AZ registered agent
Registered agent service in Arizona. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Arizona company must appoint a registered agent at a street address in the state. What follows is the statute, quoted where it matters, and our position on it, which is brief.
The statutory requirement in Arizona
Requirement
The Arizona code provides:
... 2. A statutory agent who may be either: (a) An individual who resides in this state. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-501 (corporations); § 29-3115(B) (LLCs)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... on whom process, notice or demand may be served. ... the commission shall immediately cause one of the copies ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-504(B) (corporations); § 29-3119(B)-(C) (LLCs)
Enforcement in Arizona
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... The corporation is without a statutory agent or known place of business in this state for sixty days or more. 4. The corporation does not notify the commission within sixty days that its statutory ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1420(3)-(4), § 10-1421; § 29-3708(A)(2), (4) (LLCs)
Further
... effective date of the dissolution, the commission shall release the corporate name for use ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1421(C); § 29-3709(B) (LLCs)
Revocation of foreign authority
... any of the following conditions exist: ... 3. The foreign corporation is without a statutory agent or known place of business in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1530(3)-(4); § 10-1531
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... all fees and penalties that were due to the commission at the time of the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 29-3709(A), (E); § 10-1422(A); § 10-122(A)(13); § 29-3213(A)(12)
The Arizona annual report, which you may also decline
Arizona levies an annual charge to keep a company in good standing. The amount is below. Declining it is consistent with everything else on this page.
Annual report, limited liability company
Arizona levies no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. There is nothing to decline.
... annual reports? No, LLCs are not required to file annual reports. ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Arizona Corporation Commission, Business Services FAQs, 'Annual Reports' Q1 (also LLC section Q17)
Annual report, corporation
$45 per annum.
Annual Report – For-profit corporation $45.00 $80.00
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://azcc.gov/docs/default-source/corps-files/fee-schedules/fee-schedule-corporations6def4cc74b1a47129d16c2b1c3851bda.pdf
Our position
We decline. At this price you may have expected otherwise.
Statutory text captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01, verified against the code on 2026-08-10. Statutes are amended. This page is not.