PA registered agent
Registered agent service in Pennsylvania. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania
Requirement
The Pennsylvania code provides:
... maintain in this Commonwealth a registered office which may, but need not, be the same as its place of business.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 1507(a); see also §§ 109, 411(f), 8825(a)
Service of process in our absence
Pennsylvania provides for service on an agentless company elsewhere in its code. We have not read it.
Enforcement in Pennsylvania
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... to administratively dissolve a domestic filing entity ... if the entity does not deliver an annual report to the department within six months after the annual report is due.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 381(a); § 382
Revocation of foreign authority
The department may terminate the registration of a registered foreign association ... if the department finds that the association: (1) has not amended its registration when required by section 413 ...; (2) has been administratively, voluntarily or involuntarily dissolved under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 419(a), (d)
Loss of standing to sue
... partnership doing business in this Commonwealth may not maintain an action or proceeding in this Commonwealth unless it is registered to do business under this chapter.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 411(b)
Restoration
incFACTS has not yet verified the Pennsylvania restoration fee. We have not enquired.
The Pennsylvania annual report, which you may also decline
Pennsylvania 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
$7 per annum.
... report delivered to the bureau electronically ... 7 (iii) Annual report not delivered to the bureau electronically ... 7
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 153(a)(18)(ii)-(iii)
Annual report, corporation
$7 per annum.
... Annual report delivered to the bureau electronically ... 7
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 153(a)(18)(ii)-(iii)
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.