VT registered agent
Registered agent service in Vermont, $37 per year, within tolerance
Vermont 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 Vermont annual report, an average obligation
Vermont 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
$45 per year. Average.
Annual report of a domestic limited liability company $45.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4012
Annual report charge, corporation
$60 per year. Average.
(17) Annual report of a domestic corporation $60.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 1.22(a)(17)
Expectations set by Vermont
Expectation
As set out in the Vermont code:
... § 1655, whose business office is identical with the registered office.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 5.01; 11 V.S.A. § 4007
Performance against expectations
Does not meet. Consistently. We regard the consistency as the achievement.
Delivery of papers when the desk is unattended
Vermont 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 Vermont
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
... (4) the foreign corporation fails to inform the Secretary of State under section 15.08 or 15.09 of this title that its registered agent for service of process or registered office has changed
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(a)(3)-(4)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... or (C) deliver for filing a statement of change under section 4008 of this title within 30 days after a change has occurred in the name or address of the agent
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4117(a)(1)(B)-(C)
Additionally
... of authority appoints the Secretary of State the foreign corporation's agent for service of process in any proceeding based on a cause of action that arose during the time the foreign ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(d)
Standing in court withdrawn
... in this State without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding or raise a counterclaim, crossclaim, or affirmative defense in any court in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.02(a); 11 V.S.A. § 4119(a)(1)
Penalty, civil
... (2) an amount equal to the fees due under this chapter during the period it transacted business in this State without a certificate of authority
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4119(e)(1)-(2)
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... to the reasonable satisfaction of the Secretary of State that each ground cited in the notice of termination does not exist, and pays to the Secretary of State a reinstatement fee of $25.00 for ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(e); 11A V.S.A. § 1.22(d); 11 V.S.A. § 4012(a)(17)
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.