VT registered agent
Registered agent service in Vermont. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Vermont 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 Vermont
Requirement
The Vermont code provides:
... (1) a registered office that may be the same as any of its places of business; and (2) a registered agent for service of process pursuant to 11 V.S.A. § 1655, whose business office is identical with ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 5.01; 11 V.S.A. § 4007
Service of process in our absence
Vermont provides for service on an agentless company elsewhere in its code. We have not read it.
Enforcement in Vermont
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Revocation of foreign authority
... the foreign corporation is without a registered agent for service of process or registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(a)(3)-(4)
Revocation of foreign authority
... if: (1) the company does not: ... (B) appoint and maintain an agent for service of process as required by section 4007 of this title; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4117(a)(1)(B)-(C)
Further
... appoints the Secretary of State the foreign corporation's agent for service of process in any proceeding based on ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(d)
Loss of standing to sue
... this State without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding or raise a counterclaim, crossclaim, or affirmative defense in any court in this State until it obtains a certificate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.02(a); 11 V.S.A. § 4119(a)(1)
Pecuniary penalty
... to the State for: (1) a civil penalty of $50.00 for each day, not to exceed a total of $10,000.00 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4119(e)(1)-(2)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... satisfaction of the Secretary of State that each ground cited in the notice of termination does not exist, and pays to the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(e); 11A V.S.A. § 1.22(d); 11 V.S.A. § 4012(a)(17)
The Vermont annual report, which you may also decline
Vermont 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
$45 per annum.
Annual report of a domestic limited liability company $45.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4012
Annual report, corporation
$60 per annum.
(17) Annual report of a domestic corporation $60.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 1.22(a)(17)
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.