NJ registered agent
Registered agent service in New Jersey. $24 a year. Yes.
Every New Jersey 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 New Jersey
Requirement
The New Jersey code provides:
... transact business in this State, whether or not any such agent corporation is organized for ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-1(1), (3); N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14(c)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... the agent for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent's street address, the filing office ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-17(b)-(c)
Enforcement in New Jersey
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Revocation of foreign authority
... be revoked by the Secretary of State upon the conditions prescribed in this section when ... (c) the corporation has ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-10(1)(c)
Further
... to designate a new registered agent within said 30-day period, the corporation shall thereafter be deemed to have no registered agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-4(3)
Loss of standing to sue
... in this State without a certificate of authority shall maintain any action or proceeding in any court of this State, until ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-11(1)
Pecuniary penalty
... of authority shall forfeit to the State a penalty of not less ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-11(3)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... consisting of a reinstatement filing fee of $75.00, tax clearance filing fee of $20, current annual report fee, and all delinquent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-5(7)
The New Jersey annual report, which you may also decline
New Jersey 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
$75 per annum.
... Liability Company (LLC) Filing ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-93 ('Upon filing of an annual report, a fee in the amount of $75.00')
Annual report, corporation
$75 per annum.
Annual Report - corporate and LP $75.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:15-2 ('for each such report required to be filed...... $75.00')
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.