, no markdown:
... (b)(2) A registered agent may not perform its duties or functions solely through the use of a virtual office, the retention by the agent of a mail forwarding service, or both.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 132(a), (b); accord 6 Del. C. § 18-104(a) (LLCs)
The Delaware annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year Delaware asks for a payment to keep the company on its shelf. The tag is below. Leaving it in the cart is a saving in exactly the way we are.
Annual report tag, corporation
$50 a year, tax not included.
... Amended Annual Report for non-exempt domestic corporations the filing fee is ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://corp.delaware.gov/frtax/
The restocking fee, as charged by Delaware
When the agent on file is an empty shelf, the state has a checklist. It is quoted here without our commentary, which would only have been about the price.
Pulled from the shelf by the state
... 30 days after the filing by the registered agent of the certificate of resignation, the Secretary of State shall declare ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 136(b); see § 132(f)(4)
Out-of-state authority, returned
... after the filing by the registered agent of the certificate of resignation, the Secretary of State shall ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 136(b); see § 132(f)(4)
Also on the shelf
... after the filing by the registered agent of the certificate of resignation, the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 6 Del. C. § 18-104(d); see § 18-104(i)(4)
Penalty, priced by the state
... or before March 1, the corporation shall pay the sum of $200 to be recovered by adding that amount to the franchise tax ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 502(c); see §§ 510, 502(f)
Our end of the deal
Nineteen dollars. That was our end. The rest of the deal is on backorder.
Lawsuits, when the aisle is empty
Service, rerouted
... service to serve process and any other papers in duplicate, to notify the Secretary of State that service is ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 321(b) [effective until Aug. 1, 2026]; see §§ 136(c), 502(d); 6 Del. C. § 18-105(b) (LLCs)
The price of getting the company back
incFACTS has no verified reinstatement fee for Delaware yet. We have not asked, and the sign on our door would not tell you anyway.
Statute text captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01, then compared with the state's own text on 2026-08-10. Codes get restocked. This page does not.