MD registered agent
Maryland registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
Maryland 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 Maryland puts on the label
The label
Straight from the Maryland code, no markdown:
... liability company, or limited partnership whose name, address, and designation as a resident agent are filed or recorded with the Department in accordance with the provisions of this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass'ns § 1-101(x); see also §§ 2-108(a), 4A-210(a)
The Maryland annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year Maryland 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, LLC
$300 a year, tax not included.
Domestic or Foreign Limited Liability Company (W) or (Z) ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code, Corps. & Ass'ns 1-203(b)(3)(ii)
Annual report tag, corporation
$300 a year, tax not included.
Domestic or Foreign Stock Corporation (D) or (F) $300
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code, Corps. & Ass'ns 1-203(b)(3)(ii)
The restocking fee, as charged by Maryland
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.
Out-of-state authority, returned
... (2) The corporation does not forfeit its right to do intrastate business under the laws of this State ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass'ns § 7-203(c)
Also on the shelf
... or (2) With a resident agent who cannot be found or served with the exercise of reasonable diligence.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass'ns § 7-205(b)
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
... or (2) With a resident agent who cannot be found or served with the exercise of reasonable diligence.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass'ns § 7-205(b); see also §§ 4A-1002(b)(5), 1-401
The price of getting the company back
incFACTS has no verified reinstatement fee for Maryland 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.