GA registered agent
Registered agent service in Georgia, $37 per year, within tolerance
Georgia 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 Georgia annual report, an average obligation
Georgia 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
$60 per year. Average.
... The fee is $60.00 ($50 filing fee + $10 service charge).
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.ga.gov/how-to-guide/how-guide-register-domestic-entity
Annual report charge, corporation
$60 per year. Average.
... (Profit Corp., Professional Corp., Benefit Corp., LLC, LP, LLLP, Trust ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: GA SOS Corporations Division Filing Fees (Rev. 8/2025, eff. 9/6/2025)
Expectations set by Georgia
Expectation
As set out in the Georgia code:
... and (2) A registered agent, who may be: (A) A person who resides in this state and whose business office is identical with the registered office; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-501; sec. 14-11-209(a)-(b)
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
... The plaintiff or his or her attorney shall certify in writing to the Secretary of State that the limited liability company failed either to maintain a registered office or appoint a registered agent in this state and that he or she has forwarded by registered or certified mail or statutory overnight delivery such process, notice, or demand to the most recent registered office ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-504(b); sec. 14-2-1510(b); sec. 14-11-209(f)
Corrective action available to Georgia
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
... (4) The corporation does not notify the Secretary of State within 60 days that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1420(3)-(4); sec. 14-11-603(b)(1)(B)-(C)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... (4) The foreign corporation does not inform the Secretary of State under Code Section 14-2-1508 or 14-2-1509 that its registered agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued within 60 days ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1530(3)-(4); sec. 14-2-1531(d)
Standing in court withdrawn
... (b) Each foreign corporation that has not obtained a certificate of authority within 30 calendar days after the first day on which it transacts business in this state shall be liable for the civil penalty set out in Code Section 14-2-122.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1502(a)-(b)
Penalty, civil
... for a foreign corporation transacting business in this state without a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-122(10)
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... The application shall: ... (5) Be accompanied by the fee required for the application for reinstatement contained in Code Section 14-2-122.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: O.C.G.A. sec. 14-2-1422(a); sec. 14-2-122(12); sec. 14-11-603(b)(4); sec. 14-11-1101(a)(16)
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.