VA registered agent
Virginia registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
Virginia 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 Virginia puts on the label
The label
Straight from the Virginia code, no markdown:
... provided such a registered agent (i) shall not be its own registered agent...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-634(A)(2) (corporations); § 13.1-1015(A)(2) (LLCs); § 13.1-763 (foreign corporations)
The Virginia annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year Virginia 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
$50 a year, tax not included.
an annual registration fee of $50
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title13.1/chapter12/section13.1-1062/
Annual report tag, corporation
$100 a year, tax not included.
... STOCK CORPORATION: Authorized shares Fee 1 - 5,000 $ 100 ... over 270,000 ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: SCC 'Annual Corporation Requirements' / Annual Registration Fee Schedule (rev. 02/26), citing Va. Code 13.1-775.1
The restocking fee, as charged by Virginia
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
... If the corporation fails to file the statement of change before the last day of the second month immediately following the month in which the impending termination notice was mailed, the corporate existence of the corporation shall be automatically terminated as of that day.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-752(B); parallel LLC provision at § 13.1-1050.2(B)
Pulled from the shelf by the state
... office or a registered agent in this Commonwealth as required by law ... Upon termination, the properties and affairs of the corporation shall pass automatically to its directors as ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-753(A)(ii); parallel LLC provision at § 13.1-1050.3(A)(2)
Out-of-state authority, returned
... If the foreign corporation fails to file the statement of change before the last day of the second month immediately following the month in which the impending revocation notice was mailed, the corporation shall automatically cease to be authorized to transact business in the Commonwealth and its certificate of authority shall be automatically revoked as of that day.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-768(C); § 13.1-769(A)(2)
No entry to the courthouse
... a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in the Commonwealth until it obtains a certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-758(A)
Penalty, priced by the state
... director, and employee who does any of such business in the Commonwealth knowing that a certificate of authority is required shall be liable for a penalty of not less than $500 and not more ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-758(D)
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
... agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office, then the clerk of the Commission shall be an agent of the corporation upon whom service may be made in accordance with ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-637(B); parallel provisions at § 13.1-1018(B) (LLC) and § 13.1-766(B) (foreign corp)
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... All annual registration fees and penalties that were due before the corporation ceased to exist and that would have been assessed or imposed to the date of reinstatement if the corporation's existence had not been terminated
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-754(B)(2)-(3); § 13.1-769.1(B)(2); § 13.1-1050.4(B)(2)
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.