NC registered agent
Registered agent service in North Carolina. $24 a year. Yes.
Every North Carolina 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 North Carolina
Requirement
The North Carolina code provides:
... An individual who resides in this State and whose business office is identical with the registered office; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-30(a)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... agent in this State, or when its registered agent cannot with due diligence be found ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-33(b)
Enforcement in North Carolina
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 this State ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-14-20(3)-(4); § 55-14-21(b); § 57D-6-06(a)(3)-(4)
Revocation of foreign authority
... to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-15-30(a)(3)-(4); § 55-15-31(d); § 57D-7-30(a)(3)-(4)
Further
... an administrative dissolution or revocation of registration as a limited liability partnership, the expiration of five years after the effective date of the administrative dissolution ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-21(d)(2)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... under G.S. 55-14-21 may apply to the Secretary of State for reinstatement...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-14-22; § 55-1-22(a)(16)
The North Carolina annual report, which you may also decline
North Carolina 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
$200 per annum.
(28) Annual report $200.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. 57D-1-22(a)(28)
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.