VT registered agent
Vermont registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
Vermont 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 Vermont puts on the label
The label
Straight from the Vermont code, no markdown:
... § 1655, whose business office is identical with the registered office.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 5.01; 11 V.S.A. § 4007
The Vermont annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year Vermont 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
$45 a year, tax not included.
Annual report of a domestic limited liability company $45.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4012
Annual report tag, corporation
$60 a year, tax not included.
(17) Annual report of a domestic corporation $60.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 1.22(a)(17)
The restocking fee, as charged by Vermont
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
... (4) the foreign corporation fails to inform the Secretary of State under section 15.08 or 15.09 of this title that its registered agent for service of process or registered office has changed
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(a)(3)-(4)
Out-of-state authority, returned
... or (C) deliver for filing a statement of change under section 4008 of this title within 30 days after a change has occurred in the name or address of the agent
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4117(a)(1)(B)-(C)
Also on the shelf
... for service of process in any proceeding based on a cause of action that arose during the time the foreign corporation was authorized to transact or was transacting without authorization business ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(d)
No entry to the courthouse
... of authority may not maintain a proceeding or raise a counterclaim, crossclaim, or affirmative defense in any court in this State until it obtains a certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.02(a); 11 V.S.A. § 4119(a)(1)
Penalty, priced by the state
... (2) an amount equal to the fees due under this chapter during the period it transacted business in this State without a certificate of authority
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4119(e)(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
Vermont keeps its fallback rule for serving a company with no working agent in another part of the code. We did not walk that far.
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... of termination does not exist, and pays to the Secretary of State a reinstatement fee of $25.00 for each year it is delinquent, the secretary may cancel the termination and prepare a certificate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(e); 11A V.S.A. § 1.22(d); 11 V.S.A. § 4012(a)(17)
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.