TN registered agent
Tennessee registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
Tennessee 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 Tennessee puts on the label
The label
Straight from the Tennessee code, no markdown:
... or (B) A foreign corporation, a not-for-profit foreign corporation, a foreign LLC, a foreign general partnership, a foreign limited partnership, or a foreign registered limited liability partnership that is authorized to transact business in this state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-15-101(a)
The Tennessee annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year Tennessee 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.
... The fee increases by an additional $50 per member for every member over 6 members up to a maximum of $3,000.
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.tn.gov/businesses/faqs
Annual report tag, corporation
$20 a year, tax not included.
... and an additional $20 is required if any change is made concerning the registered agent/registered ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.tn.gov/businesses/faqs
The restocking fee, as charged by Tennessee
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
... (4) Corporation does not notify the secretary of state within two (2) months that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-24-201(2), (4)
Pulled from the shelf by the state
... (4) The LLC does not notify the secretary of state within two (2) months that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-249-604(2), (4)
Out-of-state authority, returned
... (3) The foreign corporation does not inform the secretary of state under § 48-25-108 or § 48-25-109 that its registered agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued within two (2) months of the change, resignation, or discontinuance;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-25-301(2)-(3)
Also on the shelf
... may not carry on any business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under § 48-24-105 and notify claimants under §§ 48-24-106 and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-24-202(c)
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 whenever the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation shall have been withdrawn or revoked, then the secretary of state shall be an agent of such corporation upon whom any such ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-15-104(b)
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... dissolution 70.00 ... (32) Application for reinstatement following administrative revocation ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-11-303(a)(23), (a)(32)
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.