TN registered agent
Registered agent service in Tennessee, $37 per year, within tolerance
Tennessee 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 Tennessee annual report, an average obligation
Tennessee 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
$300 per year. Average.
... The fee increases by an additional $50 per member for every member over 6 members up to a maximum of $3,000.
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.tn.gov/businesses/faqs
Annual report charge, corporation
$20 per year. Average.
... for a corporation is $20, and an additional $20 is required if any change is made concerning the ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sos.tn.gov/businesses/faqs
Expectations set by Tennessee
Expectation
As set out in the Tennessee code:
... or (B) A foreign corporation, a not-for-profit foreign corporation, a foreign LLC, a foreign general partnership, a foreign limited partnership, or a foreign registered limited liability partnership that is authorized to transact business in this state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-15-101(a)
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
... be found with reasonable diligence, whenever a foreign corporation shall transact business or conduct affairs in this state without first procuring a certificate of authority to do so from the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-15-104(b)
Corrective action available to Tennessee
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) Corporation does not notify the secretary of state within two (2) months 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: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-24-201(2), (4)
Dissolution, administrative
... (4) The LLC does not notify the secretary of state within two (2) months 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: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-249-604(2), (4)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... (3) The foreign corporation does not inform the secretary of state under § 48-25-108 or § 48-25-109 that its registered agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued within two (2) months of the change, resignation, or discontinuance;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-25-301(2)-(3)
Additionally
... continues its corporate existence but may not carry on any business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under § 48-24-105 and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-24-202(c)
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... following administrative dissolution 70.00 ... (32) Application for reinstatement following ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-11-303(a)(23), (a)(32)
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.