WA registered agent
Registered agent service in Washington. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Washington 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 Washington
Requirement
The Washington code provides:
... domestic or foreign entity that serves in this state as the registered agent of an ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.405; 23.95.105(22); 23.95.410; 23.95.415(1)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, or by similar commercial delivery service, addressed to the entity at the entity's principal office. ... (4) The secretary of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.450(2)-(4)
Enforcement in Washington
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... commence a proceeding under RCW 23.95.610 to dissolve a domestic entity administratively if: ... (3) The entity does ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.605(3); procedure and effect at RCW 23.95.610
Revocation of foreign authority
... subsections (2) and (3) of this section if: ... (c) The entity does not have a registered agent as ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.550(1)(c)-(d)
Loss of standing to sue
... an action or proceeding in this state unless it is registered to do business in this state and has ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.505(2)
Further
... years or parts thereof during which it transacted business in this state without a certificate of registration, in an amount equal to all fees which would have been ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.505(5)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... license or renewal fees which would have been assessed during the period of administrative dissolution had the entity been in active status, plus a penalty fee established by the secretary of state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.615(2)
The Washington annual report, which you may also decline
Washington 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
$70 per annum.
(p) Annual report Seventy dollars
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: WAC 434-112-085(7)(p)
Annual report, corporation
$70 per annum.
(p) Annual report Seventy dollars
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: WAC 434-112-085(7)(p)
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.