UT registered agent
Registered agent service in Utah. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Utah 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 Utah
Requirement
The Utah code provides:
... and that is: (a) an individual or a domestic or foreign entity that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-17-102(14); see also 16-17-202, 16-17-203(1), 48-3a-111(1)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... a registered agent, or if its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-17-301(2)-(3)
Enforcement in Utah
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... a corporation if: ... (3) the corporation is without a registered agent in this state for 30 days or more; (4) the corporation does not give notice to ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1420(3)-(4); procedure at 16-10a-1421
Administrative dissolution by the state
... under Subsections (2) and (3) to dissolve a limited liability company administratively if the limited liability company does not: ... (c) have a registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-708(1)(c)
Revocation of foreign authority
... business in this state if: ... (3) the foreign corporation is without a registered agent in this state for 30 days or more; (4) the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1530(3)-(4); procedure at 16-10a-1531
Revocation of foreign authority
... (2) and (3) if the foreign limited liability company does not: ... (c) have a registered agent as required by Section 48-3a-111; or (d) deliver to the division for filing a statement of a change under ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-910(1)(c)-(d)
Loss of standing to sue
... this state without authority, or anyone in its behalf, may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1502(1); 48-3a-902(2)
Pecuniary penalty
... for each day in which it transacts business in this state without authority. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1502(4)-(5)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... taxes, interest, and penalties that were due to the division at ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-709(4); 16-10a-1422(1)(a)(vi)-(vii), (1)(b)
The Utah annual report, which you may also decline
Utah 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
$18 per annum.
*Domestic/foreign limited liability company (LLC) $18
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: FY2026 Fee Schedule sec. 3 Renewal/Annual Report Filings
Annual report, corporation
$18 per annum.
*Domestic/foreign corporation $18
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: FY2026 Fee Schedule sec. 3 Renewal/Annual Report Filings
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.