TN registered agent
Registered agent service in Tennessee. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Tennessee 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 Tennessee
Requirement
The Tennessee code provides:
... and who may be: (A) An individual who resides in this state, a domestic corporation, a not-for-profit domestic corporation, a domestic LLC, a domestic general partnership, a domestic ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-15-101(a)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... with reasonable diligence, whenever a foreign corporation shall transact business or conduct affairs in this state without first procuring ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-15-104(b)
Enforcement in Tennessee
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... (2) Corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for two (2) months or more; ... (4) Corporation does not notify the secretary of state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-24-201(2), (4)
Administrative dissolution by the state
... The LLC is without a registered agent or registered office in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-249-604(2), (4)
Revocation of foreign authority
... (3) The foreign corporation does not inform the secretary of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-25-301(2)-(3)
Further
... corporate existence but may not carry on any business except that necessary to ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-24-202(c)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... for reinstatement following administrative dissolution 70.00 ... (32) Application ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-11-303(a)(23), (a)(32)
The Tennessee annual report, which you may also decline
Tennessee 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
$300 per annum.
... LLCs is $300 minimum up to a maximum of $3000. The fee increases by an additional $50 per member for ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.tn.gov/businesses/faqs
Annual report, corporation
$20 per annum.
... fee for a corporation is $20, and an additional $20 is required if any change ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.tn.gov/businesses/faqs
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.