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:
... (2) An individual resident in this State; (3) A domestic corporation (other than the corporation itself), a domestic partnership ..., a domestic limited liability company or a domestic statutory trust; ...
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.
... 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
... prior to the expiration of the period of 30 days after the filing by the registered agent of the certificate of resignation, the Secretary of State shall declare the charter of such ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 136(b); see § 132(f)(4)
Out-of-state authority, returned
... prior to the expiration of the period of 30 days after the filing by the registered agent of the certificate of resignation, the Secretary of State shall forfeit its authority to do business in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 136(b); see § 132(f)(4)
Also on the shelf
... prior to the expiration of the period of 30 days after the filing by the registered agent of the certificate of resignation, the certificate of formation of such limited liability company shall be ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 6 Del. C. § 18-104(d); see § 18-104(i)(4)
Penalty, priced by the state
... franchise tax report with the Secretary of State on or before March 1, the corporation shall pay the sum of $200 to be recovered by adding that amount to the franchise tax as herein determined and ...
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
... It shall be the duty of the plaintiff in the event of such service to serve process and any other papers in duplicate, to notify the Secretary of State that service is being effected pursuant to this subsection, and to pay the Secretary of State the sum of $50 for the use of the State ...
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.