AL registered agent
Registered agent service in Alabama, $37 per year, within tolerance
Alabama expects each company on its register to keep a registered agent at a street address inside the state. The expectation is set out below in the state's own language. Our performance against it is rated further down. The rating has been consistent.
The Alabama annual report, an average obligation
Annual report charge, LLC
Alabama bills no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. There is nothing to economize on here, which we found unremarkable.
... Domestic For-Profit Corporations, Foreign For-Profit Corporations, Professional ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: ALDOR Notice: Important Changes to the 2024 Business Privilege Tax Filing Requirements
Annual report charge, corporation
Alabama bills no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. There is nothing to economize on here, which we found unremarkable.
... to transact business in Alabama are no longer required by law to file an annual report ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: AL SOS Business Entities page
Expectations set by Alabama
Expectation
As set out in the Alabama code:
(b) A registered agent: (1) is an agent of the entity on which may be served any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the entity; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-5.31(b)-(c) (as amended by Act 2026-495, effective Aug. 1, 2026)
Performance against expectations
Does not meet. Consistently. We regard the consistency as the achievement.
Delivery of papers when the desk is unattended
Service by other means
... agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served with process as provided by the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure and may be served with any other notice or demand ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-5.35
Corrective action available to Alabama
Where an agent performs at our level, the state applies the following. Quoted from the code without adjustment, because adjusting it would take effort we have allocated elsewhere.
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... (3) the foreign entity does not file a statement of change of registered agent or registered office with the Secretary of State under Section 10A-1-5.32 within 60 days of the change ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-7.12(2)-(3)
Standing in court withdrawn
... the validity of any contract or act of the foreign entity and shall not prevent the foreign entity from defending any action or proceeding in any court of this state, but the foreign entity shall ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ala. Code § 10A-1-7.22(a)
Return to good standing, priced
incFACTS carries no verified figure for returning a Alabama company to good standing at present. We have not requested one. A request would be above average.
Quoted statutory text was captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and re-checked against the code on 2026-08-10. Statutes are revised at their own pace. This page is revised at ours.