AZ registered agent
Registered agent service in Arizona, $37 per year, within tolerance
Arizona 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 Arizona annual report, an average obligation
Arizona bills each company annually to remain on the register. The amount is below. Paying it is standard practice. Not paying it is also a practice, and the rest of this page describes it.
Annual report charge, LLC
Arizona bills no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. There is nothing to economize on here, which we found unremarkable.
... Only corporations are required to file annual reports.
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Arizona Corporation Commission, Business Services FAQs, 'Annual Reports' Q1 (also LLC section Q17)
Annual report charge, corporation
$45 per year. Average.
Annual Report – For-profit corporation $45.00 $80.00
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://azcc.gov/docs/default-source/corps-files/fee-schedules/fee-schedule-corporations6def4cc74b1a47129d16c2b1c3851bda.pdf
Expectations set by Arizona
Expectation
As set out in the Arizona code:
... (d) A limited liability company formed under title 29. (e) A limited liability company authorized to transact business in this state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-501 (corporations); § 29-3115(B) (LLCs)
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
... If service is made on the commission, whether under this chapter or a rule of court, the corporation has thirty days to respond in addition to the time otherwise provided by law.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-504(B) (corporations); § 29-3119(B)-(C) (LLCs)
Corrective action available to Arizona
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.
Dissolution, administrative
... The corporation does not notify the commission within sixty days that its statutory agent or known place of business has been changed, that its statutory agent has resigned or that its principal office has been discontinued.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1420(3)-(4), § 10-1421; § 29-3708(A)(2), (4) (LLCs)
Additionally
... six months after the effective date of the dissolution, the commission shall release the corporate name for use in accordance with chapters 1 through 17 of this title or by a person intending to ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1421(C); § 29-3709(B) (LLCs)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... The foreign corporation does not inform the commission that its statutory agent or known place of business has changed or that its statutory agent has resigned within sixty days after the change or resignation.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1530(3)-(4); § 10-1531
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... must pay all fees and penalties that were due to the commission at the time of the company's administrative dissolution and all fees and penalties that would have been due to the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 29-3709(A), (E); § 10-1422(A); § 10-122(A)(13); § 29-3213(A)(12)
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.