PA registered agent
Registered agent service in Pennsylvania, $37 per year, within tolerance
Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania annual report, an average obligation
Pennsylvania 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
$7 per year. Average.
... or foreign association: ... (ii) Annual report delivered to the bureau electronically ... 7 (iii) Annual report not ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 153(a)(18)(ii)-(iii)
Annual report charge, corporation
$7 per year. Average.
... Annual report delivered to the bureau electronically ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 153(a)(18)(ii)-(iii)
Expectations set by Pennsylvania
Expectation
As set out in the Pennsylvania code:
... corporation shall have and continuously maintain in this Commonwealth a registered office which may, but need not, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 1507(a); see also §§ 109, 411(f), 8825(a)
Performance against expectations
Does not meet. Consistently. We regard the consistency as the achievement.
Delivery of papers when the desk is unattended
Pennsylvania keeps its rule for serving a company with an absent agent in another part of the code. We reviewed the table of contents and found it adequate.
Corrective action available to Pennsylvania
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
... under section 382 (relating to procedure and effect) to administratively dissolve a domestic filing entity ... if the entity does not deliver an annual report to the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 381(a); § 382
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... or (3) has failed to deliver to the department for filing an annual report under section 146 ... within six months after it is due.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 419(a), (d)
Standing in court withdrawn
... foreign filing association or foreign limited liability partnership doing business in this Commonwealth may not maintain an action or proceeding in this Commonwealth ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 411(b)
Return to good standing, priced
incFACTS carries no verified figure for returning a Pennsylvania 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.