NY registered agent
New York registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
New York 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 New York puts on the label
The label
Straight from the New York code, no markdown:
... The agent shall be a natural person who is a resident of or has a business address in this state or a domestic corporation or foreign corporation of any type or kind formed, or authorized to do business in this state, under this chapter or under any other statute of this state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 305(a); N.Y. Ltd. Liab. Co. Law § 302(a)-(b)
The New York annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year New York 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
$9 a year, tax not included.
... a Biennial Statement for a business corporation or LLC is ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://dos.ny.gov/faqs-corporations-business-entities
Annual report tag, corporation
$9 a year, tax not included.
... to section four hundred eight of this chapter with the department of state, nine ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 104-A(r)
The restocking fee, as charged by New York
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.
Also on the shelf
... receipt of process with the secretary of state, its authority to do business in this state shall be suspended unless the corporation has previously filed a statement under section four hundred ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 306-A(b)-(c)
Penalty, priced by the state
... shall be removed from the records of the department of state upon the filing of the current statement required by section four hundred eight of this article, and the payment of a fine of two ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 409(1)-(2)
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
... (b) No domestic or foreign corporation may be formed or authorized to do business in this state under this chapter unless in its certificate of incorporation or application for authority it designates the secretary of state as such agent.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law §§ 304(a)-(b), 306(b); N.Y. Ltd. Liab. Co. Law § 303(a)
The price of getting the company back
incFACTS has no verified reinstatement fee for New York 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.