VA registered agent
Registered agent service in Virginia. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Virginia 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 Virginia
Requirement
The Virginia code provides:
... of the corporation or (ii) a member of the Virginia State Bar and whose business office ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-634(A)(2) (corporations); § 13.1-1015(A)(2) (LLCs); § 13.1-763 (foreign corporations)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... in this Commonwealth, or whenever its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office, then the clerk of the Commission shall be an agent of the corporation ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-637(B); parallel provisions at § 13.1-1018(B) (LLC) and § 13.1-766(B) (foreign corp)
Enforcement in Virginia
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... change pursuant to § 13.1-635 within 31 days ... the Commission shall mail notice to the corporation of the impending ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-752(B); parallel LLC provision at § 13.1-1050.2(B)
Administrative dissolution by the state
... Commission when it finds that the corporation ... (ii) has failed to maintain a registered office or a registered agent in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-753(A)(ii); parallel LLC provision at § 13.1-1050.3(A)(2)
Revocation of foreign authority
... the Commission shall mail notice to the foreign corporation of the impending revocation of its certificate of authority. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-768(C); § 13.1-769(A)(2)
Loss of standing to sue
... business in the Commonwealth without a certificate of authority may not ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-758(A)
Pecuniary penalty
... certificate of authority, each officer, director, and employee who does any of such business in the Commonwealth ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-758(D)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... 2. A reinstatement fee of $100; 3. All annual registration fees ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-754(B)(2)-(3); § 13.1-769.1(B)(2); § 13.1-1050.4(B)(2)
The Virginia annual report, which you may also decline
Virginia 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
$50 per annum.
an annual registration fee of $50
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title13.1/chapter12/section13.1-1062/
Annual report, corporation
$100 per annum.
... REGISTRATION FEE SCHEDULE ... STOCK CORPORATION: Authorized shares Fee 1 - 5,000 $ 100 ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: SCC 'Annual Corporation Requirements' / Annual Registration Fee Schedule (rev. 02/26), citing Va. Code 13.1-775.1
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.