GA registered agent
Registered agent service in Georgia. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Georgia 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 Georgia
Requirement
The Georgia code provides:
... (2) A registered agent, who may be: (A) A person who resides ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-501; sec. 14-11-209(a)-(b)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... State shall be an agent of such limited liability company upon whom any process, notice, or demand may be served. ... The ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-504(b); sec. 14-2-1510(b); sec. 14-11-209(f)
Enforcement in Georgia
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 registered agent or registered office in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1420(3)-(4); sec. 14-11-603(b)(1)(B)-(C)
Revocation of foreign authority
... (3) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for 60 days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1530(3)-(4); sec. 14-2-1531(d)
Loss of standing to sue
... in any court in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority. (b) Each foreign corporation that has not obtained a certificate of authority within 30 calendar days after the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1502(a)-(b)
Pecuniary penalty
... penalty for a foreign corporation transacting business in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-122(10)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... to the Secretary of State for reinstatement within five years after the effective date of such dissolution. The application ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1422(a); sec. 14-2-122(12); sec. 14-11-603(b)(4); sec. 14-11-1101(a)(16)
The Georgia annual report, which you may also decline
Georgia 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
$60 per annum.
... an annual registration with the Secretary of State between January 1 and April 1 of each ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.ga.gov/how-to-guide/how-guide-register-domestic-entity
Annual report, corporation
$60 per annum.
... Registration (Profit Corp., Professional Corp., Benefit Corp., LLC, LP, LLLP, Trust ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: GA SOS Corporations Division Filing Fees (Rev. 8/2025, eff. 9/6/2025)
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.