WA registered agent
Washington registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
Washington 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 Washington puts on the label
The label
Straight from the Washington code, no markdown:
... or (c) A government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality ... that serves as the registered agent of an entity.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.405; 23.95.105(22); 23.95.410; 23.95.415(1)
The Washington annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year Washington 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
$70 a year, tax not included.
(p) Annual report Seventy dollars
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: WAC 434-112-085(7)(p)
Annual report tag, corporation
$70 a year, tax not included.
(p) Annual report Seventy dollars
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: WAC 434-112-085(7)(p)
The restocking fee, as charged by Washington
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
... to dissolve a domestic entity administratively if: ... (3) The entity does not have a registered agent in this state for thirty ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.605(3); procedure and effect at RCW 23.95.610
Out-of-state authority, returned
... (d) The entity does not deliver to the secretary of state for filing a statement of change under RCW 23.95.430 if change occurs in the name or address of the entity's registered agent
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.550(1)(c)-(d)
No entry to the courthouse
... unless it is registered to do business in this state and has paid to this state all fees and penalties for the years, or parts thereof, during which it did business in this state without having ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.505(2)
Also on the shelf
... equal to all fees which would have been imposed by this chapter upon the entity had it applied for and received a certificate of registration ... plus all penalties imposed by this chapter for ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.505(5)
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
... (4) The secretary of state shall be an agent of the entity for service of process if process, notice, or demand cannot be served on an entity pursuant to subsection (1), (2), or (3) of this section.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.450(2)-(4)
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... the period of administrative dissolution had the entity been in active status, plus a penalty fee established by the secretary of state by rule, and the license or renewal fee for the year of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.615(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.