WV registered agent
West Virginia registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
West 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 West Virginia puts on the label
The label
Straight from the West Virginia code, no markdown:
... or (C) A foreign corporation or foreign nonprofit corporation authorized to transact business in this state whose business office is identical with the registered office.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-5-501; § 31B-1-108(a)-(b)
The West Virginia annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year West 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
$25 a year, tax not included.
... $25 for the services of the Secretary of State as ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://code.wvlegislature.gov/59-1-2A/
Annual report tag, corporation
$25 a year, tax not included.
... limited liability company, and foreign limited liability company ... shall pay an annual report fee ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://code.wvlegislature.gov/59-1-2A/
The restocking fee, as charged by West 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
... that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-14-1420(a)(2)
Out-of-state authority, returned
... that its registered agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has resigned or that its registered office has been discontinued within sixty days of the change, resignation or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-15-1530(2)
Out-of-state authority, returned
... statement of a change in the name or business address of the agent as required by this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31B-10-1006(a)(1)(iii)
No entry to the courthouse
... a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any circuit court in this state until it obtains a certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-15-1502(a)
Also on the shelf
... The application must: ... (4) Contain a certificate from the Tax Commissioner reciting that all taxes owed by the corporation have been paid.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-14-1422(a)
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
... state or the agent for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent's address, the Secretary of State is an agent of the company upon whom process, notice or demand ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31B-1-111(b); see also § 31D-5-504(b)-(c)
The price of getting the company back
incFACTS has no verified reinstatement fee for West Virginia 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.